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Post-Crisis Bank Behavior : Lessons From Mercosur

Sanya, Sarah - 2010

Did the occurrence of systemic banking crises in the 1990s and 2000s significantly alter the behavior of banks in the Mercosur? The objective of this paper is to answer this question by analyzing changes in bank behavior after crises in the Mercosur region. To our knowledge, this is the first...

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Performance of Western Hemisphere Trading Blocs : A Cost-Corrected Gravity Approach

Croce, Enzo - 2004

We study the performance of the four Western Hemisphere trading blocs during the period 1978-2001. For the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), trade integration outweighed trade diversion; for MERCOSUR, increased integration and trade diversion went hand in hand; for the Central American...

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International taxation and Luxembourg's economy

Mooij, Ruud A. de; Prihardini, Dinar; Pflugbeil, Antje; … - 2020

Luxembourg receives ample investment from multinational corporations, in part due to some attractive features in its … international tax rules. Around 95 percent of these foreign investments pass through Luxembourg via companies performing holding and …/or intra-group financing activities. While their contribution to Luxembourg's economy is modest relative to their large overall …

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Structural unemployment in Luxembourg : bad luck or rational choice?

Gbohoui, William - 2019

Luxembourg. The young, low-skilled, and non-EU migrants are found to be the most vulnerable groups in the labor market. In …

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Trade Liberalization and Tax Reform in the Southern Mediterranean Region

Abed, George T. - 1998

The European Union’s Association Agreements with several countries in the Southern Mediterranean Region (SMR) aim to promote deeper economic integration between the SMR and the EU by establishing a free trade area in twelve years. Because a large share of the SMR countries’ total imports...

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Impact of European Union Association Agreementson Mediterranean Countries

Ghesquière, Henri C. - 1998

By establishing free trade for industrial products in 12 years, the European Union’s Association Agreements with countries in the Mediterranean region seek to promote accelerated economic growth. This paper reviews the literature and evaluates the economic benefits and costs for Tunisia,...

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Selected Transition and Mediterranean Countries : An Institutional Primeron EMU and EU Relations

Feldman, Robert Alan - 1998

Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has a number of institutional implications for the transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe and selected Mediterranean countries that aspire to join the European Union (EU). After describing the current institutional framework for their relations with...

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Fiscal Revenues in South Mediterranean Arab Countries : Vulnerabilities and Growth Potential

Nashashibi, Karim A. - 2002

This paper reviews the fiscal revenue performance of Southern Mediterranean Arab countries (SMCs) over the last decade and compares this performance with selected middle income and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. These revenues have been declining over the...

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Demand Patterns in France, Germany, and Belgium : Can We Explain the Differences?

Lebrun, Igor - 2014

core. This paper puts recent demand patterns in France, Germany, and Belgium into historical perspective. We find that …

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Risk Neutrality and the Two-Tier Foreign Exchange Market : Evidence from Belgium

International Monetary Fund - 1989

In this paper we develop and test a model of a utility maximizing representative agent operating in the Belgium-Luxembourg … is not rejected in some additional tests relating the Belgium-Luxembourg two-tier market: spread to some Belgian policy …

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