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Business Cycles and FDI: Evidence from German Sectoral Data

Buch, Claudia M.; Lipponer, Alexander - 2005

Globalization has affected business cycle developments in OECD countries and has increased activities of firms across national borders. This paper analyzes whether these two developments are linked. We use a new firm-level dataset on the foreign activities of German firms to test whether foreign...

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The role of labor markets for euro area monetary policy

Christoffel, Kai; Kuester, Keith; Linzert, Tobias - 2009

into monitoring euro area wage dynamics and which appears to treat some of the other labor market information as less …In this paper, we explore the role of labor markets for monetary policy in the euro area in a New Keynesian model in … labor market would alter the business cycle behavior and the transmission of monetary policy. We find that while a lower …

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The European single market: bad news for developing countries?

Gundlach, Erich - 1993

Developing Countries have been particularly worried by the single-market-program since the EC absorbs more than a third … market. With the exception of agricultural economies specialized on specific products, the net welfare effect of EC-1992 will …

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Latin America and EU widening to the East: possible effects on trade and investments

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 1997

Pending EU widening to the East has revived concerns in Lalin America that Europe may become more inward-looking. However, booming trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) relations between current EU members and Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) are unlikely to harm I^itin...

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Economic integration and FDI: an empirical analysis of foreign investment in the EU and in Central and Eastern Europe

Brenton, Paul; DiMauro, Francesca; Lücke, Matthias - 1998

Recent evidence suggests that regional economic integration provides an important stimulus not only to trade, but also to FDI. In contrast, the available theory on FDI does not yet provide empirically testable propositions on the effects of concurrent trade and investment liberalisation....

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European integration and changing trade patterns: the case of the Baltic states

Laaser, Claus-Friedrich; Schrader, Klaus - 2002

The analysis of Baltic regional trade patterns reveals that during the nineties the Baltic states made significant progress to integrate into the Western European division of labour although a significant share of (transit) trade with Russia remained. In view of this development, history seems...

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The Baltic States' integration into the European division of labour

Laaser, Claus-Friedrich; Schrader, Klaus - 2004

common market which pays particular attention to close trade relations with their immediate neighbours in the Baltic Sea …

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A simple decomposition of the variance of output growth across countries

Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2011

This paper outlines a simple regression-based method to decompose the variance of an aggregate time series into the variance of its components, which is then applied to measure the relative contributions of productivity, hours per worker, and employment to cyclical output growth across a panel...

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Impact of Europe Agreements on FDI in developing countries

Agarwal, Jamuna Prasad - 1994

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Stylized facts of Euroland's business cycle

Döpke, Jörg - 1998

The paper presents some stylized facts of Euroland's business cycle using aggregated data. The main results are: The determination of turning points in Euroland's business cycle is not very sensitive to the detrending method used, although the level of the recent output gap depends on it....

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