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Institutional change in search of the market: The case of Slovenia

Glismann, Hans H.; Horn, Ernst-Jürgen; Stanovnik, Peter - 1995

Six main characteristics of an economic order are discussed and empirically evaluated for the case of Slovenia. All of them pertain to the institutional setting ab urbe condita; they comprise the legal and jurisdictional situation, the role of private property, the institutionalised strive at...

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Macroeconomic policy coordination in Europe: An agnostic view

Scheide, Joachim - 2003

Coordination is a fundamental principle for economic policy in the EU. There is a consensus that soft coordination (exchange of information, general guidelines for economic policy) is useful. Whether stabilization policies should be coordinated is another matter. Against the background of the...

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Promoting labour market integration of refugees with trade preferences: Beyond the EU-Jordan compact

Temprano Arroyo, Heliodoro - 2018

Trade preferences provide a potential policy tool for supporting refugee employment in countries of first asylum. Thus, in the context of the EU-Jordan Compact agreed in 2016, the EU eased the rules of origin for Jordanian exporters employing a minimum share of Syrian refugees. The use of trade...

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The euro's trade effect under cross-sectional heterogeneity and stochastic resistance

Herwartz, Helmut; Weber, Henning - 2010

This paper investigates if the euro's effect on euro-area trade differs across trade sectors and across country pairs, and to what degree heterogeneity matters for estimating the aggregate euro effect. Time-varying latent variables, which are specific to each sector in each country pair, control...

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Intergenerational redistribution with asymmetric information: The case of non-observable savings

Lorz, Jens Oliver - 1999

This paper analyzes intergenerational redistribution in a 2-period overlapping- generations model that allows for heterogeneous labor productivities within the working generation. In each period, the government decides about redistributive transfers to maximize the aggregate utility of the...

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The political economy of intra- and intergenerational redistribution with asymmetric information

Lorz, Jens Oliver - 1999

In this paper redistribution policy is analyzed in a 2-period overlapping generations model with heterogeneous individuals and asymmetric information between the government and the private sector. Individuals of the same generation differ with respect to their labor productivity. In each period,...

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Social security and redistribution within generations in an overlapping generations model

Lorz, Jens Oliver - 1999

An overlapping generations model is set up in this paper to analyze social security policy in a representative democracy with asymmetric information. The model considers not only redistribution between generations but also redistribution within generations according to individual labor incomes....

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Rules for border-crossing factor movements

Siebert, Horst - 2007

firms, the flow of technology and the migration of people. These rules have to make sure that individuals, individual … been introduced to ease patent applications. TRIPS protects intellectual property. Rules for labor migration relate to the … a pecking order between trade, capital flows and migration. …

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Does migration raise agricultural investment? An empirical analysis for rural Mexico

Böhme, Marcus - 2013

endogeneity of migration through an instrumental variable estimation our empirical results show that international migration has a … the capital obtained from international migration only to overcome liquidity constraints for subsistence production … whereas migration itself seems to be the superior investment option compared to other productive activities such as livestock …

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Heterogeneous immigrants and foreign direct investment: The role of language skills

Lücke, Matthias; Stöhr, Tobias - 2015

We investigate the interplay of language skills and immigrant stocks in determining bilateral FDI out-stocks of OECD reporting countries. Applying a Poisson panel estimator to 2004-2011 data, we find a robust positive effect of bilateral immigrants on bilateral FDI - provided that residents of...

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