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The competitiveness effects of the EU climate policy
Peterson, Sonja (contributor); Klepper, Gernot (contributor) - 2008
EU has decided to reduce its GHG emissions by 20% relative to 1990 until the year 2020. These reductions will even rise … competitiveness as a priority area for EU policy and there is some concern about the competitiveness effects of EU climate policy. We … use the multi-sector, multi-region computable general equilibrium model DART to assess the impacts of the recent EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777229
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Innovation and productivity in European industries
Pianta, Mario (contributor); Vaona, Andrea (contributor) - 2006
The labour productivity impact of innovation is investigated in this paper combining neo-Schumpeterian insights on the variety of innovation, with the importance of industrial structures and firm size; two models are proposed for explaining productivity and export success in European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003347531
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Firm size and innovation in European manufacturing
Vaona, Andrea (contributor); Pianta, Mario (contributor) - 2006
The paper investigates the differences between small, medium-sized and large firms regarding their performance in the introduction of new products and processes. After a review of the relevant literature, two models are proposed and tested in search for different business strategies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003347554
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Integrating biofuels into the DART model
Kretschmer, Bettina (contributor);  … - 2008
effects of a 10% biofuel target in the EU are analyzed. -- Biofuels ; CGE model ; climate policy ; EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793559
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Modeling the dynamics of EU economic sentiment indicators : an interaction-based approach
Ghonghadze, Jaba (contributor); Lux, Thomas (contributor) - 2009
to a selected data set on survey-based expectations from the rich EU business and consumer survey database for twelve …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003811852
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Exchange-rate misalignments in duopoly : the case of Airbus and Boeing
Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès (contributor);  … - 2009
We examine the effect of exchange-rate misalignments on competition in the market for large commercial aircraft. This market is a duopoly where players compete in dollar-denominated prices while one of them, Airbus, incurs costs mostly in euros. We construct and calibrate a simulation model to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003811853
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Modes of international sourcing and the competitiveness of firms : an analysis of European survey data
Neureiter, Marcus; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2009
We draw on a recent survey of European companies to differentiate between alternative modes of international outsourcing as possible determinants of market, cost and knowledge-related aspects of the competitiveness of firms. We find that internalized modes are often superior to outside options,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003882140
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Outsourcing motives, location choice and labour market implications : an empirical analysis for European countries
Neureiter, Marcus; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2009
We use data on motives of international outsourcing and location choices from a recent survey of European companies to assess the labour market repercussions at home. Employing Tobit models we differentiate between job losses as well as job creation for high and low skilled employees at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872028
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On the (de)stabilizing effects of news shocks
Winkler, Roland; Wohltmann, Hans-Werner - 2009
This paper analyzes the impacts of news shocks on macroeconomic volatility. Whereas anticipation amplifies volatility in any purely forward-looking model, such as the baseline New Keynesian model, the results are ambiguous when including a backward-looking component. In addition to these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872035