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This paper explores price differences in the European Union (EU) pharmaceutical market, the EU's fifth largest industry. With the aim of enhancing quality of life along with industry competitiveness and R&D capability, many EU directives have been adopted to achieve a single EU-wide...
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This paper discusses the process of European institutional integration from a political-economy perspective, linking the long-standing political debate on the nature of the European project to the recent economic literature on political integration and disintegration. First, we introduce the...
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variation in these factors across Europe. Competitive pressures should lead to a convergence of regulation, but national …
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Trademark Office (USPTO), the number of financial patents in Europe has increased significantly in parallel with significant …
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In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on native jobs in fourteen Western European countries. We test whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational distribution of natives with similar education and age. We...
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We consider trade between a flexible wage America and a rigid real wage Europe. In a benchmark case, a move from … level. Entry of the unskilled South to world markets raises unemployment in Europe. But Europe's commitment to the high wage …. Mitterand's Europe chooses a high minimum wage and Reagan's America chooses a flexible wage for the unskilled. Paradoxically …
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Catholic countries of Europe pose a demographic puzzle -fertility is unprecedentedly low (total fertility=1.3) despite …
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stimulus to austerity in Europe was quite abrupt. The difference in fiscal stance helps explain the difference in the post …
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into Europe. In this context, policy mechanisms are more important than the overall insurance level provided …
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rates has been widespread in the analyses by economic policymakers both in Europe and in the United States. In this paper we … been raised by the recent policy debates in Europe and the United States: Have ex ante real rates in the United States and … Europe been high during recent years? Has there been a link between U.S. real rates and those in other countries? Can this …
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