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Agglomeration, Integration, and Territorial Authority Scale in a System of Trading Cities. Centralisation versus Devolution
Del Gatto, Massimo - 2004
literature on integration/agglomeration and that on city size and formation, we show that: i) devolution results in over … economic (i.e. intensity of trade) integration, the higher is the magnitude of the inefficiency. From a theoretical point of …
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Trade liberalisation, changing forest management and roundwood trade in Europe
Kangas, Kari - 2001
This paper analyses the development of roundwood trade in Europe in the context of changes in supply and trading patterns due to liberalisation in European transitional economies (CEEC), nature-oriented forest management as well as prospective EU enlargement. First, it is studied whether...
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Lessons from the Southern enlargement of the EU for the environmental dimensions of Eastern enlargement in particular for Poland
Kuik, Onno J.; Oosterhuis, Frans H. - 2001
This paper analyses the environmental dimensions the past accession of Greece, Portugal and Spain to the EU in order to draw lessons for the current accession of countries of Central and Eastern Europe. A distinction is made between scale, composition and technique effects. Two major conclusions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608821
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“Spot, Bilateral and Futures Trading in Electricity Markets. Implications for Stability”
Termini, Valeria; Cavallo, Laura - 2007
mandatory pool with a regulated market for electricity derivatives, that allows to hedge price volatility and to mitigate market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312369
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The Struggle of Becoming Established in a Deprived Inner-City Neighbourhood
May, David - 2003
The theory of established-outsider figurations developed by Norbert Elias is a use-ful tool for examining deprived neighbourhoods. The case of this paper is Dort-mund Nordstadt in Germany, an old inner-city neighbourhood which from its early days has housed the newly arrived immigrants. Elias...
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Technology and bilateral trade
Eaton, Jonathan; Kortum, Samuel S. - 1997
We develop a Ricardian model to explore the role of trade in spreading the benefits of innovation. The theory delivers an equation for bilateral trade that, on its surface, resembles a gravity specification, but identifies underlying parameters of technology. We estimate the equation using trade...
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Market power, productivity and the EU single market program: An ex-post assessment on Italian firm level data
Bottasso, Anna; Sembenelli, Alessandro - 1998
project. Overall, these results are consistent with the long standing view that economic integration reduces firms' market …
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The public management of risk: separating ex ante and ex post monitors
Hiriart, Yolande; Martimort, David; Pouyet, Jerome - 2010
When a firm undertakes risky activities, the conflict between social and private incentives to implement safety care requires public intervention which can take the form of both monetary incentives but also ex ante or ex post monitoring, i.e., before or after an accident occurs. We delineate the...
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Formation of Segregated and Integrated Groups
Watts, Alison - 2006
empty group is added to a segregated stable partition, then integration may occur. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312309
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Indicators of Migrants’ Socio-Professional Integration
Gregori, Emilio - 2006
Understanding and monitoring the diversity which lies under migrants' socio-professional integration trends is a … integration of migrant people in Italy, based on data collected from administrative and official sources. This work was carried … of the theoretical concept of migrants, foreigners and integration was discussed, as well as the matters concerning the …
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