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Employment Impacts of EU Biofuels Policy: Combining Bottom-up Technology Information and Sectoral Market Simulations in an Input-output Framework

Mongelli, Ignazio; Löschel, Andreas; Neuwahl, Frederik; … - 2008

This paper analyses the employment consequences of policies aimed to support biofuels in the European Union. The … thereby increase security of the European energy supply on the other hand. The employment impacts of increasing biofuels … recent Renewable Energy Roadmap. Employment effects are assessed in an input-output framework taking into account bottom …

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Does Innovation Stimulate Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis Using Comparable Micro-Data From Four European Countries

Harrison, Rupert; Jaumandreu Balanzo, Jordi; Mairesse, … - 2008

This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these … firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to …

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The effective average tax burden in the European Union and the USA: a computer-based calculation and comparison with the model of the European tax analyzer

Jacobs, Otto H.; Spengel, Christoph - 1999

In this paper we present a computer-based model (so-called European Tax Analyzer) for the international computation and comparison of company tax burdens. The methodology follows the forward-looking concepts for the measurement of effective average tax rates (EATR) on the basis of a model-firm....

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Effective marginal tax rates for US investors in Germany and Europe : an analysis of recent tax reforms in Germany

Spengel, Christoph - 1999

In this paper the impact of the corporate tax systems of the 15 EU-member states on the investment and the financing decision of an US multinational corporation is analysed. The calculation of the resulting effective marginal tax rates (EMTR) closely follow the model of King and Fullerton. There...

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International spillovers and feedback: Modelling in a disequilibrium framework

Winker, Peter; Beck, Martin - 2000

German unifikation hit the West German economy in a prosperous and appeared as a huge demand shock at least for the first few quarters. This combination resulted in a major increase of imports from the main trading partners of West Germany, which may have helped to cushion recessionary trends...

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Modeling Asset Returns: A Comparison of Theoretical and Empirical Models

Schröder, Michael; Lüders, Erik - 2004

large economies, USA, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan. The empirical results show that although the pure NGARCH …

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The Determinants of Capital Structure: Some Evidence from Banks

Heider, Florian; Gropp, Reint E. - 2008

This paper documents that standard cross-sectional determinants of firm leverage also apply to the capital structure of large banks in the United States and Europe. We find a remarkable consistency in sign, significance and economic magnitude. Like non-financial firms, banks appear to have...

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A European Perspective on Recent Trends in U.S. Climate Policy

Moslener, Ulf; Sturm, Bodo - 2008

Without participation of the United States, the world?s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, mitigation of global climate change seems hardly conceivable. Despite the U.S. rejection of the Kyoto Protocol and the reluctance of the Bush administration to engage in Post-Kyoto negotiations, recent...

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International Stock Return Predictability Under Model Uncertainty

Schrimpf, Andreas - 2008

This paper examines return predictability when the investor is uncertain about the right state variables. A novel feature of the model averaging approach used in this paper is to account for finite-sample bias of the coefficients in the predictive regressions. Drawing on an extensive...

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Zum Einfluß realer effektiver Wechselkurse auf die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit

Schumacher, Dieter - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 61 (1992) 1/2, pp. 27-48

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