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This paper uses highly detailed, quarterly data for five major industrialized economies to estimate the impact of macroeconomic fluctuations on import protection policies over 1988:Q1 - 2010:Q4. First, estimates on a pre-Great Recession sample of data provide evidence of two key relationships....
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The paper examines the interdependencies of financialisation and working conditions by exploring the comparative findings of a micro-level survey on household income, household debt, and working conditions which was conducted in five European countries representing different institutional and...
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In September 2008, the EU replaced national-level regulation on Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs) in pesticides with … of this harmonization on both intra- and extra-EU imports in an original empirical contribution to this literature. We … for adverse effects of regulatory heterogeneity on intra-EU trade in the pre-harmonization period, which questions the …
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The development of renewable energy sources is central to the goal of gaining independence from conventional fossil fuels and achieving a sustainable energy supply. As these technologies are not yetfully developed and due to multi-dimensional selection environments cannotalwayscompete with...
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inflationary expectations as well as on inflationary perceptions has been collected in a unified way on an EU-wide basis for … inflation during the coming 12 months. The analysis covers all EU member states that have relevant data. We examine the forecast …
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While current instruments of EU economic policy coordination helped stave off a full-scale depression, the post-2007 … global financial and economic crisis has revealed a number of weaknesses in the Stability and Growth Pact, the EU framework … account of the reform proposals adopted by the Commission on 29 September 2010. In our view, the current system of EU rules is …
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Since at least the 1960s, the European Union (EU) has offered various kinds of non-reciprocal trade preferences for … researchers as well as in policy circles. The aim of this paper is therefore to analyse the impact of the EU's non …
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This study uses aggregated municipality data, for the years 2001 to 2009, to explore whether direct payments to farmers affect agricultural employment in Swedish municipalities. The decoupling reform in 2005 included a new grassland support payment accompanied by management obligations that had...
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This paper explores the evolution and determinants of public support for the euro since its creation in 1999 until the end of 2017, thereby covering the pre-crisis experience of the euro, the crisis years and the recent recovery. Using uniquely large macro and micro databases and applying...
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with a set of recommendations for the fiscal governance of the EU. …
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