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Sectorial Border Effects in the European Single Market : an explanation through industrial concentration
Cafiso, Gianluca - 2009
The purpose of this paper is to explain the relation between the Border Effect and industrial concentration. This is achieved by founding this relation on the Home Market Effect and testing the robustness of this foundation through an application to the European Single Market. A sectorial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969243
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Is China climbing up the quality ladder? : estimating cross country differences in product quality using Eurostat's COMEXT trade database
Pula, Gábor; Santabárbara, Daniel - 2011
There is an ongoing debate in the literature about the quality content of Chinese exports and to what extent China imposes a threat to the market positions of advanced economies. While China's export structure is very similar to that of the advanced world, its export unit values are well below...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008935837
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Foreign direct investment and environmental taxes
De Santis, Roberto A. (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper studies the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on environmental policy stringency in a two-country model with trade costs, where FDI could be unilateral and bilateral and both governments address local pollution through environmental taxes. We show that FDI does not give rise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003782672
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Tax thy neighbour : corporate tax pass-through into downstream consumer prices in a monetary union
Dedola, Luca; Osbat, Chiara; Reinelt, Timo - 2022
We estimate the response of product-level retail prices to changes in the corporate tax rates paid by wholesale producers (pass-through). Under perfect competition in goods and factor markets, pass-through of corporate taxes should be zero, and their incidence mainly falls on factor prices. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013277185
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Deeper, wider and more competitive? : monetary integration, Eastern enlargement and competitiveness in the European Union
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. (contributor);  … - 2007
competition drives less productive firms out the market, thereby increasing average productivity as well as reducing average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635984
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Understanding inter-industry wage structures in the euro area
Genre, Véronique; Kohn, Karsten; Momferatou, Daphne - 2009
firm-related characteristics (e.g., capital intensity, productivity) contribute significantly. However, considerable wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832004
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The effect of durable goods and ICT on euro area productivity growth?
Jalava, Jukka (contributor);  … - 2008
and productivity change; when expenditure on consumer durables is recorded as capital investment. The capitalization of … consumer durables impacts both the levels and growth rates of the capital stock, productivity and GDP. Our growth accounting … productivity growth in 1995-2004. ICT's impacts were larger, i.e., one-fifth of GVA growth and one-sixth of labour productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790945
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Banking sector output measurement in the euro area : a modified approach
Colangelo, Antonio; Inklaar, Robert - 2010
Banks do not charge explicit fees for many of the services they provide but the service payment is bundled with the offered interest rates. This output therefore has to be imputed using estimates of the opportunity cost of funds. We argue that rather than using the single short-term, low-risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003973506
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How is real convergence driving nominal convergence in the new EU Member States?
Lein-Rupprecht, Sarah M. (contributor);  … - 2007
prices with respect to the euro area productivity growth and increased trade openness. Productivity growth can have a … productivity growth a positive one on price level convergence with respect to the euro area …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003599436
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An automatic leading indicator, variable reduction and variable selection methods using small and large datasets : forecasting the industrial production growth for euro area econom...
Camba-Méndez, Gonzalo; Kapetanios, George; Papailias, Fotis - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516546