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Are Wages in Southern Europe more Flexible? The Effects of a Cohort Size on European Earnings
Brunello, Giorgio; Lauer, Charlotte - 2005
study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size …
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EU enlargement and immigration
Kraus, Margit; Schwager, Robert - 2000
This paper assesses the consequences of EU enlargement for East West migration. In the theoretical part, we identify several factors in addition to the reduction of moving costs by which EU membership influences migration. Specifically, EU accession affects income gaps. Moreover, if EU...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297670
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The threat of systemic risk in banking: evidence for Europe
Schüler, Martin - 2002
are used as a measure for interdependencies among European banks, and hence for the systemic risk potential in Europe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298100
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Systemic Risk in European Banking: Evidence from Bivariate GARCH Models
Schüler, Martin; Schröder, Michael - 2003
This paper attempts to assess the Europe-wide systemic risk in banking. We employ a bivariate GARCH model to estimate … interdependencies amongst the banking business in Europe and hence for the systemic risk potential. We employ several tests to assess …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298129
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Cartel overcharges and the deterrent effect of EU competition law
Smuda, Florian - 2012
This paper examines cartel overcharges for the European market. Using a sample of 191 overcharge estimates and several parametric and semi-parametric estimation procedures, the impact of different cartel characteristics and the market environment on the magnitude of overcharges is analyzed. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010309808
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Lost in Translation: Empirical Evidence for Liability of Foreignness as a Barrier to Knowledge Spillovers
Sofka, Wolfgang; Schmidt, Tobias - 2006
Entering host country networks of knowledge flows (new competencies, innovative technologies, and lead-market knowledge) is a major rationale of multinational firms for investing abroad. Foreign firms find it difficult to overcome cultural and social barriers which make their foreign engagements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297509
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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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Allokationseffekte der Besteuerung im Rahmen des Fremdvergleichsgrundsatzes und des Einheitsprinzips
Schröer, André - 2002
businesses in Europe following the unitary pinciple, we specify conditions under which an efficient allocation of resources …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297910
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Human capital investment strategies in Europe
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2011
The paper analyses alternative investment policies and their consequences for the evolution of human capital in Europe … diversity and the other a unified Europe. Our results indicate that investments need to be directed more generally to people of … younger ages in Europe. If equality is important enough additional investment should specifically be directed to disadvantaged …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304730
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Tax competition in Europe: Europe in competition with other world regions?
Streif, Frank - 2015
Corporate tax levels have fallen substantially in Europe during the last decades. A broad literature has identified tax … whether the decline in corporate tax levels in Europe is mainly driven by tax competition between EU member states or by … evidence for tax competition within Europe, whereas there is no robust evidence that European countries compete with countries …
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