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The impact of monetary instruments on shock absorption in EU-countries
Müller, Claudia; Buscher, Herbert S. - 1999
The main characteristic of the implementation of the European Monetary Union (EMU) is the transition from various national currencies to the Euro, the common European currency. A final fixing of the individual bilateral exchange rates of all European countries involved in the Monetary Union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442518
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Labour mobility - an adjustment mechanism in Euroland? : empirical evidence for Western Germany, France and Italy
Puhani, Patrick A. - 1999
European Union. Regression results are provided for Western Germany, France, and Italy. It is shown that labour mobility is … highest in Germany, followed by France, and Italy. However, even in Germany, the accommodation of a shock to unemployment by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443287
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International spillovers and feedback : modelling in a disequilibrium framework
Winker, Peter; Beck, Martin - 2000
first few quarters. This combination resulted in a major increase of imports from the main trading partners of West Germany … in other countries leading to a feedback on Germany. The paper provides a short overview over the basic model. The …
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Exchange rate pass-through to consumer prices : a European perspective
Hüfner, Felix P. (contributor);  … - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001701674
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Entry and competition in freight transport : the case of a prospective transalpine rail link between France and Italy
Prady, Delphine; Ullrich, Hannes - 2010
We analyze the expected effects of building a rail tunnel between Lyon and Turin on i) the market shares of the established and the new suppliers, and ii) consumer surplus. The prospective project consists of a 53km rail tunnel providing freight shippers with a new alpine path. We calibrate an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003936734
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Consumer welfare and unobserved heterogeneity in discrete choice models : the value of alpine road tunnels
Cerquera, Daniel; Ullrich, Hannes - 2010
We investigate the sensitivity of consumer surplus estimates to parametric assumptions on individual preference heterogeneity in a discrete choice framework. We compare results from a parametric random coefficients logit model and a recently proposed nonparametric sieve estimator. In particular,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008702154
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Der Einfluß der Grenznähe auf die Standortwahl von Unternehmen : eine theoretische Analyse und empirische Befunde für Ostdeutschland
Engel, Dirk - 1999
Die EU-Osterweiterung ermöglicht eine stärkere Arbeitsteilung zwischen den relativ kapitalreichen Staaten der EU und den relativ arbeitsreichen Zutrittsländern Mittel- und Osteuropas, von der insbesondere die ostdeutschen Kreise in Nähe der Grenze profitieren können. Diese Studie widmet...
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Still searching for the wage curve : evidence from Germany and Italy
Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor) - 2007
This paper investigates the functioning of regional labour markets in Italy and Germany for different employee groups … Italy. In the case of Germany, results are quite sensitive to the model specification and the employee group considered. In …. In the light of high and persistent differences in unemployment and wage rates between the North and South of Italy and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003435419
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Total costs and budgetary effects of adaptation to climate change : an assessment for the European Union
Osberghaus, Daniel; Reif, Christiane - 2010
adaptation in Europe, and in particular Germany, Finland and Italy. Furthermore, a systematic overview on fiscal aspects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003989027
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External costs of road, rail and air transport : a bottom-up approach
Weinreich, Sigurd; Rennings, Klaus; Schlomann, Barbara - 1998
This paper aims to describe the calculation of environmental and health externalities caused by air pollutants, accidents and noise from different transport modes (road, rail, air) on the route Frankfurt-Milan. The investigation is part of the QUITS project (QUITS = Quality Indicators for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441052