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A new metric for banking integration in Europe
Gropp, Reint (contributor); Kashyap, Anil K. (contributor) - 2008
Most observers have concluded that while money markets and government bond markets are rapidly integrating following the introduction of the common currency in the euro area, there is little evidence that a similar integration process is taking place for retail banking. Data on cross-border...
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Merger control as barrier to EU banking market integration
Köhler, Matthias (contributor) - 2007
In 2005, the President of the Bank of Italy blocked the cross-border acquisition of two Italian banks for ‘prudential reasons and formal errors’. Following these events, the EU Commission brought actions against Italy for infringement of the principle of the free movement of capital....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003608104
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Non-technological and technological innovation : strange dedfellows?
Schmidt, Tobias (contributor); Rammer, Christian (contributor) - 2007
marketing methods. We find that the determinants of a firm's propensity to introduce technological and non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003528845
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Product innovation and product innovation marketing : theory and microeconometric evidence
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2001
the innovating firm invests in marketing, so that consumers become aware of the newly developed product. Firms first … theoretical model are that both the marketing of a product innovation and a firm's propensity to introduce an innovation decrease … a positive effect on product innovation and marketing effort. These findings are tested empirically using survey data …
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The political cconomy of corporate tax harmonization : why do European politicians (dis)like minimum tax rates?
Osterloh, Steffen (contributor);  … - 2008
Setting minimum tax rates is a well discussed way of mitigating pressure from tax competition. This paper investigates which motives shape the support for a minimum corporate tax among politicians. We make use of a unique data base: a survey among members of the European parliament. Our results...
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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 to climate change is gaining increasing relevance in the public debate of climate policy. However, detailed and regionalised cost estimates as a basis for cost-benefit-analyses are rare. We compose available cost estimates for adaptation in Europe, and in particular Germany, Finland...
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Designing emissions trading in practice general considerations and experiences from the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS)
Heindl, Peter; Löschel, Andreas - 2012
This paper deals with designing emissions trading in practice. After a short introduction to the general idea of emissions trading, practical requirements for the introduction of an emissions trading scheme are considered, including the temporal and spatial dimension as well as administrative...
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Steuerpolitik in Deutschland : eine Halbzeitbilanz der aktuellen Legislaturperiode im Kontext europäischer Entwicklungen
Bräutigam, Rainer; Spengel, Christoph - 2015
Seit der Unternehmensteuerreform 2008/2009 haben sich die steuerlichen Rahmenbedingungen in Deutschland im Grundsatz … der EU zeigt erste Konsequenzen des steuerlichen Stillstands in Deutschland auf. Im Vergleich zu anderen europäischen … Ländern werden die steuerlichen Standortbedingungen für Unternehmen in Deutschland zusehends unattraktiver. …
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Did the introduction of the euro lead to money illusion? : empirical evidence from Germany
Bittschi, Benjamin; Duppel, Saskia - 2015
Using the introduction of the euro as a natural experiment, we provide economy-wide evidence for money illusion based on declared donations from German administrative income tax data. Our results suggest a magnitude of the money illusion effect between 2.4% and 7.6%. Compared to previous studies...
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Carbon management : evidence from case studies of German firms under the EU ETS
Heindl, Peter; Lutz, Benjamin Johannes - 2012
This paper examines the management practices of German firms with obligations under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) based on six structured in-depth interviews with managers of firms from different industries and based on survey data. The paper sheds light on management and trading...
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