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Focusing more on the evolution of the Romanian external trade and FDI inflows after 2007 - the year of Romania's EU integration - the paper provides insights in the trade and FDI inflows determinants in the context of the convergence process and also in relation to the financial global crisis....
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Statistical data display a high level of sectorial and geographical concentration in the exports of three Central European new member states of the European Union: the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. All the three export huge quantities of the products of certain sectors of engineering...
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Using entropy indices and associated bootstrap tests, we describe the distribution of economic sectors across Western European regions over the 1975-2000 period. We decompose geographic concentration into its within-country and between-country components. In addition, we estimate centre...
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The article uses continuous wavelet analysis for the study of certain export-import time series. It is a novel methodology, with the promise, inter alia, to detect features of processes that may remain hidden for traditional methodologies. The application of wavelets has been rapidly increasing...
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The article uses continuous wavelet analysis for the study of certain export-import time series. It is a novel methodology, with the promise, inter alia, to detect features of processes that may remain hidden for traditional methodologies. The application of wavelets has been rapidly increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011714213
Statistical data display a high level of sectorial and geographical concentration in the exports of three Central European new member states of the European Union: the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. All the three export huge quantities of the products of certain sectors of engineering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345028
Hungarian Abstract: A humanitárius problémaként induló menekültválság mára Európa-szerte biztonságpolitikai kérdéssé alakult. A migrációs válságot egy sor populista politikai hang nemcsak az egyes országok létét fenyegető, de az egész kontinenst és az Európai Unió...
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slightly decrease over time. There is a negligible loss in welfare, however, from immediately setting the R&D subsidy to its …
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We study the effects of German unification in a model with capital accumulation, skill differences and a welfare state …. Absent a welfare state, we observe an investment boom, depressed output and employment conditions. Capital owners and high …-skilled agents are willing to give up to 4% of per-capita consumption to favor unification. When a welfare state exists the …
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This paper calculates the quantitative significance of the welfare effects of wage compression in Sweden. This is done … compression lead to large welfare losses, since wage compression creates costly unemployment among low-skilled workers. This … welfare loss can be significantly reduced (but not eliminated) if firms and unions bargain over efficient labor contracts. In …
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