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A compass to guide EU policy in support of business competitiveness

Erixon, Fredrik; Guinea, Oscar; Lamprecht, Philipp; … - 2022

European companies in world markets more successful. However, since the end of the Lisbon Agenda in 2010, economic … competitive and dynamic knowledge-economy in the world". The impression now is that Europe is on the retreat and the current … policy. With the strong economic headwinds facing Europe and the world, the EU needs to pursue structural economic reforms …

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An eclectic approach to real exchange rate: Determination

Cerveró, Susana G. - 1999

We present a model of bilateral real exchange rate determination based on different theories that can be combined into a common statistical framework. Although eclectic, the approach is successfully used to shape a final specification which performs surprisingly well when out of sample exercises...

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Choice over time

Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - 2007

they are really the most challenging ones for conventional theory. New developments are emerging both at the theoretical …

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Ökonometrische Analyse der Entscheidungspraxis des Bundeskartellamtes

Lauk, Martina - 2003

Die Arbeit untersucht Entscheidungen des Bundeskartellamtes in den Bereichen .Miss-brauchsaufsicht. und .Wettbewerbsbeschränkende Vereinbarungen.. Die hier interessierende Frage ist, inwieweit die Entscheidungen der Kartell- behörde durch Kenntnis des Vorwurfs und einiger beobachtbarer...

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Cross-Country Ethical Dilemmas in Business: A Descriptive Framework

Ferro, Nicoletta - 2004

As businesses span the globe, multinational and translational companies conduct their business operations in foreign settings, especially in developing countries and in countries in transition from Communist regimes. This poses new challenges to expatriate managers and to home-based staff in...

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The growth effect of democracy: is it heterogenous and how can it be estimated?

Persson, Torsten; Tabellini, Guido - 2007

We estimate the effect of political regime transitions on growth with semi-parametric methods, combining difference in differences with matching, that have not been used in macroeconomic settings. Our semi-parametric estimates suggest that previous parametric estimates may have seriously...

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Crude oil price determinants

Möbert, Jochen - 2007

Based on monthly observations, I specify an econometric model capturing the driving forces behind the crude oil price series in recent years. A large set of covariates, such as supply and demand variables as well as futures market variables, is used to test the impact on the crude oil price....

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A hierarchical procedure for the combination of forecasts

Costantini, Mauro; Pappalardo, Carmine - 2009

This paper proposes a strategy to increase the efficiency of forecast combination. Given the availability of a wide range of forecasts for the same variable of interest, our goal is to apply combining methods to a restricted set of models. To this aim, a hierarchical procedure based on an...

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Growth and relative living standards: Testing barriers to riches on post-war panel data

Minford, Patrick; Meenagh, David; Wang, Jiang - 2007

The effect of business tax and regulation on growth, together with potential effects of government spending on education and R&D, is embodied in a model of a small open economy with growth choices. The structural model is estimated on post-war panel data for 76 countries and the bootstrap is...

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Explaining import variety and quality: The role of the income distribution

Choi, Yo Chul; Hummels, David; Xiang, Chong - 2010

In this paper we examine whether a generalized version of Flam and Helpman's (1987) model of vertical differentiation can reconcile three facts. One, countries import only a subset of available varieties. Two, import prices vary across exporters within narrow product categories. Three, US growth...

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