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The discontinuous integration of Western Europe's heterogeneous market for corporate control from 1995 to 2007

Frey, Rainer - 2010

As, in Europe, many institutional reforms have been undertaken to establish an economic union, it can be expected that … span from 1995 to 2007. The continued lack of full integration is also evidenced by heterogeneity inside Europe. This … existing lack of integration in Europe may not be a result of missing institutional reforms. In the Poisson estimations, the …

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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 …

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Youth Unemployment in Europe: What to Do about It?

Eichhorst, Werner; Hinte, Holger; Rinne, Ulf - 2013

Youth unemployment has become a severe economic and societal problem in many European countries. This paper gives an overview of the current situation and assesses different policy options. It emphasizes the role of stronger intra-EU mobility of young workers, policies to make vocational...

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Why be wasteful when preserving a valuable resource? A review article on the cost-effectiveness of European biodiversity conservation policy

Wätzold, Frank; Schwerdtner, Kathleen - 2004

compensation payments for conservation measures as the two most relevant conservation policy instruments in Europe. Progress has …

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Driving Forces of Venture Capital Investments in Europe: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis

Schertler, Andrea - 2003

Using dynamic panel estimations, this paper identifies driving forces of venture capital activity for Western European countries. Driving forces might be the liquidity of stock markets, human capital endowment, and labour market rigidities. The paper shows that these factors do not affect...

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Financial Market Integration in the US: Lessons for Europe?

Buch, Claudia M. - 2000

integration within the US tends to exceed that within Europe. Implications of barriers to the free mobility of capital for …

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Latent and actual entrepreneurship in Europe and the US: some recent developments

Thurik, A. Roy; Grilo, Isabel - 2005

This paper uses 2004 survey data from the 15 old EU member states and the US to explain country differences in latent and actual entrepreneurship. Other than demographic variables such as gender, age and education, the set of covariates includes the perception by respondents of administrative...

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Determinants of entrepreneurial engagement levels in Europe and the US

Thurik, A. Roy; Grilo, Isabel - 2005

Determinants from different streams of literature and spanning different disciplines are used to explain entrepreneurial decisions. A multinomial logit model and survey data from the old 15 EU member states, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and the US are used to establish the effect of...

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Entrepreneurial engagement levels in the European Union

Grilo, Isabel; Thurik, A. Roy - 2005

entrepreneurial engagement levels. Country effects suggest a clear underperformance of Europe relative to the US in less mature …

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Sectoral explanations of employment in Europe: the role of services

D'Agostino, Antonello; Serafini, Roberta; Ward, Melanie E. - 2006

sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an increase in … the share of service jobs in Europe relative to the US persists. Understanding the main factors behind this gap is key to … achieving higher employment levels in Europe. This paper focuses on the role of barriers in the EU-15 which may have hindered …

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