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The long-run effects of the 1930s HOLC "redlining" maps on place-based measures of economic opportunity and socioeconomic success

Aaronson, Daniel; Faber, Jacob; Hartley, Daniel; … - 2020

We estimate the long-run effects of the 1930s Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) redlining maps on census tract-level measures of socioeconomic status and economic opportunity from the Opportunity Atlas (Chetty et al. 2018). We use two identification strategies to identify the long-run effects...

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A new method for combining detrending techniques with application to business cycle sychchronization of the new EU members

Darvas, Zsolt; Vadas, Gábor - 2005

Decomposing output into trend and cyclical components is an uncertain exercise and depends on the method applied. It is an especially dubious task for countries undergoing large structural changes, such as transition countries. Despite their deficiencies, however, univariate detrending methods...

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Growing together: Croatia and Latvia

Gylfason, Thorvaldur; Hochreiter, Eduard - 2010

We compare and contrast the economic growth performance of Croatia and Latvia since the collapse of communism in 1991 … governance, and institutional reforms have played a significant role in raising economic output and efficiency in both Croatia … and Latvia. The EU perspective made a more significant contribution to growth in Latvia than in Croatia, even if Latvia …

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Enlargement and the EU Periphery: The Impact of Changing Market Potential

Crozet, Matthieu; Brülhart, Marius; Koenig, Pamina - 2004

We study the impact of changing relative market access in an enlarged EU on the economies of incumbent Objective 1 regions. First, we track the impact of external opening on internal spatial configurations in a three-region economic geography model. External opening gives rise to potentially...

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The Impact of EU Enlargement on European Border Regions

Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2005

EU enlargement is supposed to entail profound impact on the location of economic activities in Europe. Although there is concern about the implications of enlargement for regional disparities in the EU, corresponding empirical results are still rare. The objective of this analysis is to provide...

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European trade integration in the Baltic Sea Region - A gravity model based analysis

Paas, Tiiu; Tafenau, Egle - 2005

The paper explores regional trade integration of the countries involved in the EU eastward enlargement (EU-25) processes distinguishing the possible regional trade clusters within EU-25 that may support integration of the EU-15 and the new member states. We examine whether the gravity equation...

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Regional Integration and International Trade in the Context of EU Eastward Enlargement

Paas, Tiiu - 2003

The paper aims to explore international trade flows of the countries involved in the EU eastward enlargement processes – the current EU members (EU15) and the candidate countries (CC12). The empirical results of the study allow us to conclude that the behaviour of bilateral trade flows within...

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Austrian border regions and eastern integration: A low competitiveness - high growth paradoxon

Mayerhofer, Peter - 2002

Many regions on the EU Eastern borders have developed favourably after the opening up of the border and the implementation of association agreements with the CEECs. This was often seen as a positive sign for the further perspectives of these regions after EU enlargement. In this paper we take a...

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Ost-West-Migrationspotential: Wie groß ist es?

Straubhaar, Thomas - 2001

Wie viele Menschen aus den mittel- und osteuropäischen Ländern (MOEL) werden von dem mit dem EU-Beitritt verbundenen Recht auf Freizügigkeit Gebrauch machen und nach Westen in die "alten" EU-Länder wandern? Die vorgestellten Simulationen ergeben eine Bandbreite für das...

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Financial Liberalization and Business Cycles: The Experience of Countries in the Baltics and Central Eastern Europe

Vinhas de Souza, Lúcio - 2004

This paper extends the work of Kaminsky and Schmukler (2003) to the Baltic and Central Eastern European future Member States of the European Union, to test if the same short-run increase in cyclical volatility arising from financial integration is observed in this specific sample of ?emerging...

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