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Universities in the market for continuing higher education

Wentzel, Bettina; Oelmann, Mark - 2002

The purpose of the paper is to explain why and how American universities have taken the lead in continuing education compared to their European counterparts. In a first step we will discuss different notions of continuing education and develop an analytical framework to handle its various forms....

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Import protection, business cycles, and exchange rates: Evidence from the great recession

Bown, Chad P.; Crowley, Meredith A. - 2011

This paper uses highly detailed, quarterly data for five major industrialized economies to estimate the impact of macroeconomic fluctuations on import protection policies over 1988:Q1 - 2010:Q4. First, estimates on a pre-Great Recession sample of data provide evidence of two key relationships....

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Brain Drain - Brain Circulation or... What Else Happens or Should Happen to the Brains Some Aspects of Qualified Person Mobility/Migration

Breinbauer, Andreas - 2007

The article provides a general introductory overview of the (spatial) mobility of highly skilled/qualified persons and discusses the different terms of the mobility of the Highly Skilled, especially those of scientists. It outlines theoretical and empirical aspects of these movements and...

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Modeling the Effects of Free Trade Agreements between the EU and Canada, USA and Moldova/Georgia/Armenia on the Austrian Economy: Model Simulations for Trade Policy Analysis

Francois, Joseph; Pindyuk, Olga - 2013

This study examines the economic impact on Austria of three possible new EU free trade agreements: (1) an EU …-US agreement; (2) an EU-Canada agreement; and (3) an EUArmenia/Georgia/Moldova agreement. This is done with a computational model … economy. The US accounts for roughly one-quarter of extra-EU Austrian exports. Overall, the combined impact of the FTAs …

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The importance of special safeguard tariffs (SSG) for Brazilian sugar exports

Costa, Cinthia; Burnquis, Heloisa; Guilhoto, Joaquim - 2015

countries such as the United States (US) and the European Union (EU) bloc. A first stage involved the identification of tariff … lines (TL) for the EU and the US sugar imports from Brazil during the period of 1995 to 2013. Next, WTO notifications about … raw sugar in EU and 30% for white sugar in US in years 1999 and 2002, which the additional tariffs were highest. In period …

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Hot Air as an Implicit Side Payment Arrangement: Could a Hot Air Provision have Saved the Kyoto-Agreement?

Brandt, Urs Steiner; Svendsen, Gert Tinggaard - 2003

The purpose of this paper is to analyse whether the presence of Hot Air trading jeopardizes the environmental target of an international environmental agree-ment. We argue that Hot Air can be used as an implicit side-payment mecha-nism to actually bring about higher environmental protection...

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The Transatlantic Banking Crisis: Lessons and EU Reforms

Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2009

of 2007/08 was not really a surprise -, and the five key requirements for restoring stability and efficiency in the EU …

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Competitiveness and Convergence: Trade, Merger Control, Industry, and Innovation. Reports

Rieth, Malte; Duso, Tomaso; Gornig, Martin; Werwatz, Axel; … - In: DIW Weekly Report 9 (2019) 16/18, pp. 140-147

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Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und Konvergenz: Handel, Fusionskontrolle, Industrie, Innovationen. Berichte

Kritikos, Alexander; Gornig, Martin; Werwatz, Axel; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 86 (2019) 18, pp. 302-309

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The TPP and TTIP Trade Agreements: The International Negotiation Process

Gutu, Ioana - In: CES Working Papers 8 (2016) 1, pp. 81-92

Free trade is one of the ultimate purposes of the free trade agreements currently negotiated over the world. Two of these trials are represented by the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The common feature of these two trade deals is...

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