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Michel, Philippe; Thibault, Emmanuel; Vidal, Jean-Pierre - 2004

This paper surveys intergenerational altruism in neoclassical growth models. It first examines Barro's approach to intergenerational altruism, whereby successive generations are linked by recursive altruistic preferences. Individuals have an altruistic concern only for their children, who in...

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Industry linkages and transmission shocks in Germany

Marcusson, Mats - 2010

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Firms' investment decisions in response to demand and price uncertainty

Fuss, Catherine; Vermeulen, Philip - 2004

We estimate the effect of demand and price uncertainty on firms’ investment decisions from a panel of manufacturing firms. Uncertainty measures are derived from firms’ subjective qualitative expectations. They are close to their theoretical counterparts, the variances of future demand and...

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Capital quality improvement and the sources of growth in the euro area

Sakellaris, Plutarchos; Vijselaar, Focco W. - 2004

Capital quality improvement is a general phenomenon. Therefore quality correction is needed in price indexes. There is substantial evidence of biases in the official price indexes of capital equipment. We apply to euro area statistics estimates of these biases based on US data thus deriving...

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Efficiency and risk in european banking

Fiordelisi, Franco; Marques-Ibanez, David; Molyneux, Phil - 2010

We analyze the impact of efficiency on bank risk. We also consider whether bank capital has an effect on this … relationship. We model the inter-temporal relationships among efficiency, capital and risk for a large sample of commercial banks … supporting the bad management and efficiency version of the moral hazard hypotheses. In contrast, bank efficiency improvements …

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a cross-country efficiency approach

Afonso, António; Aubyn, Miguel St. - 2010

frontier, TFP being the composite effect of efficiency scores and possibility frontier changes. We consider, for the periods …

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Key education indicators on social inclusion and efficiency - Final Project report

European Research Associates - 2006

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Resource efficiency in Europe

Kaźmierczyk, Paweł; Stenbæk Hansen, Mikkel; … - Europäische Umweltagentur; European Environment Agency - 2011

This report provides an overview of resource efficiency policies and instruments in 31 member and cooperating countries … collect, analyse and disseminate information about national experiences in developing and implementing resource efficiency … efficiency and explores similarities and differences in policies, strategies, indicators and targets, policy drivers and …

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The Future of European Long-Distance Transport - Scenario Report (IP/A/STOA/FWC-2005-28/SC27)

Schippl, Jens; Leisner, Ida; Kaspersen, Per - 2008

How could European long-distance transport - under different conditions and in different contexts - meet the following targets in 2047: • Reducing oil consumption by 80% • Reducing CO2 emissions by 60% • High level of accessibility – to offer an efficient, effective transportation system...

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