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"The purpose of this six-month study was to provide the Commission with a description of the different provisions, which exist within the aforementioned States, to implement Chapter III of the TWF Directive. This description covers both the implementation of these provisions, and also other...
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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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The number of variables related to long-run economic growth is large compared with the number of countries. Bayesian model averaging is often used to impose parsimony in the cross-country growth regression. The underlying prior is that many of the considered variables need to be excluded from...
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"Kulturelle Vielfalt und pulsierende Kreativität sind Europas Markenzeichen. Der europäische audiovisuelle Sektor, dessen Wert auf rund €96 Milliarden geschätzt wird und der über 1.100 Filmproduktionen pro Jahr erzeugt, verkörpert wahrscheinlich am besten diese Werte. Allerdings wird nur...
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"European Publishing Monitor is a 12 month project analysing the publishing industries in selected European countries ... The project will help the European Commission understand the challenges faced by the publishing industry in selected countries. ..."
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Using a normalized CES function with factor-augmenting technical progress, we estimate a supply-side system of the US economy from 1953 to 1998. Avoiding potential estimation biases that have occurred in earlier studies and putting a high emphasis on the consistency of the data set, required by...
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This paper analyses the impact of productivity developments in the United States and the euro area on the euro …-dollar exchange rate. The paper presents a new measure of relative average labour productivity (ALP), which does not suffer from the … productivity proxies. Our results indicate that the extent to which productivity can explain the euro depreciation varies with the …
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Banks do not charge explicit fees for many of the services they provide but the service payment is bundled with the offered interest rates. This output therefore has to be imputed using estimates of the opportunity cost of funds. We argue that rather than using the single short-term, low-risk...
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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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