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Bedre-Defolie, Özlem; Calvano, Emilio - 2009

In a payment card association such as Visa, each time a consumer pays by card, the bank of the merchant (acquirer) pays an interchange fee (IF) to the bank of the cardholder (issuer) to carry out the transaction. This paper studies the determinants of socially and privately optimal IFs in a card...

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Tax co-ordination in Europe: assessing the first years of the EU-Savings Taxation Directive

Hemmelgarn, Thomas - 2009

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Finance and diversification

Manganelli, Simone; Popov, Alexander - 2010

We study how financial market efficiency affects a measure of diversification of output across industrial sectors borrowed from the portfolio allocation literature. Using data on sector-level value added for a wide cross section of countries and for various levels of disaggregation, we construct...

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Financial regulation, financial globalization and the synchronization of economic activity

Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Papaioannou, Elias; Peydró, … - 2010

We identify the effect of financial integration on international business cycle synchronization, by utilizing a confidential database on banks’ bilateral exposure and employing a country-pair panel instrumental variables approach. Countries that become more integrated over time have less...

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Financing obstacles among euro area firms

Ferrando, Annalisa; Griesshaber, Nicolas - 2011

In this study we investigate the determinants of financing obstacles using survey data on a sample of around 5000 firms from the euro area countries. This completely new survey – started at the end of 2009 - gives us the opportunity to test whether firm characteristics such as size, age,...

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Which households use banks?

Beck, Thorsten; Brown, Martin - 2011

This paper uses survey data for 29,000 households from 29 transition economies to explore how the use of banking services is related to household characteristics, bank ownership structure and the development of the financial infrastructure. At the household level we find that the holding of a...

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Progress and Obstacles in the Area of Justice and Home Affairs in an Enlarging Europe

Apap, Joanna; Carrera, Sergio - 2003

Tampere European Council. It explores why a number of Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) policy areas have experienced a greater … degree of development or convergence than others. The road to establish a genuine area of freedom, security and justice (AFSJ … overcome these tensions. The right balance between freedom, security and justice needs to be ensured. Security and law …

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Screening report Croatia : Chapter 24: Justice, freedom and security

2006

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EU-RUSSIA COMMON SPACES. PROGRESS REPORT 2008

Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion Justiz und … - 2009

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SYNTHESIS REPORT : CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE SITUATION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND ITS MEMBER STATES IN 2003

Network of Independent Experts on Fundamental Rights - 2004

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