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Mapping the impacts of recent natural disasters and technological accidents in Europe

Saurí, David (contributor); Milego, Roger (contributor); … - Europäische Umweltagentur; European Environment Agency - 2004

This is the first EEA publication to address the impacts of natural disasters and technological accidents across Europe. Focusing on major events between 1998 and 2002, the report adds value to existing studies by bringing together available information on their human and economic costs and...

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FOREST FIRES: causes and contributing factors in Europe

Bassi, Samuela; Kettunen, Manuela - 2008

The present study aims to provide a critical analysis of the causes that lead to the most relevant recent forest fires events in the EU, focusing in particular on Southern European countries. In particular, the study assesses to what extent forest fires have been influenced by forest management,...

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Evaluation of European Commission’s Cooperation with Nicaragua 1998-2008 : Final Report ; Volume I – Main report

Aide à la Décision Economique, … - 2009

between post-disaster relief, reconstruction and development (LRRD). It further assesses the use of the budget support …

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Inflation, factor substitution and growth

Klump, Rainer - 2003

Recent empirical studies on the inflation-growth-relationship underline that inflation has negative growth effects already under relatively modest rates. Most contributions to monetary growth theory, however, have difficulties in explaining such a pattern. It is shown in this paper that this...

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Public finances and long-term growth in Europe

De Ávila, Diego Romero; Strauch, Rolf - 2003

In Lisbon the European Council proclaimed a European growth strategy. It considers an average economic u0093growth rate of around 3 percent as a realistic prospect for the coming yearsu0094 and assigns public finances an important role in the process of achieving this goal. This paper addresses...

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The role of product market regulations in the process of structural change

Messina, Julián - 2003

The sectoral allocation of labor differs considerably across developed economies, even in the presence of similar patterns of structural change. A general equilibrium model that captures the stylized facts of structural change is presented. In this framework, product market regulations raise...

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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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Distributional dynamics under smoothly state-dependent pricing

Costain, James; Nakov, Anton - 2011

Starting from the assumption that firms are more likely to adjust their prices when doing so is more valuable, this paper analyzes monetary policy shocks in a DSGE model with firm-level heterogeneity. The model is calibrated to retail price microdata, and inflation responses are decomposed into...

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Optimal dynamic risk sharing when enforcement is a decision variable

Koeppl, Thorsten V. - 2003

decision problem of using self-governance for risk sharing or governance through enforcement provided by these institutions … prevent ﬁrst-best risk sharing, but never optimal to provide incentives exclusively via this technology. Commitment problems …

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Growth expectations, capital flows and international risk sharing

Castrén, Olli; Miller, Marcus; Stiegert, Roger - 2003

international equity transactions that accentuate the role of international risk sharing as a factor for the macroeconomic response … shock affecting only one country. Efficient global risk-sharing imply that expected productivity gains in one country will … for the productivity gains can further increase the risk exposure of foreign shareholders. The model is calibrated to show …

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