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The EU’s southern neighbourhood : macroeconomic performance and equity.
Temprano Arroyo, Heliodoro - 2014
Four years after the start of the Arab Spring uprisings, the macroeconomic situation in the EU’s Southern Neighbourhood remains weak and vulnerable and the recent intensification of civil strife and military conflicts is exacerbating this economic malaise. Macroeconomic performance may not...
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Has the EU’s leading position in global trade changed since the crisis?
Galar, Malgorzata - 2015
The global crisis has taken its toll on the EU’s prime position in international trade. While the EU still has the largest relative market shares, its position has deteriorated since the crisis, much more so than the US, and its comparative advantage in knowledge-intensive goods has been...
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Reshaping the Chinese growth model – a formidable challenge of the 12th five-year plan
Melander, Annika; Rudolf, Moritz - 2011
Private consumption is a key component in the rebalancing of growth that China is seeking, and a challenging one. Not …. Understanding what drove the consumption share down to a mere 36% of GDP in China is thus vital. This brief explores the many … reasons for the high precautionary savings that followed in the wake of the reform process in China. In particular, the …
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Is China transitioning to a lower growth plateau?
Bertoldi, Moreno; Melander, Annika - 2013
China's economy slowed significantly in the first three quarters of 2012 and questions have been raised on a possible … understand what is driving this slowdown and how lasting it may be given China's importance as an engine for global growth. Is …
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The European Union and Russia: Close Neighbours, Global Players, Strategic Partners
Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion Außenbeziehungen - 2007
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Perceptions of globalisation: attitudes and responses in the EU
Morley, John; Ward, Terry; Defrère, Nadège - 2008
This report explores the employment impact of globalisation and reviews the attitudes and responses of national governments and the European social partners to this phenomenon. It first looks at the attitudes of the different stakeholders in the 27 Member States of the EU, including Bulgaria and...
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Forecasting Euro area industrial production using (mostly) business surveys data
Bruno, Giancarlo; Lupi, Claudio - Istituto di Studi e Analisi Economica, Rom - 2003
In this paper we propose a relatively simple procedure to predict Euro-zone industrial production using mostly data derived from the business surveys of the three major economies within the European Monetary Union (France, Germany, and Italy). The basic idea is that of estimating business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011291665
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Business survey data: do they help in forecasting the macro economy?
Hansson, Jesper; Jansson, Per; Löf, Mårten - Konjunkturinstitutet, Stockholm - 2003
This paper examines whether data from business tendency surveys are useful for forecasting the macro economy (GDP, unemployment, price and wage inflation, interest rates, exchange-rate changes etc.) in the short run. The starting point is a so-called dynamic factor model (DFM), which is used...
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