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Fragmentation of wholesale funding markets – an empirical approach to measure country-specific risk premia in banks' bond spreads
Thiel, Michael - 2014
boundaries. The estimations identify a significant premium in the range 60-170 basis points on issued debt that banks have paid … to investors if they are located in Spain, Ireland or Italy. . Portuguese and Greek banks paid a premium up to 170 … respectively 200 basis points due to the impact of sovereign risk on market fragmentation. The premium for banks in other core …
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Financing the recovery : the state of Europe’s financial sector
Grochowska, Anna; Diaconescu, Ioana; Margerit, Aliénor; … - 2014
translated into more ample credit creation in support of economic growth. The continued necessary adjustment of bank balance … credit demand. Weakness in bank lending calls for more efforts to foster alternative sources of finance. Other challenges …
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Upgrading or polarisation? Long-term and global shifts in the employment structure : European Jobs Monitor 2015
Fernández-Macías, Enrique; Hurley, John - 2015
Europe has begun to emerge from the prolonged slump caused by the global financial crisis in 2008 and exacerbated by the euro zone single-currency crisis in 2010–2011. In the last year, aggregate employment levels have risen faster than at any time since 2008. This, the fourth annual European...
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Job tenure in turbulent times
Bachmann, Roland; Frings, Hanna - 2015
This report describes the findings of a study of change in job tenure between 2002 and 2012 in the EU. The study examined change in mean tenure as well as the distribution of short and long tenure in the EU and in individual Member States. It also looked at differences in tenure according to...
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Evaluation of Visibility of EU external action : Final Report ; Volume 1
PARTICIP GmbH Consultants für Entwicklung und Umwelt, … - 2012
The mandate for this study was to undertake an evaluation of EU external action as managed by three DGs: DG RELEX, DG DEV and DG AIDCO. The Terms of Reference identified two main objectives (ToR, Feb 2010, Section 1 – reproduced in Annex 1): · To provide an overall independent assessment of...
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Experiencing the economic crisis in the EU : Changes in living standards, deprivation and trust
Mikulić, Branislav; Sándor, Eszter; Leoncikas, Tadas - 2012
Results from the European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) show comparisons over time of different dimensions of people’s quality of life, including their standard of living. A combined review of indicators from the EQLS and those obtained from the Eurobarometer (for 2009 and 2010) highlights the...
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Role of social partners in addressing the global economic crisis : Working paper
Stavroula Demetriades; Christian Welz - 2012
This working paper examines how social dialogue has addressed the impact of the crisis. In order to make reasonable comparisons between countries as diverse as Brazil, China, Japan and the USA it is necessary to take into account the institutional, political, economic and social backgrounds....
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Germany : Short-time working allowance
Mandl, Irene; Schulze-Marmeling, Sebastian - 2009
The reduction of working time has played a major role in lessening the impact of lowered production output on employment levels, and this project aims to investigate short-time working and temporary layoff schemes which have been used as a means of avoiding redundancies by many Member States...
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Austria : Short-time working subsidy
Mandl, Irene - 2009
The reduction of working time has played a major role in lessening the impact of lowered production output on employment levels, and this project aims to investigate short-time working and temporary layoff schemes which have been used as a means of avoiding redundancies by many Member States...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011863882
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Social dialogue in times of global economic crisis
Guyet, Rachel; Tarren, David; Triomphe, Claude-Emmanuel - 2012
Social dialogue is one of the cornerstones of social Europe and involves employers, workers and their representatives, and, in tripartite structures, also public authorities in the discussions and negotiations which shape social policy and industrial relations. This study seeks to establish how...
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