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Evaluation of the European Research Area (ERA) : Governance aspects

León Serrano, Gonzalo; Piehl Harms, Andrea A. - 2009

The European Research Area (ERA) is emerging as a powerful political driver for changes in research and innovation policies. Several ERA-driven initiatives were approved and implemented but their success depends on their governance structures. This Study analyzes the governance issues of the ERA...

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How frequently do prices change?

Aucremanne, Luc; Dhyne, Emmanuel - 2004

This paper examines the degree of price rigidity in Belgian consumer prices, using a large database. As to the observed degree of rigidity, the results reveal a substantial amount of heterogeneity, not only across but also within product categories. While prices turn out to be perfectly flexible...

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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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Explaining the money demand of non-financial corporations in the Euro area

Martinez-Carrascal, Carmen; Landesberger, Julian von - 2010

This paper analyses euro area non-financial corporations (NFC) money demand, both from a macro and a microeconomic point of view. At a macro level, money holdings are modelled as a function of real gross added value, the price level, the long-term interest rate on bank lending to non-financial...

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Household money holdings in the euro area

Seitz, Franz; Landesberger, Julian von - 2010

In this paper we analyse household holdings of the broad monetary aggregate M3 in the euro area from 1991 until 2009. We develop four models, two in nominal, two in real terms, with satisfactory economic and statistical properties. The main determinants are a transactions variable, wealth...

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Wages, labor or prices

Dhyne, Emmanuel; Druant, Martine - 2010

Survey results in 15 European countries for almost 15,000 firms reveal that Belgian firms react more than the average European firm to adverse shocks by reducing permanent and temporary employment. On the basis of a firm-level analysis, this paper confirms that the different reaction to shocks...

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Price and wage setting in Portugal : learning by asking

Martins, Fernando - 2011

This paper presents the main findings of a survey conducted on a sample of Portuguese firms. The main aim was to identify some relevant characteristics about the dynamics of prices and wages in Portugal. The most important conclusions are: i) changes to wages are more synchronized than changes...

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Structures of Education, Vocational Training and Adult Education Systems in Europe : The Netherlands ; 2003

Education Information Network in the EuropeanUnion; Eurydice - 2003

Structures of education, vocational training and adult education systems in Europe For anyone trying to understand the general organisation of education systems in Europe, these monographs set out in some 40 pages for each country, full basic and regularly updated information on its own...

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Dietz, Egon; Kuipers, Rob; Salomons, Rob - 2000

In the second half of 1999 Statistics Netherlands carried out an ad hoc project on environment-related employment in … the Netherlands. The European Commission co-financed this project under the Community programme Environmental protection … and employment. Direct environment-related employment in the Netherlands estimated at least at 92,000 (end of 1997), which …

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Analysis of energy system changes to reduce CO2 emissions in 2010 for Netherlands

Capros, P.; Mantzos, L.; Vouyoukas, L.; Delkis, K.; … - 1999

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