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Regulatory effects of the amendment to the HwO in 2004 in German craftsmanship

Rostam-Afschar, Davud

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Statistics on student mobility within the European Union

Teichler, Ulrich - 2003

How to overcome shortcomings of the available comparative data on student mobility in Europe? Currently, inward student mobility in the EU Member States is measured by means of the criterion foreign citizenship. In the wake of changing social realities in Europe, however, foreign citizenship is...

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Improving the Participation in the ERASMUS Programme

Vossensteyn, Hans; Beerkens, Maarja - 2010

This study explores the extent to which European students experience financial and other barriers to participation in …, with the exception of financial issues, which are an important concern for students everywhere. ERASMUS participation is … associated with students’ socio-economic background, primarily influenced by individual preferences and cost …

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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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Unemployment, hysteresis and transition

León-Ledesma, Miguel; McAdam, Peter - 2003

We quantify the degree of persistence in unemployment rates of transition countries using a variety of methods benchmarked against the EU. In part of the paper, we work with the concept of linear u0093Hysteresisu0094 as described by the presence of unit roots in unemployment. Since this is...

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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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Towards the estimation of equilibrium exchange rates for CEE acceding countries

Maeso-Fernandez, Francisco; Osbat, Chiara; Schnatz, Bernd - 2004

This paper provides a discussion of methodological issues relating to the estimation of the long-run relationship between exchange rates and fundamentals for Central and Eastern European acceding countries, focusing on the so-called behavioural equilibrium exchange rate (BEER) approach. Given...

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The impact of supply constraints on bank lending in the euro area

Hempell, Hannah Sabine; Sørensen, Christoffer Kok - 2010

Aggregate loan development typically hinges on a combination of factors that impact simultaneously on the demand and the supply side of bank lending. The financial turmoil starting in mid-2007 had detrimental consequences for banks’ balance-sheets, cost of funds and profitability, thus...

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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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