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Europäische Kommission / Generalsekretariat - 2001

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Feasibility Study for Creating an EU Pension Fund for Researchers

Hewitt Associates (contributor) - Hewitt Associates - 2010

This report covers the main results of the study carried out on behalf of the European Commission in accordance with the service contract RTD/DirC/C4/2009/0268794 of 9 June 2009. The main objective of this project was to study, and report to the European Commission and to its Advisory Group1,...

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Global governance — the rise of non-state actors

Falkner, Robert - 2011

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Trade costs, openness and productivity

Lejour, Arjan; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo; Rodriguez, Victor; … - 2009

This paper discusses the channels between openness and productivity and trade hampering factors. The stylized facts from the heterogeneous firms literature suggests that firms face market entry costs for each new product they export and to each new export market. Transport costs, border costs...

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Trade advantages and specialisation dynamics in acceding countries

Zaghini, Andrea - 2003

The paper analyses the evolution of the trade specialisation pattern in the ten countries which will join the EU in 2004, by studying the dynamics of their comparative advantages over the period 1993-2000. The study finds that, although some countries are still broadly relying on natural...

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Trade with central and eastern Europe

Polgár, Éva Katalin; Wörz, Julia - 2010

This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing industries) in 25 EU countries over the period from 1995 to 2005. By applying a cross-country and industry-specific approach, it is possible to control for unobserved heterogeneity at...

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Is China climbing up the quality ladder?

Pula, Gabor; Santabárbara, Daniel - 2011

There is an ongoing debate in the literature about the quality content of Chinese exports and to what extent China … imposes a threat to the market positions of advanced economies. While China’s export structure is very similar to that of the … values reflect quality the prevailing view of the literature is that China exports low quality varieties of the same products …

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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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