international firms and systematically important non-banking financial institutions. EU on the basis of reports Larosière Commission …

In this paper we look at the evolution of the R&D intensity gap between the EU and its major competitors using data … the EU and its major competitors (US, Japan, BRIC, Asian Tigers) and then we look more closely at the role and evolution … on the EU-US R&D intensity gap and, by applying firm level econometric analysis, we test whether the results obtained by …

Havlik, Michael Landesmann and Olga Pindyuk; pp. 2-6) Agricultural imports from LDCs a comparison across EU-27 Member States … of SMEs’ funding obstacles – a comparative analysis of EU-15 and NMS-13 countries (by Sandra Leitner and Marek Rojicek …

seriously amiss with EU labor markets. The theme of this piece issimple. Compared to an ideal competitive market, EU labor … markets fall seriously short, butcompared to labor markets in the US and to other markets in advanced capitalist countries,EU … labor markets do not live up to their awful press. The variety of labor market institutionsamong EU countries, moreover …

We provide an ex-post econometric examination of the harmonization and tightening of the EU Maximum Residues Limit (MRL …) on aflatoxins in 2002, and its impact on African exports of groundnut products. We show that the MRL set by the EU has no …

Within the EU France devotes to defence the largest financial and human resources although it is not the richest …

This paper examines the performance of African agri-food exports to the EU market over the first decade of the new … millennium. The EU is Africa’s single largest export market absorbing just half of all African agri-food exports. Countries are … grouped according to the preferential trade regime they enjoy to enter the EU market: North African countries under EuroMed …