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Modelling long-run energy consumption under model uncertainty
Humer, Stefan; Csereklyei, Z. - EcoMod Network - 2012
The causality between energy consumption and real income in developed countries has been a very vital research topic in recent years. Raising concerns about climate change and global warming increase the pressure on policy makers to take action against energy depletion. Unfortunately these...
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Is employment of social risk groups the key to sustaining the European welfare regimes?
Josifidis, Kosta; Supic, Novica; Pucar, Emilija Beker; … - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 6, pp. 623-640
The European welfare regimes face two sets of challenges. One internal, specific for the welfare state itself, and the other external, imposed by changing economic, political and economics conditions. The first challenge lies in the growing gap between the rigid welfare state design and flexible...
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Risk Adjustment Systems in Health Insurance Markets in the US, Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland
Schneider, Udo; Ulrich, Volker; Wille, Eberhard - In: CESifo DICE Report 6 (2008) 3, pp. 37-49
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Citizenship tests in five Countries: An expression of political liberalism?
Michalowski, Ines - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2009
the US, Austria, the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands. A central question discussed is whether these tests can be …: countries with rather restrictive citizenship regimes such as Austria or Germany have opted for a citizenship test with a … Inhalt von Einbürgerungstests der USA, Österreichs, des Vereinigten Königreichs, Deutschlands und der Niederlande. Eine …
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On the causal relationship between trade-openness and government-size: evidence from OECD countries
Molana, Hassan; Montagna, Catia; Violato, Mara - In: International Journal of Public Policy 7 (2011) 4/5/6, pp. 226-249
The compensation hypothesis predicts a positive causation from international economic openness to the size of the public sector, as governments step in to perform a risk mitigating role to counterbalance the increasing exposure to external risk and the economic dislocations caused by growing...
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When Institutions Matter: Union Growth and Decline in Western Europe, 1950-95
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard; Visser, Jelle - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 1998
main structural, cyclical and institu-tional factors explaining union growth and decline. Concentrating on Western Europe … that structural and cyclical factors fail explain the level and changes in unionization across Western Europe, while …
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Bank debt and performance of Continental European firms
Krivogorsky, Victoria; Grudnitski, Gary; Dick, Wolfgang - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 6, pp. 593-608
When the source of external capital for Continental European firms is examined, debt markets have historically supplied a much larger percentage of the external capital than equity markets, and firms rely much more on bank debt than bonds for their external funds. In this environment banks have...
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Macro-level perspective of consumer ethnocentrism: a panel data study in Turkey
Altintas, Murat Hakan; Harcar, Talha; Dulgeroglu, Ismail; … - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 7 (2011) 4, pp. 402-421
This article analyses the relationship between the main antecedents of and imports/GNP ratio as a subtle reflector of macro-level consumer ethnocentrism (CE). We constructed a model that reflects the macro level ethnocentrism in a domestic country. This ratio expresses the economy openness of a...
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Controversial issues in factors determining intra-industry trade
Ferto, Imre; Soós, Károly Attila - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 1/2, pp. 132-148
We examine some controversial country-specific factors influencing vertical and horizontal intra-industry trade including foreign direct investment and income distributions. As concerns, the effect of differences in countries’ levels of economic development (richness), both theories and...
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Financing of Education: Some Experiences from ten European Countries.
Werner, Jan; Shah, Anwar - Institute of Local Public Finance - 2006
providers in ten European countries. We observe the educational system in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy …, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom and point out the similarities and national distinctions in the respective …
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