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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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When Institutions Matter: Union Growth and Decline in Western Europe, 1950-95

Ebbinghaus, Bernhard; Visser, Jelle - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 1998

During the early post-war period, Western trade union movements grew in membership and achieved an institutionalized role in industrial relations and politics. However, during the last decades, many trade unions have seen their membership decline as they came increasingly under pressures due to...

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Politicisation and Political Interest in Europe: A Multi-Level Approach

Deth, Jan W. van; Elff, Martin - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 2001

Political interest of citizens usually is depicted as an individual attribute that can be explained by referring to the resources and skills of the people concerned. The analyses presented here are based on a critical assessment of the explanatory power of these approaches in cross-national and...

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Political Involvement and Apathy in Europe 1973 - 1998

Deth, Jan van; Elff, Martin - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 2000

Many studies have underlined the existence of clear and persistent differences in the levels of political interest among European citizens. In this report these differences and developments in political involvement and political apathy are described and analysed, and conventional explanations in...

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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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Spillovers in the Nordic Countries

Mircheva, Borislava; Muir, Dirk - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015

Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden form a tightly integrated region which has strong ties with the euro area as well … independent monetary policy, and Denmark and Norway are net energy exporters while Finland and Sweden are energy importers. We … of integration among the four Nordic economies. These differences are driven by the fact that Denmark and Finland have no …

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Spillovers to and from the Nordic Economies: A Macroeconometric Model Based Analysis

Vitek, Francis - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

This paper analyzes the transmission of shocks and policies among and across the Nordic economies and the rest of the world. This spillover analysis is based on a pair of estimated structural macroeconometric models of the world economy, disaggregated into thirty five national economies. We find...

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The Nordic countries and multinational enterprises: employment effects and foreign direct investment.

MacDonald, G - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1989

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The Nordic Countries and the EU: How European Integration Integrates and Disintegrates States Domestically

Egeberg, Morten - ARENA - 2003

This chapter covers the Nordic member states Denmark, Finland and Sweden, as well as the “associated” countries Norway …

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The Innovative Performance of Foreign-owned Enterprises in Small Open Economies

Dachs, Bernhard; Ebersberger, Bernd; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

This paper compares the innovative performance of foreign-owned and domestically owned enterprises in five European countries. We look at innovation inputs, outputs, and examine how strong foreign-owned enterprises are embedded in the innovations systems of their host countries. We find that...

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