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European Integration, Productivity Growth and Real Convergence : Evidence from the New Member States
Kutan, Ali M. - 2009
We estimate the determinants of labor productivity growth in 8 new European Union (EU) member states that joined the … Union in 2004. Our focus is on the impact of globalization and EU integration efforts on labor productivity growth. Previous … labor productivity growth. Using panel data for 1995-2006 period, we find that globalization has mixed effects. FDI and …
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Distortions, structural transformation and the Europe-US income gap
Bah, El-hadj - In: The B.E. journal of macroeconomics 13 (2013) 1, pp. 681-714
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Weather and income : lessons from the main European regions
García-León, David - 2015
Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have delivered meaningful messages with clear implications to the effects of a changing climate. In a nutshell, the authors claim that a 1°C increase in global average temperatures...
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The role of additionality in the EU cohesion policies : an example of firm-level investment support
Brandsma, Andries; Ciaian, Pavel; Kancs, D'Artis - 2010
Additionality is one of the key principles driving the functioning of the EU Cohesion Policies (ECP). The present paper studies how additionality affects the distributional effects of the ECP. Using the example of the firm-level investment support, we analyse the role of additionality and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524820
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Offshoring and financial markets : paper to be presented at the 53rd European Congress of the European Regional Science Association, Palermo, August 27-31, 2013
Battisti, Gianfranco - 2013
During the 20th century all economic structures underwent the impact of two epochal phenomena, the communications revolution and the financialization of economy. As a consequence of the never ending technological progress, the first has repeatedly reduced the friction of distance, provoking a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535365
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Poland and Greece : two contrasting EU enlargement experiences
Rapacki, Ryszard - 2012
The aim of this contribution is a comparative analysis of the challenges Poland and Greece (and more broadly - CEE-10 and GIPS countries) had to face in the past as latecomers to the European Union and are facing now, in the aftermath of the world financial and economic crisis of 2008-09.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454638
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Regional integration and development asymmetries
Rapacki, Ryszard - 2008
The aim of the present contribution is two-fold. First, we are going to briefly overview the theoretical arguments suggesting that regional economic integration may enhance the process of real economic convergence or catching up by less-advanced members of integration arrangements towards the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454982
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The role of constitutions on poverty : a cross-national investigation
Minkler, Lanse; Prakash, Nishith - 2015
In this paper we use novel historical data on economics and social rights from the constitutions of 201 countries and an instrument variable strategy to answer two important questions. First, do economic and social rights provisions in constitutions reduce poverty? Second, does the strength of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488146
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Environmental taxation in Europe : what does it depend on?
Castiglione, Concetta; Infante, Davide; Minervini, … - In: Cogent economics & finance 2 (2014) 1, pp. 1-8
The present work adds to the existing literature the analysis of the determinants of environmental taxation in European economies. Using a pooled panel data, we consider various groups of factors influencing environmental taxation referring to production and consumption, environmental...
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The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments : insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs
Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - 2014 - Manuscript date: 24 October, 2014
To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...
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