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European Integration, Productivity Growth and Real Convergence : Evidence from the New Member States
Kutan, Ali M. - 2009
exports improve productivity, but imports hurt it. Regarding domestic variables, we find that human capital is the most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155963
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010517704
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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 to the ECP investments in a perfectly competitive environment causes distortions in the capital market and leads to … benefits firms. In an imperfectly competitive environment the firm-level investment support may increase capital use and may be …
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
capital movements, as a sort of virtual reality largely superordinate to the real economic world, this latter receiving from …) the "strong points" (representing concentrations of financial capital), c) the "discontinuity faults", d) the capital …
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010490432
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430680
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Social capital, innovation and growth : evidence from Europe
Akçomak, I. Semih (contributor); Weel, Bas ter (contributor) - 2008
This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and per capita income growth in the European … Union. We model and identify innovation as an important mechanism that transforms social capital into higher income levels … is conducive to per capita income growth and that social capital affects this growth indirectly by fostering innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656921