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Romania with the EU and then the integration presenting strategic political decisions, I have included in this work two … underlining their structure, role and function and their transformation. Integration into the EU of a country like Romania, which … because of the structural transformations. In five chapters I am referring to the essential characteristics of the integration …
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This paper investigates empirical linkages amongst inclusive institutions, innovation and economic growth in the European context. We follow as a theoretical framework a non-scale R&D-based growth model. In the baseline model, negative institutional externalities not only affect the productivity...
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GDP growth in the Eurozone during the last twenty years continuously decreased. In addition, the global financial crisis and subsequent events seem to have, on average, shifted the trajectory of the Eurozone's potential output downward. A key question is whether this trend is a permanent result...
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Real convergence is an essential objective of Romania's integration into the EU. Bridging the development gaps between … divergence and polarization. For this purpose, special tools and mechanisms are required; e.g., cohesion. The study deals with …
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This article aims to answer the question of whether a membership in the European Union contributed to an accelerated economic growth of eleven Central and Eastern European (CEE or EU11) countries, including their real convergence to the economic development level of Western Europe (EU15). The...
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The impact of structural funds of the European Union (EU) on regional economic growth is a matter of both political and economic importance. The large and regular payments made across the EU to countries and regions within them were and are meant to promote various aspects of growth and...
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This essay starts, after a short introduction on the importance and dimensions of "inclusive growth", with a brief empirical sketch on to what extent Europe has already succeeded with respect to this ambitious goal. The result is quite sobering and gives rise to the question: why is it so? The...
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The research project WWWforEurope undertakes to lie the theoretical and empirical foundations for the embarkment on a new socio-ecological growth path in Europe. The new path underlines the need to guarantee Welfare as a broad universal principle for its population, assuring economic and social...
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This paper deals with economic growth in Europe. The special emphasis is in key institutional factors that are commonly assumed to affect aggregate growth: functioning of labor markets, availability of labor and capital, and the size of government. For more explicit measures, we use the data on...
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In a recent paper, Colombier (2009) uses a robust estimation technique and claims to find empirical evidence that government size has not been detrimental to growth for OECD countries during the 1970 to 2001 period, and that endogenous growth theory is not corroborated. We examine the robustness...
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