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In this paper we employ survey information on more than 10,000 Southern and Eastern European firms and panel data methods to assess the effects of the COVID-19-related lockdown and government support policies on the business operations of enterprises. Our findings reveal considerable size- and...
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Can tax policy foster the creation of new companies? To answer this question, we assemble a novel country-industry level panel database with data on entry (by incorporation) for 17 European countries between 1997 and 2004. Our analysis is based on recent models of how corporate taxation affects...
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We identify fiscal impulses in the EU New Member States using four different methods and apply econometric panel data techniques to determine what is the response of the output and its components to those impulses. We also directly test the effects of fiscal impulses on labour costs and...
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affects environmental protection expenditures, while elections negatively affect environmental tax revenues and environmental … protection expenditures shrink in the aftermath of elections. We do not find evidence of partisan effects. The effect of public … opinion and elections on environment-related fiscal decisions depends on the degree of integration with the global economy as …
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major national elections. Using a unique dataset that draws on data covering some 250 banksin 19 Eurozone countries from … European banks increase loan rates for corporate and housing loans ahead of elections. This supports the view that loan pricing … the impact of elections is more pronounced for small banks, as well as obtain some evidence that elections affect the …
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This paper aims at investigating the relationship between firms' profit efficiency, access to finance and innovation activities. We enrich our understanding on firms' performance by adopting the stochastic frontier approach (SFA), which allows us to estimate profit functions and to obtain...
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In this paper we employ survey information on more than 10,000 Southern and Eastern European firms and panel data methods to assess the effects of the COVID-19-related lockdown and government support policies on the business operations of enterprises. Our findings reveal considerable size- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223730
There is surprisingly little evidence on how terror attacks impact elections. With only a few exceptions, previous …
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to national parliamentary elections. This effect is more pronounced for visible and labor-intensive projects and can be …
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We analyze whether second generation immigrants have different political preferences relative to observationally identical host country's citizens. Using data on individual voting behavior in 22 European countries between 2001 and 2017 we characterize each vote on a left-right scale using...
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