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Global food production practices and consumption patterns have changed notably in the last few decades. Current dietary … patterns are characterized by increased consumption of refined sugars as well as higher intakes of heavily-processed and animal … association between the consumption of meat and fish and economic and socio-demographic factors, different consumption habits and …
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This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern - horizontal versus vertica l- within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture trade...
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consumption: cross-border trade costs. We use data on cross-border e-commerce between EU Member States to estimate the implied … cross-border trade cost reduction when consumers move from offline to online consumption. We plug this trade cost estimate …. We find that cross-border e-commerce increases real household consumption. However, the domestic spill-over effect …
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The studies summarised in this paper focus on the economic implications of euro area firms’ participation in global value chains (GVCs). They show how, and to what extent, a large set of economic variables and inter-linkages have been affected by international production sharing. The core...
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We analyse potential consequences of the forthcoming Trade and Investment Partnership between the European Union and the United States (TTIP) for trade orientation of both partners. We do it with the short analysis of the characteristics of the third wave of regionalism and the TTIP position in...
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In this paper, I estimate the impact of heterogeneity in non-tariff-measures (NTMs) policies on countries' global value chains (GVCs)-related trade and its backward and forward components. I firstly build a regulatory distance (RD) index, which measures the degree of dissimilarity in NTMs...
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links on wages between workers from Western, Central–Eastern, and Southern Europe employed in manufacturing and non … pressure on wages in Europe. This effect mainly concerns workers from Western Europe employed in manufacturing and is driven by …, but the pressure of GVC imports on wages in Western Europe is not economically negligible, in particular when inputs are …
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An extensive body of research related to immigrants in a variety of countries has documented a "healthy immigrant effect" (HIE). When immigrants arrive in the host country they are healthier than comparable native populations, but their health status may deteriorate with additional years in the...
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We study the health determinants of immigrant men and women over the age of fifty, in Europe, and compare them to natives. We utilize the unique Survey of Health Aging and Retirement (SHARE) and augmented it with macroeconomic information on the 22 home countries and 16 host countries. Using...
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This paper investigates the production function of firms based on the use of intellectual capital. We come up with this problem since believe that the new economy conditions require an adjustment and a development of classical firm theory. The research question addressed in this study is mainly...
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