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Tourism is widely considered as driver for economic growth, and the "tourism-led-growth hypothesis" is often investigated in the literature. However, there is very limited literature examining how economic growth impacts tourism, an impact which is usually tacitly accepted, without being...
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empirical study is for six countries in Latin America. The findings suggest that intra-country spillovers configure an important … factor for explaining growth, while the importance of domestic spillovers is limited. The growth volatility is substantively …
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This paper examines co-movements and volatility spillovers in the returns of the euro, the British pound, the Swiss … significant co-movements and volatility spillovers across the four exchange returns, but their extend is, on average, lower in the … latter period. Return co-movements and volatility spillovers show large variability though, and are positively associated …
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Objective: The goal of this article is to analyse the impact of different measures of entrepreneurial activity, namely through attitudes and behaviour, on the economic growth of 21 European countries. The goal is to assess the impact of entrepreneurial activity, measured by perceived...
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This paper highlights the economic meaning of the size of the state for members of the European Union, thereby making the economic success of EU states statistically tangible. Firstly, we show in descriptive illustrations that the theoretically expected characteristics of small countries clearly...
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The aim of this paper is to empirically investigate the relationship between FDI and domestic investment in a sample of 10 Central and Eastern European countries over the period 1995-2015. We find FDI to lead to a creative destruction phenomenon, with a short-term crowding out effect on domestic...
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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 international economic debate on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has focused mainly on trade induced real income gains while the FDI related and innovation induced benefits have been largely neglected, although the EU and the US are leading FDI host countries and...
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