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Spatial dependence of regional unemployment in the European Union
Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2002
spatial econometric methods. The results point to a significant spatial dependence among regional labour markets in Europe … suggest that different forms of spatial interaction with varying scope affect the evolution of regional unemployment in Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295334
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Market Access and Regional Disparities: New Economic Geography in Europe
Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2004
New Economic Geography (NEG) has reached a theoretical consolidation while related empirical tests are still scarce. The present paper aims at providing some evidence on the validity of forces emphasised by NEG. The analysis starts from the nominal wage equation derived from the Krugman...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295401
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The quality of banking and regional growth
Hasan, Iftekhar; Koetter, Michael; Wedow, Michael - 2007
We test whether output growth in European economic agglomeration regions depends on financial development. To this end we suggest a relative measure of the quality of financial institutions rather than the usual quantity proxy of financial development. In order to measure the quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295929
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Determinants of Union Membership in 18 EU Countries : Evidence from Micro Data, 2002/03
Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2005
varies considerably in Europe, ranging from 84 per cent in Denmark to 11 per cent in Portugal. Estimating identical models …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297203
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EU enlargement and immigration
Kraus, Margit; Schwager, Robert - 2000
This paper assesses the consequences of EU enlargement for East West migration. In the theoretical part, we identify several factors in addition to the reduction of moving costs by which EU membership influences migration. Specifically, EU accession affects income gaps. Moreover, if EU...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297670
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The threat of systemic risk in banking: evidence for Europe
Schüler, Martin - 2002
are used as a measure for interdependencies among European banks, and hence for the systemic risk potential in Europe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298100
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Systemic Risk in European Banking: Evidence from Bivariate GARCH Models
Schüler, Martin; Schröder, Michael - 2003
This paper attempts to assess the Europe-wide systemic risk in banking. We employ a bivariate GARCH model to estimate … interdependencies amongst the banking business in Europe and hence for the systemic risk potential. We employ several tests to assess …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298129
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The discontinuous integration of Western Europe's heterogeneous market for corporate control from 1995 to 2007
Frey, Rainer - 2010
As, in Europe, many institutional reforms have been undertaken to establish an economic union, it can be expected that … span from 1995 to 2007. The continued lack of full integration is also evidenced by heterogeneity inside Europe. This … existing lack of integration in Europe may not be a result of missing institutional reforms. In the Poisson estimations, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301320
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The threat of systemic risk in banking - evidence for Europe
Schüler, Martin - 2002
are used as a measure for interdependencies among European banks, and hence for the systemic risk potential in Europe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301767
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Is training more frequent when wage compression is higher? Evidence from 11 European countries
Brunello, Giorgio - 2002
In this empirical paper, I use the 1996 wave of the ECHP dataset to investigate the relationship between measures of wage compression and training incidence in 11 European countries. I find that, after controlling for individual factors and country specific institutional differences, there is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335678