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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. …
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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...
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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...
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varies considerably in Europe, ranging from 84 per cent in Denmark to 11 per cent in Portugal. Estimating identical models …
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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...
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are used as a measure for interdependencies among European banks, and hence for the systemic risk potential in Europe …
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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 …
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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 …
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are used as a measure for interdependencies among European banks, and hence for the systemic risk potential in Europe …
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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...
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