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This paper develops a method of testing levels of economic integration based upon consumption smoothig, and tests it using data on trade balances accross Canadian provinces. The results indicate the provinces are highly integrated within Canada, but integration between Canada and the rest of the...
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This paper develops a method of testing levels of economic integration based upon consumption smoothing, and tests it using data on trade balances across Canadian provinces. The results indicate the provinces are highly integrated within Canada, but integration between Canada and the rest of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012782323
This paper contrasts two dominant views of migration. One involves movements to arbitrage disequilibrium in labor markets, while the other takes a more urban economic view of equilibrium in which on-going migration is seen as a response to changing demands for non-traded amenities as incomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206013
The existing 'international tax regime' derived from the international tax treaties network and from unilateral domestic legislation of the world's nations. Among several unintended byproducts, the current 'tax regime' enables situations of double non-taxation and tax evasion. The most...
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Global warming and climate impact on agricultural output, land use and food production. This paper seeks to verify the economic impacts of climate change in the Legal Amazon region, especially on agricultural production, land use, GDP and job creation. We employ the Computable General...
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The extent to which members of a national team play for a club in a foreign country has been increasing over the last 15 years tremendously. The aim of this paper is to examine empirically the existence of two potential spill-over effects: First, since the members of a confederation compete...
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This paper reviews a set of issues related to the concept and measurement of regional competitiveness. First, the concept of growth and competitiveness is argued to be different at regional level from the national level. In particular, the relationship between agglomeration and performance, the...
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stored and fully converted into low-risk financial assets. The scope is to give priority to long-run investments as to better …
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Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear that primacy eventually hurts growth performance. Since it is tough to interpret cross-country growth regressions, we provide detailed evidence on the determinants of outward FDI...
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Climate Change. Using regression analysis, we assess the relationship between such directionality and the exposure to risk of … Climate Change. Results show a positive relationship between risk projection and climate change preparedness. However, a more … the EU regions most at risk of being affected by climate change are also the ones most ready to target climate change …
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