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Real convergence and the determinants of growth in EU candidate and potential candidate countries - a panel data approach
Borys, Magdalena Morgese; Polgár, Éva Katalin; Zlate, … - 2008
The EU candidate and potential candidate countries have made considerable progress in economic transition and integration into the world economy within less than two decades. Nevertheless, gaps in terms of income per capita relative to the euro area remain large. This suggests that the...
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Globalisation and the competitiveness of the euro area
di Mauro, Filippo; Forster, Katrin - 2008
Against the background of increasing competition and other significant structural changes implied by globalisation, maintaining and enhancing competitiveness has evolved into one of the prime concerns in most countries. Following up on previous work (see in particular ECB Occasional Papers No....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606249
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Economic Convergence and Structural Change: the Role of Transition and EU Accession
Dobrinsky, Rumen; Havlik, Peter - 2014
This paper analyses the speed and patterns of economic convergence in the new EU Member States of Central and Eastern Europe during transition and the first years of EU membership. After a brief discussion of measurement and data issues, the paper provides stylised facts on growth and...
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Essays on Offshoring, Wage Inequality and Innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
estimate knowledge spillovers through outsourcing relationships between German firms, measured by the number of those firms …
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Two exercises of inflation modelling and forecasting for Azerbaijan
Chubrik, Alexander; Hajiyeva, Gulnar; Woźniak, Przemysław - 2012
The paper proposes two econometric models of inflation for Azerbaijan: one based on monthly data and eclectic, another based on quarterly data and takes into account disequilibrium at the money market. Inflation regression based on monthly data showed that consumer prices dynamics is explained...
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Research for REGI Committee – Externalities of Cohesion Policy
Daraio, Alessandro; Naldini, Andrea; Römisch, Roman; … - 2019
resources were actually spent. The study estimates that macroeconomic spillovers significantly contribute to the impact of CP …. Spillovers directed to EU countries represent around 9% of the total annual CP expenditure. Other spillovers to Non-EU countries … are around 8% of the CP expenditure. Macro and micro spillovers together arrive at 21% of the annual CP expenditure, 67 …
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Employee financial participation in businesses: Is it worth discussing?
Blaszczyk, Barbara - 2014
This paper is an overview of the achievements in the area of employee financial participation (EFP) during the last fifty years. It addresses the question of the extent to which EFP is relevant in today's world. EFP is distinguished from participation in management (industrial democracy), and...
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Health professionals wanted: Chain mobility across European countries
Mara, Isilda - 2020
This study analyses recent trends in the mobility of health professionals in Europe. It first identifies the drivers of this mobility, then analysis its main push-and-pull factors, and finally shows how different European countries are affected by these recent movements of health professionals....
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Positioning Austria in the Global Economy: Value Added Trade, International Production Sharing and Global Linkages
Stehrer, Robert; Stöllinger, Roman - 2013
This study investigates Austria's positions in international production sharing and global value chains exploiting the recently available Global Input-Output Database (WIOD). Researchers and policy-makers become increasingly aware of the fact that production processes are more and more organised...
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Wieviel Potenzial steckt in den BRICS?
Ebner, Verena; Mumme, Christina; Lueghammer, Wolfgang; … - 2014
Die vorliegende Studie zum Potenzial der BRICS-Staaten für die österreichische Außenwirtschaft diskutiert in einem ersten Schritt aktuelle makroökonomische Entwicklungen und strukturelle Aspekte der fünf BRICS-Staaten sowie die damit verbundenen Herausforderungen für die Zukunft. In einem...
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