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In their first year of EU membership, the new EU member states recorded higher GDP growth (5% on average) than in the previous year, largely thanks to expanding domestic demand - in particular of investment and of private consumption. In 2004 GDP growth accelerated also in Austria, in line with...
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· Grouping the regions of the EU-15 and the new member states (NMS, including Bulgaria and Romania) into five clusters according to the relative importance of broad sectors of activity reveals marked differences in the regional economic structure and development. · In capital cities throughout...
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This paper analyses the spatial distribution of economic activity in the European Union at NUTS2 level over the 2001-2010 period. The aim of the study is twofold: (i) to provide descriptive evidence of the agglomeration distribution in Europe and its evolution over time across countries; (ii) to...
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based on hypotheses claiming that there is a reduction in investments before the succession, while successors tend to induce … company growth. The results show that predecessors increasingly reduce investments, continuous training of employees, and … research and development, the closer the date of succession approaches. At first sight, new owners increase investments as well …
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economic policy to foster investments are limited in the short run for what reason long term and growth-oriented economic …
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This report discusses factors that have caused a decrease in tangible investments in machinery and equipment, and … intangible assets in Finland. A decline in the R&D investments of the electronics industry practically entirely explains a … decrease in investments in Finland, which has prolonged the recovery from the collapse of productivity growth during the …
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The reform option on the Standing Multilateral Mechanism (SMM) currently under discussion at UNCITRAL's Working Group III (WGIII) has raised a number of important, systemic concerns for the procedural reforms of investor-State dispute settlement. This paper first seeks to situate the discussions...
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International corporate tax system does not succeed very well in taxing the cross-border business of the multinational enterprises. Therefore, both the European Union (EU) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have proposed several tax reforms. We recognize in this...
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The reform option on the Standing Multilateral Mechanism (SMM) currently under discussion at UNCITRAL's Working Group III (WGIII) has raised a number of important, systemic concerns for the procedural reforms of investor-State dispute settlement. This paper first seeks to situate the discussions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014374381