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Economic challenges and costs of reintegrating the Donbas region in Ukraine

Havlik, Peter; Kochnev, Artem; Pindyuk, Olga - 2020

This study provides a systematic assessment of the costs of the ongoing armed conflict in the Donbas region of Ukraine … household damage in the conflict-affected areas and novel data on the macroeconomy of certain areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk … investments, improve the well-being of Ukrainian citizens and increase the opportunity costs of conflict. The systematic …

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Economic Costs of Mass Violent Conflicts: Final Report for the Small Arms Survey, Geneva, Switzerland

Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman; Drautzburg, Thorsten; … - 2008

'the economic costs of mass violent conflict' by identifying strengths and weaknesses of the existing literature. The … conflict. These models differ by complexity, ranging from standard regression analysis to computable general equilibrium models …

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Benchmarking institutional and structural indicators in EU candidate and potential candidate countries

Alvarez Orviz, Roberto; Savelin, Li - 2017

This paper reviews institutional and structural challenges in countries preparing for EU membership, i.e. Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey. Sound institutions and solid economic structures are not only the...

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Real convergence in central, eastern and south-eastern Europe

Żuk, Piotr; Savelin, Li - 2018

This paper analyses real income convergence in central, eastern and south-eastern Europe (CESEE) to the most advanced EU economies between 2000 and 2016. The relevance of this topic stems both from the far-reaching implications of real income convergence for economic welfare and the importance...

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Which Structural Reforms Does E(M)U Need to Function Properly?

Bayer, Kurt - 2018

Structural reform proposals have undergone significant change both as proposed by IMF and OECD as by the European Union. From a narrow flexibility-enhancing ('liberalising') focus complementing a strict budget consolidation course, they have evolved towards embracing institutional reforms and...

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Mergers and acquisitions - the standing of theory in the quest for better institutions and policy

Jensen, Camilla - 2010

The paper shows that the standing of theory in the field of mergers and acquisitions is weak for at least three reasons. Research is best described as a battlefield of ad hoc theory testing leaving behind a fragmented field. Research has focused traditionally on high intensity markets under the...

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China's foreign oil policy: genesis, deployment and selected effects

Christie, Edward Hunter; Francois, Joseph; Urban, Waltraut - 2010

China is a rising global power with a growing role and impact on the world's energy markets as well as on the Earth's climate system. China pursues its development in an essentially non-confrontational manner, a vision encapsulated by the notion of peaceful rise which is viewed positively in the...

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Vulnerability and Bargaining Power in EU-Russia Gas Relations

Christie, Edward Hunter; Bev, Pavel K.; Golovko, Volodymyr - 2011

This report contains three separate papers, each addressing selected issues concerning natural gas policy and security of gas supply in Europe. The over-arching themes are vulnerability (to supply disruptions, to supplier pricing power) and fragmentation; and measures designed to overcome them,...

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Oil and Gas Dependence of EU-15 Countries

Christie, Edward - 2007

This study seeks to answer two questions first, which countries and industries within the EU-15 group of countries are most vulnerable to possible supply shocks with respect to crude oil and with respect to natural gas and, second, what is the current state of the EU's debate on Europe's energy...

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Energy security in the EU beyond

Pomfret, Richard - 2009

Past episodes of energy insecurity have been fleeting and the fears have been assuaged by market forces or technical change. This paper analyses the nature of the EU's current energy security problems, emphasising the increased importance of natural gas and high level of dependence on Russian...

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