on domestic productivity. The domestic R&D capital stock plays an active role in Western Europe while in the Eastern part …

) estimation procedure applied to the non-linear multiplicative specification of the gravity model. We use the trade flows for all … explanatory variables such as exporter and importer total income, distance, preferential trade agreements, common border …/or quantitative differences in the values of estimated coefficients as a result of application of an alternative estimation method …

forecasts: a moving average transformation of the underlying forecasts and estimation with constant forecast-horizon- effects …

Germany, the two largest electricity distribution countries in Europe. We examine the relative performance of 99 French and 77 …

of income taxation for this group. To this end, we derive the social welfare function which guarantees that joint … earn a similar amount of income. In contrast, the optimality of individual taxation is less dependent of the working …

problems with examining gender issues in the context of an income-based pro-poor growth framework, the paper considers theory …