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Most firm-level research on the characteristics and strategies of globalized firms focuses on manufacturing industries while firm-level evidence on trade in services is still rare and has just recently begun to emerge. This study uses an unique dataset of Austrian service exporting firms over a...
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Angesichts des globalen Wettlaufs um Afrikas Ressourcen ist die EU darauf aus, Wirtschaftliche Partnerschaftsabkommen … auf Augenhöhe schaffen. Viele Afrikaner verdächtigen die EU jedoch mit doppelter Zunge zu reden und egoistisch eigene … als Beispiel um zu zeigen, dass die Spannungen zwischen afrikanischen Ländern und der EU im Wesentlichen auf der …
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EU and ACP states, all of the EPAs require ACP signatories to make commitments which go beyond WTO disciplines. From a … security in ACP signatories. This paper investigates whether the commitments undertaken by ACP governments when they signed … EPAs are a threat to food security. Analysis of the tariff liberalisation schedules suggests that ACP states have made use …
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joined the European Union (EU11) and 15 countries of Western Europe (EU15) in the period 1993-2015. The evolution of the … 2000-2007, just before and after the EU's major enlargement. This suggests that the increasing economic integration … average GDP per capita level seen in Western Europe. The third scenario, based on a long-term economic forecast for the EU …
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This volume was prepared by Sebastian Benz while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different...
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in the EU. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of the most recent EU enlargement on convergence among … countries and regions in the EU27. Departing from a new economic geography framework, we focus on integration effects caused by … significantly alter the findings of our convergence analysis. -- Integration ; market access ; EU enlargement ; convergence …
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We provide evidence on the impact of globalization on labor market outcomes analyzing pay differences between foreign-acquired and domestically-owned firms. For this purpose, we use firm level data from 16 European countries over the time period 1999 to 2006. Applying propensity score matching...
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Starting from Professor Kornai's assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. We present in a simple form...
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