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Natural gas plays an important role in the future development of electricity markets as it is the least emission intensive fossil generation option while additionally providing the needed flexibility in plant operation to deal with intermittent renewable generation. As both the electricity and...
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Corporate tax levels have fallen substantially in Europe during the last decades. A broad literature has identified tax … whether the decline in corporate tax levels in Europe is mainly driven by tax competition between EU member states or by … evidence for tax competition within Europe, whereas there is no robust evidence that European countries compete with countries …
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The paper aims at analysing the impact of domestic and international tourism on the economic growth process for 179 regions in ten European countries, which are highly representative of total tourism flows. The econometric analysis is carried out for the period 1999-2009 and it is based on a...
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allow us to incorporate into the analysis the relevance of spatial effects in the processes of regional growth in Europe …
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During the programming period 2007-2013 the Cohesion Policy of EU has adopted and implemented the policy of territorial co-operation between EU Member States but also between EU and third countries. In this framework, the EU co-finances (through the European Regional Development Fund, the...
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There are some long-term trends in the global energy market: changing geography of hydrocarbons production, displacement of the centers of oil and gas in remote and offshore areas, steady decline in hydrocarbon production in the continental deposits, maintaining a stable level due to increased...
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Truck operations have recently become an important focus of academic research not only because road freight transport is a key part of logistics, but because trucks are usually associated with negative externalities including pollution, congestion and traffic accidents. While the negative...
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The aim of this paper is to analyze the difference between the rates of potential entrepreneurship and actual entrepreneurship in European and American context, trying to identify some of the explanatory factors. For this purpose an institutional approach is used, which includes the role of...
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The Netherlands can be seen as one of the best healthcare systems in Europe. However, ICT application in hospitals in … respect to Europe, there is a considerable variability in adoption levels, with Nordic countries like Finland, Sweden, Denmark … and Estonia at the highest level of adoption and countries in Eastern Europe and Greece staying behind at the lowest level …
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the suburbanization of population in European cities. This is considered a major issue in Europe, which has never been …
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