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Financing obstacles and growth : an analysis for euro area non-financial corporations

Coluzzi, Chiara; Ferrando, Annalisa; … - 2009

This paper investigates whether financial obstacles, and, more generally, financial pressure faced by firms, significantly affect firm growth. For this purpose, we use an unbalanced panel of about 1,000,000 observations for around 155,000 non-financial corporations in five euro area countries....

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From Uniform to Bespoke Prices : Hotel Pricing during EURO 2016

Nicolini, Marcella - 2019

We investigate the pricing behaviour of firms facing date-specific demand shocks, by focussing on Parisian hotels during a big event, the 2016 European Football Cup. Using a unique dataset, we document an initial propensity to set the same price for rooms on different match dates, although...

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Has Austria's Accession to the EU Triggered an Increase in Competition? A Sectoral Markup Study

Badinger, Harald; Breuss, Fritz - 2004

We estimate the pro-competitive effects of Austria's participation in the Single Market after its EU accession in 1995 …

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Has the EU's Single Market Programme Fostered Competition? Testing for a Decrease in Markup Rations in EU Industries

Badinger, Harald - 2007

We use a panel approach, covering 10 EU Member States over the period 1981 to 1999, for each of three major industry … groups (manufacturing, construction, and services) and 18 more detailed industries to test whether the EU's Single Market …

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From Liberalization Towards Integration: Have Markups of EU Electricity Firms Changed?

Zarnic, Ziga - 2010

. Considering regional proximity and heterogeneity ofirms along the supply chain, the results suggest that better market access and …

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Trade balances and international competitiveness in cyber-physical, digital task-intensive, ICT capital-intensive and traditional industries

Bykova, Alexandra; Stöllinger, Roman - 2023

in recent years. Competitiveness indicators depict heterogeneity among EU countries. The loss of international …In this report, we analyse the international competitiveness of the EU in four industry groups over the period 1995 … performed by labour services and ICT capital stocks. The EU's positions relating to trade balances, revealed comparative …

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Barriers to entry, deregulation and workplace training : a theoretical model with evidence from Europe

Bassanini, Andrea; Brunello, Giorgio - 2010

We study the impact of barriers to entry on workplace training. Our theoretical model indicates that there are two contrasting effects of deregulation on training. With a given number of firms, deregulation reduces the size of rents per unit of output that firms can reap by training their...

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SEPA, efficiency, and payment card competition

Bolt, Wilko; Schmiedel, Heiko - 2009

This paper analyzes the welfare implications of creating a Single Euro Payments Area. We study the effects of increased network compatibility and payment scale economies on consumer and merchant card fees and its impact on card usage. In particular, we model competition among debit cards and...

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The political economy of EU anti-dumping reform

De Bièvre, Dirk; Eckhardt, Jappe - 2010

In this paper, we provide a political economy account of the European Union's failed attempt to reform its anti-dumping legislation between 2006 and 2008. We review the role played by different interest groups, and the way public authorities at both European Commission and member state level...

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Cost pass-through of the EU emissions allowances : examining the European petroleum markets

Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria - 2010

This paper explores the ability of European refineries to pass-through costs associated with the introduction of the EU … Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). We estimated a sequence of vector error correction models (VECM) within a multi …-national setting which covers 14 EU member states. Using weekly data at the country level, this paper finds a significant influence of …

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