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EU: N itälaajenemisen vaikutukset Suomen tuotantorakenteeseen

Alho, Kari - 2001

Tässä muistiossa käsitellään EU:n itälaajenemisen vaikutuksia Suomen tuotantorakenteeseen. Tarkastelu jakautuu neljään osaan. Ensiksi tarkastellaan KIE-maiden integroitumista kohti EU:ta. Todetaan, että EU:n laajenemisen suhteen vallitsee merkittävä epäsymmetria siinä, että...

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Catching up and unemployment in the EU

Alho, Kari E. O. - 2001

Europe’s catching up of the US in per capita income levels has, with some exceptions, come to a halt and turned into a decline during the 1980s and 1990s with a simultaneous secular worsening in the EU unemployment situation. The aim of the paper is to present a systematic description of the...

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European Union and United States trade relations

Paukku, Markus - 2000

Transatlantic trade relations between the European Union and the United States have evolved rapidly at the close of the 21st century. Alongside the benefits of free trade the relationship has been marred by trade disputes. The WTO arbitration and government and business initiated transatlantic...

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An equity perspective on access to, enrolment in and finance of tertiary education

Asplund, Rita; Ben-Abdelkarim, Oussama; Skalli, Ali - 2007

The failure to achieve equitable access to university studies has turned the focus to the funding of European higher education systems. Since the large amounts of public subsidies injected in tertiary-level education have not succeeded in reducing disparities in access for children from...

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Fiscal policy, automatic stabilisers and policy coordination in EMU

Virén, Matti - 2000

This paper deals with fiscal policy coordination under the Stability and Growth Pact. In particular, it addresses the question of how fiscal policy can be coordinated within EMU, where countries still differ considerably in terms of country-specific shocks and fiscal policy multipliers. To...

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The labour market consequences of self-employment spells: European evidence

Hyytinen, Ari; Rouvinen, Petri - 2008

We examine how those re-entering paid-employment after a brief self-employment spell fare upon return using data from the European Community Household Panel. Unconditionally, those re-entering paid-employment appear to have considerably lower wages than those staying in the wage sector. This...

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Three current account balances: A "semi-structuralist" interpretation

Chinn, Menzie; Lee, Jaewoo - 2007

Three current account imbalances - one very large deficit (the United States) and two surpluses (Japan and the Euro area) - are subjected to a minimalist structural interpretation. Though simple, this interpretation enables us to assess how much of each of the imbalances require a real exchange...

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On the (de)stabilizing effects of news shocks

Winkler, Roland C.; Wohltmann, Hans-Werner - 2009

This paper analyzes the impacts of news shocks on macroeconomic volatility. Whereas anticipation amplifies volatility in any purely forward-looking model, such as the baseline New Keynesian model, the results are ambiguous when including a backward-looking component. In addition to these...

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Regulatory reforms of European network industries and the courts

Knieps, Günter - 2010

Regulatory reforms in European network industries are strongly influenced by legal decisions. The cases considered in this paper not only initiated the liberalization process of the markets for network services but also provided an important signaling function for the remaining regulatory...

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Sovereignty at sea: The law and politics of saving lives in the Mare Liberum

Gammeltoft-Hansen, Thomas; Aalberts, Tanja - 2010

at sea that falls upon all sovereign states. Yet, exactly because this takes in international waters, the precise … international law. This working paper is the first in a special series linked to the DIIS research initiative 'Shifting … Sovereignties & Power'. The present paper was presented at the first international workshop in this framework titled 'Sovereignty …

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