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Oportunidades y amenazas para la Argentina de un acuerdo Mercosur - Unión Europea: Un estudio de impacto sectorial

2003

economic cycles and trade agreements that may have geographically redirected trade flows, the Old World is one of Argentina …

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Infrastructure endowment and investment as determinants of regional growth in the European Union

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - In: EIB Papers 13 (2008) 2, pp. 62-101

This paper analyses the role of infrastructure endowment and investment in the genesis of regional growth in the … endowment on regional economic performance, but also the weak contribution of additional investment. Regions having good …, investment in infrastructure within a region or in neighbouring regions seems to leave especially peripheral regions more …

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Unemployment in the European Union: a dynamic reappraisal

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: (a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are...

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Unemployment in the European Union: Institutions, prices, and growth

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - 2004

This paper presents a reappraisal of unemployment movements in the European Union. Our analysis is based on the chain reaction theory of unemployment, which focuses on (a) the interaction among labor market adjustment processes, (b) the interplay between these adjustment processes and the...

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Monetary policy strategies of the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve Bank of the US

Sardoni, Claudio; Wray, L. Randall - 2005

In the debate on monetary policy strategies on both sides of the Atlantic, it is now almost a commonplace to contrast the Fed and the ECB by pointing out the former's flexibility and capacity to adjust rigidity, and the latter's extreme caution, and obsession with low inflation. In looking at...

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Smoking persistence across countries: an analysis using semi-parametric dynamic panel data models with selectivity

Christelis, Dimitris; Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anna - 2009

We study smoking persistence in ten countries using data from the European Community Household Panel. Such persistence may be due to true state dependence but may also reflect individual unobserved heterogeneity. We distinguish between the two by using semi-parametric dynamic panel data methods...

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Making benefit transfers work: Deriving and testing principles for value transfers for similar and dissimilar sites using a case study of the non-market benefits of water quality i...

Bateman, Ian J.; Brouwer, Roy; Ferrini, Silvia; … - 2009

We develop and test guidance principles for benefits transfers. These argue that when transferring across relatively similar sites, simple mean value transfers are to be preferred but that when sites are relatively dissimilar then value function transfers will yield lower errors. The paper also...

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Putting new economic geography to the test : free-ness of trade and agglomeration in the EU regions

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - 2005

Based on a new economic geography (NEG) model by Puga (1999), we use the equilibrium wage equation to estimate two key structural model parameters for the NUTS II EU regions. These estimations enable us to come up with an empirically grounded free-ness of trade parameter. In line with NEG...

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The different extent of privatisation proceeds in EU countries : a preliminary explanation using a public choice approach

Belke, Ansgar; Baumgärtner, Frank; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2005

This paper empirically investigates the differences in the motives of raising privatisation proceeds for a panel of EU countries from 1990 to 2000. More specifically, we test whether privatisations can be mainly interpreted (a) as ingredients of a larger reform package of economic liberalisation...

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Labour market institutions and their effect on labour market performance in the new EU member countries

Fialová, Kamila; Schneider, Ondřej - 2008

This article focuses on the role of labour market institutions in explaining different labour market developments in European countries, with a special attention to the new European Union member countries. This may allow us to analyse effects of various institutional setups and of their changes...

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