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Parra Robles, María Dolores; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2012

The present work analyses the impact of free trade agreements (FTAs) on the improvement of trade flows for ten Middle East and North African Countries (MENA) for the period 1990-2010. An extended gravity model is estimated to analyse the average and individual impact of six FTAs (four...

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Quo vadis, euroland? European Monetary Union between crisis and reform

Hellwig, Martin - 2011

This lecture discusses the 2010 crisis of the European Monetary Union and draws some lessons for reform. Crisis resolution has been difficult because the sovereign debt crisis of countries like Greece and Portugal has come together with real-estate and banking crises in countries like Ireland...

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An experimental contribution to the revision of the guidelines on research and development agreements

Engel, Christoph - 2010

The European Commission is working on a revision of its Guidelines on Research and Development Agreements. On this occasion, this note surveys the existing experimental evidence. Experiments add a number of additional arguments to the normative assessment. R&D agreements have a much smaller...

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Chinese Perspectives on International Power Shifts and Sino-EU Relations (2008-2011)

Noesselt, Nele - 2012

With the beginning of the post-Maoist era, the focus of Chinese foreign policy shifted from ideology and revolution to pragmatism and reform. Chinese scholars in the field of International Relations (IR) are now encouraged to develop abstract scientific analyses of China's international...

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Unemployment benefits and immigration: Evidence from the EU

Giulietti, Corrado; Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; … - 2011

The paper studies the impact of unemployment benefits on immigration. A sample of 19 European countries observed over … the period 1993-2008 is used to test the hypothesis that unemployment benefit spending (UBS) is correlated with … are not related to unemployment benefit generosity. This suggests that the so-called welfare migration debate is misguided …

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Krankenversicherung in der Europäischen Union: Versicherungspflicht, Wanderungskosten und das Recht auf Freizügigkeit

Kochskämper, Susanna - 2011

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Intangible capital and growth in advanced economies: Measurement methods and comparative results

Corrado, Carol; Haskel, Jonathan; Jona-Lasinio, Cecilia; … - 2012

We present a harmonized data set on intangible investment for a number of EU countries and an analysis of growth.

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Is electricity more important than natural gas? Partial liberalization of the Western European energy markets

Brekke, Kjell Arne; Golombek, Rolf; Kittelsen, Sverre A. - 2008

The European Union has introduced directives that aim to liberalize and integrate electricity and gas markets in Western Europe. While progress has been made, particularly in electricity markets, there have been setbacks: for example, because of concerns about national interests and security of...

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Financial services integration in East Asia: Lessons from the European Union

Pasadilla, Gloria O. - 2008

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An evaluation of the tax-transfer treatment of married couples in European countries

Immervoll, Herwig; Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Kreiner, … - 2008

This paper presents an evaluation of the tax-transfer treatment of married couples in 15 EU countries using the EUROMOD microsimulation model. First, we show that many tax-transfer schemes in Europe feature negative jointness defined as a situation where the tax rate on one person depends...

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