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A Consumers Demand Model with "Energy Flows", Stocks and "Energy Services"

Kratena, Kurt; Wüger, Michael - 2004

This paper sets up a model of private consumption for selected EU countries with special emphasis on the consumption categories heating and transport. Sustainable consumption patterns require a "decoupling" of energy or materials use from satisfaction of consumers' needs and demands. Starting...

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Community Size, Heterogeneity and Voter Turnouts

Kaniovski, Serguei; Mueller, Dennis C. - 2005

Numerous studies have found a negative relationship between the closeness of an election, the size of the electorate and voter turnout. It is often claimed that this relationship supports the rational voter hypothesis, with closeness and size proxying for the decisiveness of a vote. We offer a...

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Market Potential and Border Effects in Europe

Pfaffermayr, Michael; Huber, Peter; Wolfmayr, Yvonne - 2004

spatial econometric estimation approach, border effects can be identified by a differential impact of neighboring regions … significant border effects between EU15 and non-EU15 countries. Our estimation results suggests that the enlargement of the EU on …

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Employment Effects of Outsourcing to Low Wage Countries. Empirical Evidence for EU Countries

Falk, Martin; Wolfmayr, Yvonne - 2005

This paper investigates the impact of international outsourcing on total employment using two-digit manufacturing data for seven EU countries for the period of 1995-2000. As is common in other empirical work, international outsourcing is measured as imports in intermediate imports. Estimates...

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Structural Preconditions of City Competitiveness. Some Empirical Results for European Cities

Mayerhofer, Peter - 2005

Driven by growing internationalisation and high unemployment in Europe concerns about competition between regions and …

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The Impact of Participation in R&D Programs on R&D Partnerships

Busom, Isabel; Fernández-Ribas, Andrea - 2005

Research and innovation partnerships involving firms or firms and public research organizations (PROs) have been increasing over the last twenty years in OECD countries. In this paper we present empirical evidence about the impact of government sponsored R&D programs on firms' partnership...

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Components of the Profitability of Technical Currency Trading

Schulmeister, Stephan - 2005

This paper investigates the sources of the profitability of 1024 moving average and momentum models when trading in the German mark (euro)/U.S. dollar market based on daily data. The main results are as follows. First, each of these models would have been profitable over the entire sample...

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The Interaction between Technical Currency Trading and Exchange Rate Fluctuations

Schulmeister, Stephan - 2005

This paper examines the mutually reinforcing interactions between exchange rate dynamics and technical trading strategies. I first show that technical trading systems have been quite profitable during the floating rate period. This profitability stems from the successful exploitation of...

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Incomes Policies, Expectations and the NAIRU

Pollan, Wolfgang - 2006

unemployment. It is paradoxical that the literature on the NAIRU, an economic indicator that has been developed explicitly to guide … that affect the labour market and the wage and price setting system. Disregard of these policy measures in the estimation … of the natural rate of unemployment will yield biased estimates of this variable and its relation to unemployment. These …

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Patterns and Determinants of Price Changes: Analysing Individual Consumer Prices in Austria

Baumgartner, Josef; Glatzer, Ernst; Rumler, Fabio; … - 2006

We provide empirical evidence on the degree and characteristics of price rigidity in Austria by estimating the average frequency of price changes and the duration of price spells from a large data set of individual price records collected for the computation of the Austrian CPI.

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