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The macroeconomic conditions of EU-inspired employment policies

Gács, János - 2005

With its impulses and coordination initiatives the EU makes efforts to influence the employment and labour policies in … market, have been incomplete up to 2005: due to departmentalism reflected in the tensions between the EU institutions … support of the EU-inspired employment policies is theoretically not sound. An example of this is the objective of the Lisbon …

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Legal origin and size effects in European listed firms

Bjuggren, Per-Olof; Högberg, Andreas - 2010 - Work in progress

This paper investigates the impact of legal tradition and firm size on investment performance for firms in 16 European countries. Europe as a region is of special interest in this sense since the legal systems differs widely within a concentrated geographical area. Anglo Saxon, German, French as...

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The struggle of becoming established in a deprived inner-city neighbourhood

May, David - 2003

The theory of established-outsider figurations developed by Norbert Elias is a useful tool for examining deprived neighbourhoods. The case of this paper is Dortmund Nordstadt in Germany, an old inner-city neighbourhood which from its early days has housed the newly arrived immigrants. Elias...

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Common agricultural policy effects on dynamic labour use in agriculture

Petrick, Martin; Zier, Patrick - 2012 - This version: 13 March 2012

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of direct payments and rural development measures of the EU …

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Stochastic process switching and intervention in exchange rate target zones : empirical evidence from the EMS

Weber, Axel A. - 1991

In exchange rate target zone models the commitment of policymakers to intervene at the boundaries of the band gives rise to speculation which stabilizes exchange rates within the band. The empirical implications of such stochastic process switching are discussed and their relevance for the...

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Monetary policy in Europe : towards a European Central Bank and one European currency

Weber, Axel A. - 1993

Most alternative blueprints for European Monetruy Union (EMU) differ in their opinions about convergence requirements or the need for binding fiscal rules and controls of individual national governments' debt policies, but there is, if not complete consensus, widespread agreement that the...

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Exchange rates, target zones and international trade : the importance of the policy making framework

Weber, Axel A. - 1993

Stylized empirical facts about the correlation between the volume of international trade and exchange rate variability/uncertainty are at odds with the predictions of the simple open economy model. The present paper argues that this puzzle may be explained by drawing on the recent theoretical...

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The impact of political announcements on expectations concerning the starting date of the EMU : a microeconometric approach to the detection of event-dependent answering patterns i...

Kaiser, Ulrich - 1997

debate about the convergence criteria at the Amsterdam EU summit, have a positive impact on the probability to expect a …

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Factors influencing tenure choice in European countries

Bazyl, Monika - 2009

Homeownership rates are very different across European countries. They range from below 50% in Germany to over 80% in Greece, Spain or Ireland. However the differences lie not only in the overall homeownership rates but also in its structure, and this is the focus of this paper. Its aim is to...

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Rules versus human beings, and the mandate of the ECB

Fratzscher, Marcel - 2015

The actions by the European Central Bank (ECB) during the global and European crises have triggered a highly controversial debate, in particular in Germany, about the costs and benefits of the chosen policy path. The paper reviews, compares and evaluates the different arguments made in favour...

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