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EU regional policy : its theoretical foundations and their policy conclusions revisited

Schmidt, Peter - 2014 - Draft

This paper reconsiders the theoretical foundations of EU regional policy in economics. It begins with a discussion of … contrasted with a non-equilibrium economics perspective on EU regional policy. Based on this, the existence of market failures … and the relevance of equilibrium economics for a realistic understanding of and policy advice for EU regional policy are …

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Cohort size and youth unemployment in Europe : a regional analysis

Moffat, John D.; Roth, Duncan - 2014

Will the projected decline in the youth share of European countries' populations alleviate the currently high levels of youth unemployment in Europe? Economic theory predicts that in the absence of perfectly competitive labour markets, changes in the relative size of age groups will cause...

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The impact of environmental innovation on employment growth in Europe

Licht, Georg; Peters, Bettina - 2014

This paper studies the impact of environmental innovation on employment growth using firm-level data for 16 European countries and the period 2006-2008. It extends the model by Harrison et al (2008) in order to distinguish between employment effects of environmental and non-environmental product...

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Subsidiarity integrated BCC-CR : a model of sustainable local finance : 54° European Congress of the Regional Science Association International, August 2014 - San Pietroburgo

Confessore, Giuseppe; Turina, Maurizio; Turina, Sandro; … - 2014

levels of governance is, in fact, a factor of local development able express the potentialities of the territory, the level …

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What explains the diversity of regulatory reform outcomes? : final report

Stankov, Petar; Vasilev, Aleksandar - 2015

We set up a tractable general equilibrium (GE) model to study how output of firms of different size grows after entry and labor reforms. We then take the model predictions to the largest global publicly available firm-level data set: the Enterprise Surveys data. The results demonstrate that...

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Technology adoption, turbulence and the dynamics of unemployment

Duernecker, Georg - 2011

The divergence of unemployment rates between the United States and Europe coincided with a substantial acceleration in capital-embodied technical change in the late 1970s. Evidence suggests that European economies have lagged behind the United States in the adoption and usage of new...

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Identifying the shocks behind business cycle asynchrony in Euroland

Trenkler, Carsten; Weber, Enzo - 2012

This paper investigates which shocks drive asynchrony of business cycles in the euro area. Thereby, it unites two strands of literature, those on common features and on structural VAR analysis. In particular, we show that the presence of a common cycle implies collinearity of structural impulse...

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Public policy for the agro-food industry and economic performance of enterprises : evidences from Piedmont, Italy

Pagliarino, Elena; Cariola, Monica; Pavone, Sara; … - 2014

The European Union has a common rural development policy, motivated by the fact that more than 90% of the entire European territory can be classified as rural and 56% of European citizens live in rural areas. Each Member State sets out a Rural Development Programme (RDP) focused on three main...

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Domestic product standards and free trade areas : implications for the EU-Japan FTA

Yanase, Akihiko; Kurata, Hiroshi - 2014

This study considers endogenous determination of domestic standards on products that cause negative consumption externalities in the presence of a preferential trade agreement (PTA) in a three-country world. In particular, we examine how a PTA affects the optimal levels of external tariffs and...

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Smart specialisation in the EU : is it a bridge between innovation and cohesion?

Pessoa, Argentino - 2014

Current innovation policy is the result of decades of research about the nature and role of innovation in economic growth. Such investigation has contributed to redesign our knowledge not only on the role played by innovation in economic development but also about the relationship between...

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