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We investigate the convergence process among EU regions between 1980-2002 taking into account the effects of spatial …
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We investigate the convergence process among EU regions between 1980-2002 taking into account the effects of spatial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295468
The paper surveys the main trends of per capita income convergence in the European Union. It stresses that income … disparities have ceased to diminish across the European regions since 1980, although convergence between countries has continued … behind income convergence are analized by means of the decomposition of per capita income in labor productivity and …
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Main trends of per capita income convergence in Portugal and the European Union are surveyed. An explanation is given … to the fact that in the last two decades countries have converged, while no visible convergence has taken place among the … distribution of the stock of existing firms in the European Union is fixed, it is assumed that the degree of convergence follows …
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in the analysis of the convergence process of European Union (EU15) regions by systematically applying a method to … results suggest that convergence pattern of EU regions depends on the spatial scale of analysis and that convergence occurs …
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analyses. This is the reason why convergence represents a crucial issue of intense research since the early 1990s. Although … European studies is to examine not only chronologically the process of convergence, but also spatially. This is because spatial … to extend the investigation of convergence across the EU27 regions during 2000-2010 by taking into account the spatial …
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analyses. This is the reason why convergence represents a crucial issue of intense research since the early 1990s. Although … European studies is to examine not only chronologically the process of convergence, but also spatially. This is because spatial … to extend the investigation of convergence across the EU27 regions during 2000-2010 by taking into account the spatial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272128
We investigate the convergence process among EU regions between 1980-2002 taking into account the effects of spatial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005320486
In this paper, we pursue several goals; we first check if the downward trend in corporate income tax rates in Europe reflects a strategy of tax competition, and not a "yardstick competition" in neighboring countries. We estimate the scale of fiscal externalities on neighboring countries in terms...
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This paper contribtes to the small empirical literature dealing with strategic tax behaviors of small EU countries. We estimate tax reaction functions of national governments competing with each other. Deriving a simple model of tax competition in a Nash and Stackelberg framework, we use panel...
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