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Study on Civil Security R&D in major third countries (SER3CO) : Final Report, within the Framework Contract of Security Studies – ENTR/09/050
Ecorys - 2013
Policy attention to the security industry increased substantially after the terrorist attacks in the U.S. on September 11th, 2001. With an increased demand for security, the global security market grew a tenfold to around €100 billion in 2011. Many studies expect that growth of the worldwide...
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A policy for industrial champions
Maincent, Emmanuelle; Navarro, Lluis - 2007
of certain high-tech sectors and the growing productivity gap with the US have raised concerns about the ability of the … pro-market approach to help EU companies withstand international competition. Stylised facts show that the EU does not … explores the contribution of different EU policies – competition, trade and research - to the twin goal of providing a …
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The development of productive structures of EU member states and their international competitiveness : final report
Reinstaller, Andreas - Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) - 2012
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The impact of best available techniques (BAT) on the competitiveness of European industry : November 2001
Hitchens, David; Farrell, Frank; Lindblom, Josefina; … - 2002
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Study on the cost competitiveness of European industry in the globalisation era : empirical evidence on the basis of relative unit labour costs (ULC) at sectoral level ; final repo...
Lewney, Richard (contributor) - ECORYS-NEI <Rotterdam> - 2011
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Developing statistical indicators of the integration of the euro area banking system
Manna,Michele - 2004
This paper discusses a wide range of indicators of the degree of integration of the euro area banking system. It is concerned with volume data, a less developed field of research compared with studies on prices/rates. We first set out a methodological framework, a mixture of elementary and more...
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Stylised features of price setting behaviour in Portugal
Dias, Mónica; Dias, Daniel; Neves, Pedro D. - 2004
This paper identifies the empirical stylized features of price setting behaviour in Portugal using the micro-datasets underlying the consumer and the producer price indexes. The main conclusions are the following: 1 in every 4 prices change each month; there is a considerable degree of...
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Price rigidity
Baudry, Laurent; Le Bihan, Hervé; Sevestre, Patrick; … - 2004
Based upon a large fraction of the price records used for computing the French CPI, we document consumer price rigidity in France. We first provide a methodological discussion of issues involved in estimating average price duration with micro-data. The average duration of prices in the sectors...
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Price setting in France
Loupias, Claire; Ricart, Roland - 2004
This paper reports the results of a survey conducted by the Banque de France during Winter 2003-2004 to investigate the price-setting behavior of French manufacturing companies. Prices are found to adjust infrequently; the median firm modifies its price only once a year. Price reviews are more...
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Pricing payment cards
Bedre-Defolie, Özlem; Calvano, Emilio - 2009
qualitative results are robust to imperfect issuer competition, imperfect acquirer competition, and to other factors affecting …
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