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EU Integration and its Implications for Asian Economies – What we Know and What Not

Langhammer, Rolf J.; Schweickert, Rainer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006

In this paper, we analyse effects of EU integration on Asian countries. Since the early 1990s, it is especially the trade creation effect of monetary integration (so-called Rose effect) which is heavily debated in the literature. Recent papers seem to indicate that the Rose effect seems to be...

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The Economic Integration of Forced Migrants. Evidence for Post-War Germany

Bauer, Thomas; Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

The flight and expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe during and after World War II constitutes one of the largest forced population movements in history. We analyze the economic integration of these forced migrants and their offspring in West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even a...

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Unionisation Structures and Heterogeneous Firms

Braun, Sebastian - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

The effects of unions on productivity and firm performance have been the topic of extensive research. Existing studies have, however, primarily focused on firm-level bargaining and on markets that are characterised by a small and fixed number of identical firms. This paper studies how different...

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Government Activity and Economic Growth – One Size Fits All?

Beckmann, Joscha; Endrich, Marek; Schweickert, Rainer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

This study investigates the role of government activity in economic growth, arguing that economic systems are important and that, therefore, one size of government does not fit all countries. Taking a panel of 111 countries over the years from 1971 to 2010, we consider clusters of economic...

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External Drivers of Institutional Change in Central Asia – Regional Integration Schemes and the Role of Russia and China

Schweickert, Rainer; Melnykovska, Inna; Plamper, Hedwig - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

Russia and China are assumed to challenge democratization and to promote autocracy. In a first step, we analyze Central … Asia as the most-likely case, considering both Russia and China as relevant external actors. We develop a concept for our … analysis based on the different strategies of Russia (dominance) and China (doing-business) towards the region and present the …

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