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Do Stringent Environmental Policies Deter FDI? M&A versus Greenfield
Bialek, Sylwia - 2015
This study examines how environmental stringency affects the location decision of foreign direct investments. We analyze a firm-level data set on German outbound FDI and innovate on previous studies by controlling for the mode of entry and applying the mixed-logit analysis. The results show that...
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Pollution, Shadow Economy and Corruption : Theory and Evidence
Biswas, Amit K. - 2013
We study how the shadow economy affects pollution and how this effect depends on corruption levels in public administration. Production in the shadow economy allows firms to avoid environmental regulation policies; a large informal sector may be accompanied by higher pollution levels. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092159
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Consistency and Viability of Capitalist Economic Systems
Marangos, John - 2013
Consistency and Viability of Capitalist Economic Systems develops an original analytical framework to understand the relationship between the economic, political, and ideological structures, the external environment, and the process of reform that give rise to certain economic systems by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012106332
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European responses to globalization and financial market integration : perceptions of economic and monetary union in Britain, France and Germany
Verdun, Amy - 2000
This book investigates the perceptions of political actors towards the creation of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in Europe. The research is largely based on personal interviews conducted with key informants in central banks, finance ministries, employers' organizations and trade unions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612318
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The Trade Impact of European Union Preferential Policies : An Analysis Through Gravity Models
De Benedictis, Luca - 2011
Introduction -- EU Preferential Trading Arrangements: Evolution, Content and Use -- EU Preferential Margins …: Measurement and Aggregation Issues -- The Gravity Model in International Trade -- Trade Impact of EU Preferential Policies: a Meta …-analysis of the Literature -- Trade Impact of EU Preferences -- Analysing the Impact of Everything but Arms Initative Using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014425367
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Inflation Expectations and Inflation Uncertainty in the Eurozone : Evidence from Survey Data
Arnold, Ivo J.M. - 2013
This paper uses the European Commission's Consumer Survey to assess whether inflation expectations have converged and whether inflation uncertainty has diminished following the introduction of the Euro in Europe. Consumers' responses to the survey suggest that inflation expectations depend more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754359
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The Determinants of Economic Growth in European Regions
Cuaresma, Jesús Crespo - 2009
countries is mostly a characteristic of regions in old EU member states. We also find robust evidence of positive growth of …
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Estimating the Trade and Welfare Effects of Brexit : A Panel Data Structural Gravity Model
Oberhofer, Harald - 2018
different counterfactual post-Brexit scenarios, our main findings suggest that UKs (EUs) exports of goods to the EU (UK) are … effects for the EU are negligible in magnitude and statistically not different from zero …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926575
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How Will Brexit Affect Tax Competition and Tax Harmonization? The Role of Discriminatory Taxation
Fuest, Clemens - 2018
This paper develops a model of tax competition with three countries, which initially form a union where countries refrain from using different tax rates in different sectors of the economy. We study the impact of one country leaving the union. We show that the introduction of discriminatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927512
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Did Austerity Cause Brexit?
Fetzer, Thiemo - 2018
the single most important correlate of the subsequent Leave vote in the 2016 European Union (EU) referendum, along with … specific welfare reforms as well as broader measures of political preferences. The results suggest that the EU referendum could …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910997