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Neo-Protectionism and the European Lobbies

Belloc, Marianna - CESifo - 2014

just signaling for active involvement in lobbying action, since we find evidence that actual meeting attendance has a …

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Neo-Protectionism and the European Lobbies

Belloc, Marianna - 2014

just signaling for active involvement in lobbying action, since we find evidence that actual meeting attendance has a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051609

Friends without Benefits? New EMU Members and the ‘Euro Effect’ on Trade

Mika, Alina - 2017

We re-visit the evidence about the trade benefits of European Monetary Union (EMU), focusing on the experience of countries which adopted the common currency since 2002. Based on “state of the art” gravity estimations for the period 1992-2013, we reach three main conclusions. First,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962673

FDI, Trade Integration and the Border Effect : Evidence from the European Union

Martinez-San Roman, Valeriano - 2014

This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern – horizontal versus vertical – within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051267

Money Can't Buy EU Love : European Funds and the Brexit Referendum

Fidrmuc, Jan - 2016

We explore the role of the transfers that UK regions received from the European structural and cohesion funds, as well as other economic and social factors, in determining the support for the Remain vote in the Brexit referendum, and that past European transfers have played virtually no role in...

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FDI, Trade Integration and the Border Effect: Evidence from the European Union

Román, Valeriano Martínez-San; Bengoa, Marta; … - CESifo - 2014

This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern –horizontal versus vertical– within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790167

International Trade Integration : A Disaggregated Approach

Chen, Natalie - 2013

This paper investigates the sources and size of trade barriers at the industry level. We derive a micro-founded measure of industry-specific bilateral trade integration that has an in-built control for time-varying multilateral resistance. This trade integration measure is consistent with a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753160

Why 'Buy American' is a Bad Idea but Politicians Still Like It

Larch, Mario - 2010

up with two rationales that help to understand why countries nevertheless consider protectionism to be a good response to … a recession: (i) the lobbying of domestic, non-exporting firms, and (ii) the relationship between vulnerability, the …

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Can Lower Tax Rates Be Bought? Business Rent-Seeking and Tax Competition Among U.S. States

Chirinko, Robert S. - 2010

allowing for the possibility that policymakers also may be influenced by the rent-seeking (lobbying) behavior of businesses …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141085

Lobbying for Education in a Two-Sector Model

Di Gioacchino, Debora - 2011

of education complementary to their production. Lobbying is endogenous. We show that, if lobbying is not costly, both … social planner. However, if lobbying is costly, only one sector finds it profitable to offer monetary contribution and direct … resources towards the type of education required by its production. Which sector will engage in lobbying depends on relative …

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