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Which conflicts can the European neighbourhood policy help resolve?

Thorvaldur Gylfason; Wijkman, Per Magnus - 2012

the European Union's neighbourhood? In the spirit of Montesquieu and Monnet, the basic hypothesis of the EU is that closer … prosperity and detente. The EU has a strong motive in this, since conflicts in its neighbourhood spill-over into the EU itself …, strong intraregional trade, and the prospect of accession to the EU. It concludes that the EU's Member States must give …

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Income and happiness across Europe : do reference values matter?

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Georgellis, Yannis; … - 2007

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Phasing out nuclear power in Europe

Aune, Finn Roar; Golombek, Rolf; Hallre, Hilde - 2015

We explore the impact of an EU-wide nuclear phase-out by 2030 provided the EU energy and climate policy for 2030 is …. Whereas the 2030 EU target for the renewable share in final energy demand is (at least) 27 percent, we find that after a …

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European identity and redistributive preferences

Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A. - 2015

How important is spatial identity in shifting preferences for redistribution? This paper takes advantage of within-country variability in the adoption of a single currency as an instrument to examine the impact of the rescaling of spatial identity in Europe. We draw upon data from the last three...

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On the roles of different foreign currencies in European bank lending

Krogstrup, Signe; Tille, Cédric - 2015

We draw on a new data set on the use of Swiss francs and other currencies by European banks to assess the patterns of foreign currency bank lending. We show that the patterns differ sharply across foreign currencies. The Swiss franc is used predominantly for lending to residents, especially...

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Short run effects of bleaker prospects for oligopolistic producers of a non-renewable resource

Grimsrud, Kristine M.; Rosendahl, Knut Einar; … - 2014

In a non-renewable resource market with imperfect competition, both the resource rent and current prices influence a large resource owner's optimal supply. New information regarding future market conditions that affect the resource rent will consequently impact current supply. Bleaker demand...

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The crisis and regional resilience in Europe : on the importance of urbanization and specialization

Steven, Brakman; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2014 - This version:, March 2014

Using a rich data set on the EU regions, we analyze the relevance of two possible determinants of a region's resilience … that started in 2008, as our shock and then analyze how the NUTS II EU regions differ in their resilience to the crisis in … terms of unemployment and real GDP per capita. In prior research it has been well established that (EU) regions differ in …

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European unemployment revisited : shocks, institutions, integration

Bertola, Giuseppe - 2016

This paper painstakingly restores a vintage empirical model of unemployment determination by interacting shocks and institutions, and runs it on recent data featuring dramatic shocks and controversial institutional change. Theoretical insights and empirical results suggest that reforms and...

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Drawbridges down : altruism and immigration preferences

Hansen, Ole-Petter Moe; Legge, Stefan - 2016

preferences over immigration. Using data from the European Social Survey from 2014 and 2015, our results document that individual …

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Land, men, taxation : an application to pre-modern China and Europe ; Erik Jones' European miracle revisited

Blankart, Charles B. - 2014

Eric Jones has found that excessive taxes were detrimental for pre-modern China's economic growth whereas moderate taxes were conducive for Europe's economic growth. This paper provides a political-economic answer to the question why these two tax systems came about. Taxation is only feasible...

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