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Does a renewable fuel standard for biofuels reduce climate costs?
Greaker, Mads; Hoel, Michael; Rosendahl, Knut Einar - 2014
Recent literature on biofuels has questioned whether biofuels policies are likely to reduce the negative effects of climate change. In this paper we make two contributions to the literature. First, we study the market effects of a renewable fuel standard in a dynamic model taking into account...
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Getting the most from public R&D spending in times of austerity : some insights from SIMPATIC analysis
Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2016
-research performed within SIMPATIC (www.simpatic.eu). To analyse the impact of public R&D on growth, we need to complement the micro … GDP growth and jobs in applied macro-models most commonly used in EU policy analysis. We focus particularly on the NEMESIS …
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Macroeconomic and financial effects of oil price shocks : evidence for the Euro area
Morana, Claudio - 2016
The paper investigates the macroeconomic and financial effects of oil prices shocks in the euro area since its creation in 1999, with a special focus on the recent slump. The analysis is carried out episode by episode, within a time-varying parameter framework, consistent with the view that "not...
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Labor market reforms in Europe : towards more flexicure labor markets?
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Wehner, Caroline - 2016
Labor market segmentation refers to a salient divide between secure and insecure jobs and is related to problems in important areas, including macro‐economic efficiency, workers' wellbeing and repercussions for social cohesion. European countries have started a new wave of labor market reforms...
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Country-level effects of the ECB's expanded asset purchase programme
Zlobins, Andrejs - 2019
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B for Brexit : a survey of the economics academic literature
Campos, Nauro - 2019
. The two building blocks to understand Brexit are the economic history of the UK-EU relationship and the literature on the … the UK benefited from EU integration (trade, migration and FDI). Next it surveys the short-run effects of the vote and …
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The real effects of EU loan guarantee schemes for SMEs: a pan-European assessment
Brault, Julien; Signore, Simone - 2019
This paper provides a pan-European assessment of EU credit guarantees to SMEs. Synthesizing past research, it … investigates the firm-level economic impact of over 360,000 guaranteed loans under the EU MAP and CIP programmes from 2002 to 2016 …
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Europe in the midst of China-US strategic competition : what are the European Union’s options?
García Herrero, Alicia - 2019
-led trade war against China and its immediate consequences for China, the US and the EU. Although protectionism can never be … concentrated in sectors that are also key for the EU’s exports to China, with the exception of energy and agricultural products … for the US but also for the EU and the rest of the world. Against this background, this paper reviews the EU’s options in …
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Does integration policy integrate? : the employment effects of Sweden's 2010 reform of the introduction program
Qi, Haodong; Irastorza, Nahikari; Emilsson, Henrik; … - 2019
Sweden, like many other European countries, has seen a surge in refugee immigrants over recent years, which raises a concern about the labour market integration of these newcomers. This paper investigates whether integration policy may improve refugees' labour market performance. Specifically,...
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Youth unemployment and active labor market policies in Europe
Caliendo, Marco; Schmidl, Ricarda - 2015 - Forthcoming in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015
Since the economic crisis in 2008, European youth unemployment rates have been persistently high at around 20% on average. The majority of European countries spends significant resources each year on active labor market programs (ALMP) with the aim of improving the integration prospects of...
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