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What do we really know about the transatlantic current account?
Braml, Martin T.; Felbermayr, Gabriel - 2019
Do the U.S. have a current account surplus or a deficit with the EU? Since 2009, official sources disagree: The U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051883
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Brexit : eine "Hard-but-Smart"–Strategie und ihre Folgen
Felbermayr, Gabriel - In: Ifo-Schnelldienst 72 (2019) 4, pp. 27-33
Ein harter Brexit ist für das Vereinigte Königreich sehr viel teurer als für die EU. Mit einer "Hard … grundlegend. Die Analyse legt nahe, dass sich die EU-Kommission nicht stur auf das für London unakzeptable Austrittsabkommen …A hard Brexit would be much more expensive for the UK than for the EU. With a "hard but smart" strategy, on the other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011976745
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Revisiting the euro's trade cost and welfare effects
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Steininger, Marina - 2019
When, about twenty years ago, the Euro was created, one objective was to facilitate intra‐European trade by reducing transaction costs. Has the Euro delivered? Using sectoral trade data from 1995 to 2014 and applying structural gravity modeling, we conduct an ex post evaluation of the European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011987554
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The EU self-surplus puzzle : an indication of VAT fraud?
Braml, Martin; Felbermayr, Gabriel - 2019
of the global surplus is a trade surplus that the EU has with itself. In this paper, we show that this self-surplus of … the EU amounts to a striking 307 billion Euro in 2018. It persists in goods, services, and secondary income accounts. It … EU’s self-surplus quadrupled. Balance of payments data from the United Kingdom appear highly distorted. We argue that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146231
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Regionale Ungleichheit in Deutschland und der EU : was sagen die Daten?
Braml, Martin; Felbermayr, Gabriel - In: Ifo-Schnelldienst 71 (2018) 7, pp. 37-49
2000 verteilt. Die Varianz ist gesunken. Das gilt auch für die 1 300 Regionen der EU – wobei allerdings innerhalb der alten … EU-15-Staaten ein Anstieg der regionalen Ungleichheit zu beobachten ist. Überall gilt: Wegen progressiver Steuern und … verfügbaren Einkommen ist in Deutschland niedriger als in allen großen EU-Staaten. Die Zahlen stützen weder die Behauptung, die …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816436
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Regionale Ungleichheit der Arbeitsproduktivität in Deutschland und der EU : was sagen die Daten?
Braml, Martin; Felbermayr, Gabriel - In: Ifo-Schnelldienst 71 (2018) 10, pp. 26-31
Im ifo Schnelldienst 7/2018 wurde gezeigt, dass die regionale Ungleichheit in Deutschland und der EU, gemessen an der …In ifo Schnelldienst 7/2018 the authors demonstrated that regional inequality in Germany and the EU, measured by the …
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The new institutional economics of antitrust and regulation
Bickenbach, Frank; Kumkar, Lars; Soltwedel, Rüdiger - 1999
competencies in the EU - and presents some implications of NIE for economic policy making, research and advisory activities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490672
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Regulation of Europe's network industries : the perspective of the new economic theory of federalism
Bickenbach, Frank - 2000
The paper starts with a description of major reforms of EU policy in the network industries. Based on the normative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011491086
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Closing the gap between absolute and relative measures of localization, concentration or specialization
Bickenbach, Frank; Bode, Eckhardt; Krieger-Boden, Christiane - 2010
and explore why absolute and relative measures frequently evolve in opposite directions. The paper shows for the EU-15 and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008699611
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Structural cohesion in Europe : stylized facts
Bickenbach, Frank; Bode, Eckhardt; Krieger-Boden, Christiane - 2010
and regions in the EU-15 since 1980. Localization, which nests concentration and specialization, is measured by a Theil … index. The stylized facts reveal a broad aggregate trend towards structural convergence in the EU-15. The by far most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008779975