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Within the economic profession, it is a widely held view that the fiscal criteria of the Maastricht treaty are arbitrary numbers without economic foundation. Much of this criticism seems to overlook an important aspect - the strategic dimension of the criteria. This paper focuses on one...
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construct a unique matrix of online B2C domestic and cross-border trade in goods between the 27 EU Member States. We compare … market like the EU, online home market bias remains high compared to bias in offline cross-border trade. We conclude that it …
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This note presents a non-technical summary of the latest economic research studies on cross-border e-commerce in the EU … recent research together in a coherent framework and make it accessible to stakeholders and decision-makers involved in EU … policy-making on the Digital Agenda for Europe and the EU Digital Single Market. …
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An important EU Digital Single Market policy objective is to achieve an open and integrated market for online e …-commerce in the EU, to make it easy for consumers to go outside their domestic market and shop online in other EU Member States … home bias in online shopping in the EU. It compares how much EU Member States trade domestically and with other Member …
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This paper investigates price differences between online and offline retail channels in the EU Digital Single Market …. Using price and sales data for ten household appliances product categories sold both offline and online in 21 EU countries …-commerce increases consumer surplus by €34 billion or 0.3% of EU-27 GDP. Full online price convergence across the EU towards the lowest …
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Between 2009 and 2012 the percentage of online consumers in the EU who made online purchases in another EU Member State … increased from 8 to 11 per cent, below the target of 20 per cent put forward in the EU Digital Agenda. Both, subjective …
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consumption: cross-border trade costs. We use data on cross-border e-commerce between EU Member States to estimate the implied … channels is generally positive for EU Member States, ranging between 0.07 and 0.25 per cent of GDP. As such, this paper adds an …
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The EU seeks to create a seamless online Digital Single Market for media products such as digital music and film. The … empirical evidence on the extent of market segmentation in the EU on the supply and demand side and measures the contribution of … several drivers of this market segmentation. We use data from the Apple iTunes country stores in 27 EU Member States to …
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goods and services in other EU Member States. It relies on data from a consumer survey carried out in February-March 2015 in … the EU28. By comparing named websites with respondents' answers on the location of web shops, we find that 77% correctly …
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