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During the First World War, the film industry of the major European countries experienced a lasting crisis, which necessitated significant restructuring and prompted appeals for state intervention to counterbalance the invasion of American films. As the extent of this crisis did not affect all...
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Replacing the US nuclear guarantee with a French nuclear umbrella for Europe would face major political and logistical … challenges. Nevertheless, given the growing uncertainty in Europe and Asia, the German government should consider scenarios and … options that go beyond today's deterrence architecture. Above all, it is conceivable that France would play a more visible …
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competitiveness seems to have fallen off the EU map. This Agenda had its flaws, but it rightly sought to make Europe "the most … competitive and dynamic knowledge-economy in the world". The impression now is that Europe is on the retreat and the current … policy. With the strong economic headwinds facing Europe and the world, the EU needs to pursue structural economic reforms …
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The paper introduces a specification of the demand side which allows RPM to have different effects on prices and on service, which may increase or decrease due to RPM. A feature of the model which deviates from those found in the literature is due to the introduction of a class of consumers who...
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Proponents of RPM argue that RPM helps to sustain a high level of service at the point of sale and that such a high level is efficient. This paper provides a simple model which leads to the following conclusions: 1) RPM may increase or decrease the level of service. 2) Whether the service level...
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The US Supreme Court's overruling of the pre-existing per se illegality of resale price maintenance and the recommendation of a rule of reason approach in the Leegin decision (2007), raise the question whether other jurisdictions should follow this approach and what future assessments of resale...
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-negligible importance in explaining international heterogeneity in happiness. In some countries, such as France, they are responsible for 80 …
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Gibt es eine europäische Identität? Der Begriff "europäisch" hängt davon ab, was der Einzelne unter "Europa" versteht … Konzepte definiert werden. Oft ist es eine sehr individuelle Mischung aus allen Konzepten. Manchmal wird "Europa" auch als … Synonym für "die EU" verwendet. Diese Arbeit versucht jedoch weder "Europa" noch "europäisch" zu definieren. Das Ziel dieser …
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sector and the effectiveness of governmental responses in the UK and in Europe, the article focuses on the visual arts and …
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the adjustment of manufacturing employment and hours in West Germany, France and Belgium, three countries with strong job … regulations that occurred in Germany, France and Belgium during the 1980s affected employers' adjustment to changes in output …
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