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The paper analyses the evolution of the trade specialisation pattern in the ten countries which will join the EU in 2004, by studying the dynamics of their comparative advantages over the period 1993-2000. The study finds that, although some countries are still broadly relying on natural...
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Pricing-to-market (PTM) behaviour implies that exporters adjust their prices to the prevailing prices in their export … perspective, for both individual countries and the euro area as a whole. Analysis firstly involves the estimation of PTM effects …
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This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing industries) in 25 EU countries over the period from 1995 to 2005. By applying a cross-country and industry-specific approach, it is possible to control for unobserved heterogeneity at...
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There is an ongoing debate in the literature about the quality content of Chinese exports and to what extent China … imposes a threat to the market positions of advanced economies. While China’s export structure is very similar to that of the … advanced world, its export unit values are well below the level of developed economies. Building on the assumption that unit …
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This paper employs stochastic simulations of a small structural rational expectations model to investigate the consequences of the zero bound on nominal interest rates. We find that if the economy is subject to stochastic shocks similar in magnitude to those experienced in the U.S. over the...
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, including within the context of joint programming between the EU, France, Germany and Spain. The scope of the study covers all …
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The aim of this paper is twofold. First, for West Germany, France, Italy and US, we econometrically select within a …
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This paper examine differences between risk-neutral and objective probability densities of future interest rates. The identification and quantification of these differences are important when risk-neutral densities (RNDs), such as option-implied RNDs, are used as indicators of actual beliefs of...
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and export price channel which, in turn, would tend to homogenise price movements across the member countries of a …
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Strukturen der allgemeinen und beruflichen Bildung und der Erwachsenenbildung in Europa Wer die allgemeine Organisation der Bildungssysteme in Europa kennen lernen möchte, findet die entsprechende Basisinformation in den ca. 40-Seiten umfassenden Länderberichten. Diese Monografien werden...
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