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The objective of this paper is to show how to initiate a market for carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by introducing a feasible system of tradeable emission permits, which can be applied as an efficient instrument of environmental policy in single countries and in the whole European...
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The prospects for labour supply in Europe are considered. The analysis begins with a so-called labour market balance covering the development on an aggregate level. Estimations to shed light on the relation between unemployment and labour force participation are given in the second part of the...
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This paper offers a quantitative description of European private equity markets and compares the recent development in these markets with the development of the US venture capital market. Moreover, the paper addresses the differences between private equity investors acting in a single national...
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Despite the single currency, yields on government bonds in the Euro Area deviate from German bond yields. These bond spreads are usually attributed to differing default and liquidity risks. Recent research points out that time-varying global factors, approximated by risk measures or short term...
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The member states of the European Union have given up sovereignty in quite a number of policy areas and subjected themselves to joint decisionmaking at the European level. Policy instruments are no longer available nationally in many policy areas, including monetary policy, trade policy, the...
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Since the start of European monetary union, the macroeconomic situation in Germany can in many respects only be … model is constructed that models the euro area as consisting of two regions, Germany and the rest of the euro area. The rest … monetary policy or of exchange rate changes on economic activity in Germany and the euro area. …
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“growth gap” between Germany and the rest of the EMU can be related to the difference in the relation of government … expenditures to GDP. This relation was more or less constant in Germany in the nineties, whereas it declined significantly in the …Das reale Bruttoinlandsprodukt nahm in den neunziger Jahren in Deutschland je Jahr um etwa einen halben Prozentpunkt …
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This paper provides new evidence on Europe's experience with venture capital in the 1990s. Individual countries' activity is not solely determined by country characteristics and a purely domestic history, but also by a common European experience: the interdependence of valuations in primary...
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major subsegments of the electrical industry is analysed in more detail for the case of West Germany. …
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