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Trade advantages and specialisation dynamics in acceding countries

Zaghini, Andrea - 2003

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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Import prices and pricing-to-market effects in the euro area

Warmedinger, Thomas - 2004

Pricing-to-market (PTM) behaviour implies that exporters adjust their prices to the prevailing prices in their export markets. For the importing country, PTM effects can be interpreted as a measure of the stability of domestic prices against foreign price and exchange rate developments. PTM...

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Trade with central and eastern Europe

Polgár, Éva Katalin; Wörz, Julia - 2010

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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Is China climbing up the quality ladder?

Pula, Gabor; Santabárbara, Daniel - 2011

There is an ongoing debate in the literature about the quality content of Chinese exports and to what extent China … values reflect quality the prevailing view of the literature is that China exports low quality varieties of the same products …. We derive the quality of Chinese exports to the European Union by estimating disaggregated demand functions from a …

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Evaluation externe de la coopération de l’Union européenne avec la République de Côte d’Ivoire ( 2007 - 2015 ) : Rapport final ; Volume I

Vaillant, Charlotte (contributor); Hennion, Max (contributor) - PARTICIP GmbH Consultants für Entwicklung und Umwelt - 2017

, 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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Identifying fiscal shocks and policy regimes in OECD countries

Arcangelis, Giuseppe de; Lamartina, Serena - 2003

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, for West Germany, France, Italy and US, we econometrically select within a …

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Interpreting implied risk-neutral densities

Hördahl, Peter; Vestin, David - 2003

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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The impact of monetary union on trade prices

Anderton, Robert; Baldwin, Richard E.; Taglioni, Daria - 2003

Two seemingly unconnected empirical results suggest an intriguing mechanism. First, economic integration helps harmonize prices internationally, with trade being the primary channel (Rogoff 1996, Goldberg and Knetter 1997). Second, monetary union may greatly increase the amount of trade among...

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Structures of Education, Vocational Training, and Adult Education, Systems in Europe : Germany ; 2002/2003

Education Information Network in the European Union; … - 2003

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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Option-implied asymmetries in bond market expectations around monetary policy actions of the ECB

Vähämaa, Sami - 2004

This paper uses data on German government bond futures options to examine the behaviour of market expectations around monetary policy actions of the European Central Bank (ECB). In particular, this paper focuses on the asymmetries in bond market expectations, as measured by the skewness of...

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