Working Documents

ENEPRI Working Papers constitute dissemination to a wider public of research undertaken and already published by ENEPRI partner member institutes on their own account.
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• Economic Impact of Regulation in the Field of Liberal Professions in Different Member States, Iain Paterson, Marcel Fink, Anthony Ogus et al., ENEPRI Working Paper No. 52, February 2007
• Financial Structure and its Impact on the Convergence of Interest Rate Pass-through in Europe: A Time-varying Interest Rate Pass-through Model, Wolfgang Schwarzbauer, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 51, February 2007
• Voting Power Derives from the Poll Distribution: Shedding Light on Contentious Issues of Weighted Votes and the Constitutional Treaty, Iain Paterson, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 50, February 2007
• Alternative Tax-Benefit Strategies to Support Children in the European Union: Recent Reforms in Austria, Spain and the UK, Horacio Levy, Christine Lietz and Holly Sutherland, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 49, February 2007
• Household Incomes and Redistribution in the European Union: Quantifying the Equalising Properties of Taxes and Benefits, H. Immervoll, H. Levy, C. Lietz, D. Mantovani, C. O’Donoghue, H. Sutherland and G. Verbist, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 48, February 2007
• Agency Costs and Investment Behaviour, Viktor Dorofeenko, Gabriel S. Lee and Kevin D. Salyer, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 47, February 2007
• Europe's Financial Perspectives in Perspective, George Gelauff, Herman Stolwijk and Paul Veenendaal, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 46, April 2006
• Compensation of Regional Unemployment in Housing Markets, Wouter Vermeulen and Jos van Ommeren, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 45, April 2006
• The Trade-Induced Effects of the Services Directive and the Country-of-Origin Principle, Roland de Bruijn, Henk Kox and Arjan Lejour, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 44, April 2006
• Knowledge Capital as the Source of Growth, Hannu Piekkola, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 43, March 2006
• Environmental Policy Competition and Differential Tax Treatment: A Case for Tighter Coordination?, Richard Nahuis and Paul J. G. Tang, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 42, February 2006
• From Bound Duties to Actual Protection: Industrial Liberalisation in the Doha Round, Mohamed Hedi Bchir, Lionel Fontagné and Sébastien Jean, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 41, November 2005
• Tax Competition and Public Input, Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Nicolas Gobalraja and Alain Trannoy, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 40, October 2005
• Impact of Public R&D Financing on Employment , Jyrki Ali-Yrkkö, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 39, August 2005
• Human Capital, R&D and Competition in Macroeconomic Analysis, Erik Canton, Bert Minne, Ate Nieuwenhuis, Bert Smid and Marc van der Steeg, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 38, August 2005
• Hub-and-Spoke or Else? Free Trade Agreements in the Enlarged EU – A Gravity Model Estimate, Luca De Benedictis, Roberta De Santis and Claudio Vicarelli, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 37, June 2005
• Economic Effects of Free Trade between the EU and Russia, Pekka Sulamaa and Mika Widgrén, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 36, May 2005
• Is the European Economy a Patient and the Union its Doctor? On Jobs and Growth in Europe, Sjef Ederveen, Albert van der Horst and Paul Tang, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 35, April 2005
• Speed of Convergence and Relocation – New EU Member Countries Catching up with the Old, Kari E.O. Alho, Ville Kaitila and Mika Widgrén, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 34, April 2005
• A Gravity Model under Monopolistic Competition, Kari E.O. Alho, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 33, March 2005
• Financial Consequences of Widowhood in Europe: Cross-Country and Gender Differences, Namkee Ahn, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 32, March 2005
• Integration and Conditional Convergence in the Enlarged EU Area, Ville Kaitila, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 31, February 2005
• Impact of Public R&D Financing on Private R&D: Does Financial Constraint Matter?, Jyrki Ali-Yrkkö, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 30, February 2005
• The Impact of Unemployment on Individual Well-Being in the EU, Namkee Ahn, Juan Ramón García and Juan Francisco Jimeno, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 29, July 2004
• Has Trade any Importance in the Transmission of Currency Shocks?, Roberta De Santis, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 28, July 2004
• Can Labour Market Institutions Explain Unemployment Rates in New EU Member States?, Sjef Ederveen and Laura Thissen, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 27, June 2004
• Factor Mobility and Regional Disparities: East, West, Home’s Best?, Richard Nahuis and Ashok Parikh, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 26, January 2004
• Convergence of Real GDP per Capita in the EU15: How do the accession countries fit in?, Ville Kaitila, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 25, January 2004
• Time-Varying Nairu and Real Interest Rates in the Euro Area, Camille Logeay and Silke Tober, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 24, October 2003
• Back on Track? Savings Puzzles in EU Accession Countries, Mechthild Schrooten and Sabine Stephan, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 23, October 2003
• Structural Estimates of Equilibrium Unemployment in Six OECD Economies, Albert van der Horst, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 22, July 2003
• Fiscal Policy in the New Open Economy Macroeconomics and Prospects for Fiscal Policy Coordination, Leonor Coutinho, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 21, June 2003
• European Wage Coordination: Nightmare or dream to come true?, Alain Borghijs, Sjef Ederveen and Ruud de Mooij, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 20, June 2003
• Youth Unemployment in the OECD: Demographic Shifts, Labour Market Institutions and Macroeconomic Shocks, Juan F. Jimeno and Diego Rodríguez-Palenzuela, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 19, March 2003
• Convergence in Social Protection across EU Countries, 1970-1999, Simón Sosvilla-Rivero, José A. Herce and Juan-José de Lucio, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 18, March 2003
• The Impact of the Euro on Trade: The (Early) Effect Is Not So Large, Sergio de Nardis and Claudio Vicarelli, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 17, February 2003
• Mutual Recognition in Goods and Services, Jacques Pelkmans, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 16, March 2003
• Estimating the Effects of Fiscal Policy in OECD Countries, Roberto Perotti, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 15, October 2002
• How to Finance Eastern Enlargement of the EU: The Need to Reform EU Policies and the Consequences for the Net Contributor Balance, Christian Weise, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 14, October 2002
• Mutual Recognition, Unemployment and the Welfare State, Fiorella Kostoris Padoa Schioppa, ENEPRI Working Paper No. 13, September 2002
• Internal Migration in Regions of Germany: A Panel Data Analysis, Ashok Parikh and Michiel Van Leuvensteijn, ENEPRI Working Paper No.12, September 2002
• Interdependent Growth in the EU: The Role of Trade, María Garcia-Vega and José A. Herce, ENEPRI Working Paper No.11, August 2002
• Equilibrium Rates and Wage Flexibility in Europe, R.C.M.H. Douven, ENEPRI Working Paper No.10, August 2002
• Midlife Caregiving and Employment: An Analysis of Adjustments in Work Hours and Informal Care for Female Employees in Europe, C. Katharina Spiess and Ulrike Schneider, ENEPRI Working Paper No.9, February 2002
• Turkey's Performance in Attracting Direct Foreign Investment: Implications for EU Enlargement, Henry Loewendahl and Ebru Ertugal-Loewendahl, ENEPRI Working Paper No.8, November 2001
• Is the ECB Sufficiently Accountable and Transparent?, Lorenzo Bini-Smaghi and Daniel Gros, ENEPRI Working Paper No.7, September 2001
• Maastricht and the Choice of Exchange Rate Regime in Transition Countries during the Run-up to EMU, György Szapáry, ENEPRI Working Paper No.6, May 2001
• What Drove Relative Wages in France? Structural Decomposition Analysis in a General Equilibrium Framework 1970-92, Sébastien Jean and Olivier Bontout, ENEPRI Working Paper No.5, September 2001
• Foreign Direct Investment and Company Taxation in Europe, Agnès Benassy-Quéré, Lionel Fontagné and Amina Lahrèche-Révil, ENEPRI Working Paper No.4, April 2001
• European Labour Markets and the Euro: How much flexibility do we really need?, Michael Burda, ENEPRI Working Paper No.3, March 2001
• Asymmetric labour markets in a converging Europe: Do differences matter?, Ray Barrell and Karen Dury (NIESR), ENEPRI Working Paper No.2, January 2001
• Fiscal federalism in Western European and selected other countries: Centralisation or decentralization? What is better for economic growth?, Ulrich Thiessen, ENEPRI Working Paper No.1, January 2001

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