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The European structural and investment funds and public investment in the EU countries
Public investment is low and has declined in many EU countries since the global financial crisis. This paper estimates the effects of the various...
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The EU Structural Funds and trust in politicians: another unwanted outcome?
Amidst concerns about the effectiveness of the EU Structural Funds and discoveries of their unintended effects, could it be that they also undermine...
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Understanding EU regional macroeconomic tip** points using panel threshold technique
The primary objective of the European Union has been to bring cohesion among its member states and their respective regions. This has led the...
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Firm Size, Productivity, EU Funds, and Corruption
The Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting economic crisis have led to structural rearrangements in the business sector. Most companies were hit by the...
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Distributing the European structural and investment funds from a conflicting claims approach
In order to support economic development across all European Union regions, €351.8 billion –almost a third of the total EU budget– has been set aside...
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Determinants of partial versus full cross-border acquisitions for Sovereign Wealth Funds
In this paper, we investigate the determinants of equity shares purchased by Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs). Based on the literature of cross-border...
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Meeting investor outflows in Czech bond and equity funds: horizontal or vertical?
This paper explores liquidity management practices in Czech open-ended bond and equity funds. I reconstruct cash flows stemming from investors and...
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Sustainability Disclosure in the EU Financial Sector
This chapter analyses and discusses the European Union (EU) Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). The aim is twofold. On the one hand, it...
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Positive externalities of the EU cohesion policy: Toward more synchronised CEE countries?
The aim of this paper is to examine the role of the payments from the European Cohesion Policy (ECP) in the business cycle synchronisation of the...
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Threats of sovereign debt overhang in the EU, the new fiscal rules and the perils of policy drift
After the Great Recession and the Covid Crisis the sovereign debt sustainability has again become a major public policy issue. Since the Great...
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Bank performance, capital and size: a comparative analysis in MENA and EU
The debate on optimal bank capital and size and their association with bank performance is still ongoing and high on policy makers’ agenda. This...
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The Crisis of the Electricity Sector in the EU Countries: Dynamics, Driving Forces, and Prospects
Abstract—Most studies of the current crisis in the EU electricity sector offer a simplified approach to the interpretation of its dynamics and...
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Income inequality, economic openness and current account imbalances in new EU member states
Three decades before the Great Recession (the 2008 financial and economic crisis) were marked by the continuous growth of current account imbalances...
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A review of the driving forces of the informal economy and policy measures for mitigation: an analysis of six EU countries
This study presents detailed estimates of the shadow economy's size and development in all European Union (EU) countries with particular emphasis on...
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How does public policy impact trafficking victimization?: An exact matching study in the EU
Trafficking in human beings (THB) is a widespread, transnational issue in the European Union (EU). Member states act as source, transit, and...
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The Role of EU Securities Regulation in Sustainable Corporate Governance
The debate on sustainable finance seldom includes the perspective of shareholders. However, shareholders are important for the governance of publicly...
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Towards a New Eastern Enlargement of the EU and Beyond
It is not the first time in EU history that the enlargement perspective is confronted with the need for integration deepening.
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Innovative Activity of the Service Sector of the EU Member States
Expenditures on innovative activities, including R&D, play a key role in introducing innovations and consequently in the level of innovativeness. The...
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Pension Funds Regulation in the Context of Investment Climate Development
Many Central European countries, including Croatia, have still not reached the desired regulatory and institutional level of the financial sector...
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e-Justice Governance in the EU
Technology use has been seen as a way to make access to justice easier, faster, and more efficient. In the EU, e-justice actions have been centred...