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Scientific paper • 2013

The failures of European crisis management and its micro and meso level reasons

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Abstract: The current European crisis started as the infiltration of the global financial crisis. The real economy was hit badly by the sudden contraction of the financial sector. The European Commission’s recovery plan of 2008, followed by most member states at that time, built on the quick restoration of...

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An alternative proposal for regional European innovation policy: Cooperation of SMEs with knowledge-intensive services in innovation networks

By: Daniel Feser

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Abstract: Innovation policy in the European Union (EU) comes to a result; its policy goal to become the most innovative region in the world until 2010 failed, primarily concerning the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Thus, the purpose of this paper is to introduce my proposal in terms of an...

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A simple model of a currency union with endogenous money and saving-investment imbalances

By: Dirk Ehnts

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Abstract: The economic crisis in the euro zone proves that neither the creators of the euro nor today's policy-makers fully understand the functioning of a currency union. Explanations of the macroeconomic relations inside a currency union are therefore in demand. It is now clear that macroeconomic...

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Determinats of real long-term interest rates in Europe: “Is it a fiscal phenomenon?”

By: Fatih Kaya

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Abstract: Several studies investigate the relationship between government debt/deficit ratios and the real long-term interest rates, but the empirical evidence is not conclusive enough for consensus building. Evidence for statistically weak or mixed association is as much as the evidence for a strong...

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Arbeit, Sozialstaat, Wirtschaftswachstzm – Wie interagieren verschiedene Verständnisse von Arbeit mit dem Sozialstaat und Wirtschaftswachstum

By: Felix Kersting, Andrea Pürckhauer, Renke Schmacker

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Zusammenfassung: Dieser Aufsatz widmet sich zunächst der Frage, wie aus der Interaktion von Arbeitsmarkt, Sozialstaat und Wirtschaftswachstum vor dem Hintergrund der demografischen Entwicklung, hoher Staatsverschuldung und der Zunahme atypischer Beschäftigung Wachstumszwänge hervorgehen. Anschließend wird...

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Zeit für die Wohlstandsdebatte!

By: Felix Wittmann

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Erschienen in Zeitwohlstand – wie wir anders arbeiten, nachhaltig wirtschaften und besser leben, Hrsg. Konzeptwerk Neue Oekonomie, München: oekom, 2014. Aus dem Text: Halten wir uns vor Augen, worum es bei der Suche nach gemeinsamen Wohlstandskriterien überhaupt geht, wird deutlich, wie problematisch...

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Coordination, Collective Bargaining and Macroeconomic Performance: Re-Analyzing a “hump-shaped“ Relation

By: Frederik Knirsch

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Abstract: The EU crisis is not overcome yet and the entire system suffers from the persistent macroeconomic imbalances and inequalities. According to the EU growth and convergence strategy “Europe 2020” the EC recommends a set of political reforms concerning national labour markets including adjustments...

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Are the Central East European Countries Pollution Havens?

By: Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso, Martina Vidovic, Anca M. Voicu

Pollution Haven Hypothesis, Porter hypothesis, European Union, Trade Flows

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The Labor Market Impact of Minimum Wages in Germany 1995-2010 – Evidence from the German Main Construction Sector

By: Jessica Oettel

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Preliminary paper version submitted to the conference "New economic concepts in the current European crisis", November 8-9, 2013 – Available upon request, please email to jessica.oettel@wiwi.hu-berlin.de –

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Europe's new austerity paradigm - how and why did we get here? A critical analysis of the discursive construction of the Eurozone crisis

By: Johannes Petry

Eurozone crisis; austerity; PIIGS; discursive construction; North-‐South divide; European welfare state; crisis narrative

Scientific paper • 2013

From fragmentation towards universalism: Filling the institutional vacuum of dealing with sovereign debt

By: Katarina Sehm Patomäki

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Abstract: From the paper: The euro, a result of the political project to consolidate peace in Europe, has now created new divisions between the peoples it was meant to unite. Countries with surpluses in their trade balances rule over the economic policies of those with deficits: and the decision-making...

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The determinantes of immigrant's and native's attitudes towards immigration: Evidence from England and Wales

By: Muhammad Waqas

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Abstract: Using the UK Citizenship Survey for the years 2007 - 2010, this paper investigates immigrant's attitudes towards immigration and compares these to natives' attitudes. Immigrants who arrived in the UK earlier are closer in their reactions to natives than to recent immigrants. Labour market...

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The distributional impact of the Irish public service obligation levy on electricity consumption

By: Niall Farrell

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Abstract: We analyse the distributional impact of financing renewable energy policies via levies on domestic consumption, focussing on Ireland’s flat-rate public service obligation (PSO) levy. We find that switching Ireland’s flate-rate charge to a unit-based regime results in a trend of reduced...

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The Impact of Employment Protection Legislation on the Unemployment Rate in Selected OECD Countries

By: Raif Can

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Abstract:The findings of the existing literature on the relationship between employment protection legislation and the unemployment rate are mixed. This study analyzes the relationship between employment protection legislation measured by the OECD Employment Protection Index and the unemployment rate...

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Was bedeuten Übergangsarbeitsmärkte, Flexicurity und Sozialinvestition für Verwirklichungschancen?

By: René-Lehweß-Litzmann

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Einleitung: Verwirklichungschancen, zu Englisch „capability“, ist der zentrale Begriff eines auf Amartya Sen zurückgehenden Ansatzes der Wohlfahrtsmessung 1 . Er steht für die Handlungen und Seinszustände („Funktionen“), die für eine Person erreichbar sind, und die sie mit guten Gründen wertschätzen...

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Arbeit ohne Zwang – Wie wirkt sich ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen auf die Arbeitsmarktsituation aus?

By: Sebastian Levi

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Abstract: Das bedingungslose Grundeinkommen (bGE) ist ein in jüngerer Vergangenheit immer häufiger diskutierter Reformvorschlag, der unter anderem auf Grund seines vermuteten negativen Einflusses auf die Arbeitsmoral oftmals kritisch bewertet wird. Unter Bezug auf die mikroökonomische...

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Die Makroökonomische Dimension von Geldlöhnen: Gefahren und Potenziale auf dem Weg zu einem nachhaltigen Wirtschaftsmodell in Europa

By: Silke Mahnkopf-Praprotnik

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Abstract: Mit der Finanz- und Weltwirtschaftskrise ab 2007 wurden auch viele europäische Länder, vor allem Länder der europäischen Währungsunion, mit in den Abwärtsstrudel gerissen. Die Schwächen eines bis dahin forcierten Wirtschafts- und Wachstumsmodells wurden offensichtlich und gaben Anlass, das...

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Gender pay gap in the Western Balkan countries: Evidence from Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia

By: Marko Vladisavljeviü, Nevena Ivanovic, Sonja Avlijas, Suncicia Vujic

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Abstract: Using the Labour Force Survey data in the period 2008-2011 and the Blinder-Oaxaca wage decomposition, this paper examines the scope and the characteristics of wage disparities between women and men in Serbia, Montenegro, and Macedonia. Estimation results show that in Serbia and Macedonia...

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Der Einfluss von Arbeitsmarktinstitutionen auf den deutschen Niedriglohnsektor Untersuchung am Beispiel der Arbeitsförderung

By: Valeska Gerstung

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Teil der Einleitung: Spätestens seit den Hartz-Reformen ist das Thema der Niedriglohnbeschäftigung in den Fokus der politischen und gesellschaftlichen Debatte in Deutschland gerückt. Laut einer aktuellen Studie des IAB ist der deutsche Niedriglohnsektor im europäischen Vergleich mit 24,1% im Jahr 2010 auf...

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Lessons from member state level crisis management

By: Marcell Zoltán Végh

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Abstract: The global financial crisis of 2008 hit the economy of the European Union extremely hard. The year 2009 brought recession in the majority of the member states, which induced a desperate crisis management procedure. Common, EU-level crisis management measures took place as well but these have...