Intergenerational Spillovers of Integration Policies: Evidence from Finland’S Integration Plans

Integration, productivity and technological spillovers: Evidence for eurozone banking industries

In the context of the debate on increased integration of Eurozone banking markets, this paper evaluates the impact of the Single Market on bank productivity and assesses the cross-border benefits of integration in terms of technological spillovers. We utilise a parametric meta-frontier Divisia index to estimate productivity change and identify technological gaps. We then assess the extent to wh...

R&D Spillovers, Trade Integration And Expansion Of Trade Flows In East- West Asia And Pacific

Navigational Plans for Data Integration

We consider the problem of building data integration systems when the data sources are webs of data, rather than sets of relations. Previous approaches to modeling data sources are inappropriate in this context because they do not capture the relationships between linked data and the need to navigate through paths in the data source in order to obtain the data. We describe a language for modeli...

The Regional Performance Impacts in the Supply Chain integration: Evidence from East Africa Basic Metal Industry

The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between regional firm performance and supply chain integration practices. In addition to literature survey, the primary data collection instrument used was a questionnaire which was administrated to a total sample of 200 industry experts, administrative officers, functional department heads and directors, the industry managing dire...

Economic Integration , Wage Policies and Social Policies

This paper sets up a two country monopolistic competition model with intra-industry trade to study the effects of an exogenous differential in wage and social policies on the location of industry. Two model scenarios are considered. In the traditional one with physical capital, such a differential induces a relocation effect which increases with the level of trade integration. The ‘new economic...