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Summary Direct intervention in the size of livestock numbers is not considered a main option in European agri‐environmental policies nor in policy studies. Nevertheless, the governments of the Netherlands and Flanders (Belgium) have announced livestock buyout schemes.
Daan Boezeman +3 more
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Routine failure in Macedonia: a critique of the Global Financial Crisis from the periphery
Abstract In most Western analyses, the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) constituted a systemic failure that spread across the entire capitalist system from the United States. That was not, however, the discourse that circulated in (and about) Macedonia – a peripheral country that had been mired in economic disasters since its transition from socialism ...
Fabio Mattioli
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Presidencialismo de coalizão em transe e crise democrática no Brasil
O padrão político-partidário brasileiro já mudou muito e continua em mudança. As eleições de 2018 foram disruptivas. Romperam o eixo partidário-eleitoral que organizou governo e oposição nos últimos 25 anos e por seis eleições gerais.
Sérgio Abranches
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The planet faces a climate crisis with severe health, economic and environmental consequences. Political actions such as the European Green Deal aim to mitigate climate change by shifting production and consumption patterns, and the production of mycorrhizal sporocarps—the fruiting body of fungi—is no exception. The production of mycorrhizal sporocarps
Inês Ferreira +2 more
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Providing long‐term care: Options for a better workforce
Abstract Older people and their care workers have been disproportionately affected by the COVID‐19 pandemic. Many OECD Member countries have taken measures to contain the spread of the infection and improve the care workforce. Yet the health crisis is highlighting and exacerbating pre‐existing structural problems in the long‐term care (LTC) sector.
Ana Llena‐Nozal +2 more
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The Valence Side of the EU: EU Issue Voting in the Aftermath of the Eurozone Crisis
Abstract In the aftermath of the Euro crisis, EU issues have increasingly affected electoral behaviour, explaining a sizable shift in votes from the Europhile to Eurosceptic parties. This paper advances the argument that EU issue voting is not entirely encompassed in a divisive (pro‐/anti‐) EU dimension, testing the hypothesis that a EU valence voting ...
Luca Carrieri, Davide Angelucci
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Can defined contribution pensions survive the pandemic? The Chilean case
Abstract The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic threatens the viability of Chile’s defined contribution (DC) pension system, undermining its financial foundation and exposing its vulnerability to political risk. The COVID‐19 crisis led to the approval of three rounds of emergency withdrawals of 10 per cent of pension savings (as of April 2021).
Stephen J. Kay, Silvia Borzutzky
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Credit frictions, selection into external finance and gains from trade
Abstract This paper analyzes the effects of credit frictions in a trade model where heterogeneous firms select both into exporting and into two types of external finance. While small producers face stronger credit frictions and rely on bank finance, large firms have access to cheaper bond finance. The analysis shows that a bank credit shock leads to an
Florian Unger
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Abstract The post‐crisis reforms of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) have met with skepticism toward their democratic credentials. This certainly applies to the requirement to set up Independent Fiscal Institutions (IFIs). Drawing on Pettit’s model of republican legitimacy, this paper argues however that IFIs can indirectly increase the democratic
Stefano Merlo, Cristina Fasone
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