Essays about: "EFTA"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 essays containing the word EFTA.

  1. 1. Anti-competitive: Things that Gain from Dispersion - An Application of Synthetic Controls in Ex-Post Merger Analysis

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Isak Thelander; Eliel Koivisto Stenström; [2021]
    Keywords : Ex-Post Merger Analysis; Antitrust; Synthetic Control; Sweden;

    Abstract : This thesis tests how 16 approved mergers which were subjected to an ex-ante investigation by the Swedish Competition Authority (SCA) between 2000-2015 affected consumer prices through a synthetic control methodology. Ex-post assessments of approved mergers' effect on prices are rare due to a lack of adequate controls for non-merger related price fluctuations. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Welfare State and Attitudes to Free Movement : How does the design of the social insurance system associate with public attitudes towards free movement in receiving EU countries?

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Johan Olofsson; [2020]
    Keywords : Free movement; the welfare state; earnings-relatedness; labor market competition hypothesis; welfare state chauvinism; deservingness; reciprocity;

    Abstract : The EU is faced with problems related to the unrestricted access to national welfare states of mobile EU workers. These problems are mainly framed by the growing opposition to the free movement of workers. The strongest contributing factor to these negative attitudes has commonly said to be actor-based, i.e. READ MORE

  4. 3. Fields of Dreams: Scenarios to Produce Selected Biomass and Renewable Jet Fuels that Fulfill European Union Sustainability Criteria

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Torry van Slyke; [2019]
    Keywords : aviation biofuel; Camelina sativa; forestry residues; land use change; Renewable Energy Directive; sustainable development;

    Abstract : Aviation greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have risen faster than any other transport sector to double between 1990 and 2005. Such emissions from aviation could increase another 700 percent globally, and at least 150 percent in the European Union (EU), by 2050 due to continuously increasing consumer demand. READ MORE

  5. 4. BREXIT: The Swedish Perspective : A Gravity Model Approach

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)

    Author : David Driver; [2019]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : The subject of trade negotiations has been a highly publicised debate in the context of Brexit. The term ‘no deal’ has come to represent the United Kingdom leaving with no specific or comprehensive preferential trade agreement, whereas the potentially most far-reaching deal would resemble something along the lines of an EFTA membership. READ MORE

  6. 5. Merger Control Post-Brexit - An Analysis of the Future EU-UK Relationship and the Potential Effects on UK Merger Control

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Amanda Persson; [2018]
    Keywords : Brexit; UK; United Kingdom; England; Great Britain; EU; European Union; Storbritannien; Europeiska Unionen; M A; Mergers and Acquisitions; Merger Control; Merger Law; Företagskoncentration; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : After the Brexit referendum on the 23rd of June 2016 it is evident that the UK might be leaving the EU. In light of EU law, and the leave-campaign, the question of what will happen to UK merger control post-Brexit is especially riveting due to the internationality of merger control and the high impact of EU-control on competition law. READ MORE