With all the talk in Europe about “Islam” and “Muslim culture” it is surprising how little hard-core empirical evidence exists on the compatibility of “Muslim culture” with positive patterns of political, social, and ecological development in the world system in the 1980s, 1990s, and...

Considering two potential sources of income (public grants and ticket revenues),we have defined a theoretical model where the public agency is the principal and the manager of the museum is the agent. This model allows us to design the optimal contract between both sides and thus to establish...

The article analyses further develops the neo-dependency approach already presented by the same author and looks at recent time series trends in the structure of international capital penetration, international savings, and the dynamics of “unequal transfer” and their effects on social...

Os produtos culturais são certamente diferenciados onde dificilmente se consegue aplicar a lógica económica dos bens privados. Focámos a nossa a análise na procura de cinema em Lisboa, para isso devido a inúmeras dificuldades encontradas com dados estatísticos entrámos num esforço...

Ostdeutsche Unternehmen sind durch eine relative Innovationsschwäche gekennzeichnet, worin auch ein wesentlicher Grund für die Wachstumsschwäche der Region zu sehen ist. Mit der Wende 1989/90 lösten sich bestehende Beziehungsnetzwerke zwischen Wissenschaftseinrichtungen und Unternehmen...

The institutional reforms towards trade liberalizations in Latin America during the 1980s and the 1990s have introduced a good measure of import competition, but trade policies alone are not sufficient to create a competitive environment in an economy. The countries in Latin America have not had...

There are large differences in gross domestic products by sectors among Latin American countries, and the majority of these differences are due to the value of industrial and service sectors. The structural reforms in countries of Latin America has broadly focused in the five major areas...

En este trabajo se estudian los factores que determinan el comportamiento de la fuerza de trabajo de la industria maquiladora de exportacion de los estados fronterizo que colindan con los estados del sur de los Estados Unidos.

THIS WORK EXPOSE THE DETERMINAT'S FACTORS OF THE CIUDAD JUAREZ LABOR'S DEMAND OF THE MAQUILADORA INDUSTRY. ESTE TRABAJO DESARROLLA UN MODELO TEORICO DE COMPORTAMIENTO DE LA DEMANDA DE TRABAJO, APLICADO A LA INDUSTRIA MAQUILADORA SITUADA EN LA CIUDAD FRONTERIZA DE CD. JUAREZ MEXICO.

Foreign exchange rates can be subject to considerable daily fluctuations (up to 5 percent within one day). This can, in certain cases, cause serious losses on open overnight positions. Given a maximum tolerable loss for a company, limits have to be set on open overnight positions in foreign...