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What drives financial crises in emerging markets?

Komulainen, Tuomas; Lukkarila, Johanna - EconWPA - 2003

outflows. Increases in indebtedness followed the liberalisation of capital flows and domestic financial sectors. …

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Heng, Stefan - EconWPA - 2005

Efficient broadband technologies such as DSL, fibre, cable modem, powerline communications, UMTS, WLAN or WiMax are powerful locational factors for an economy. Europe in particular should promote broadband communication further to tap into its growth potential. But given the prevailing ownership...

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Political Economy of Electricity Reform: A Case Study in Gujarat, India

Hansen, Christopher Joshi; Bower, John - EconWPA - 2004

In India, the supply of electricity relies heavily on a virtually bankrupt and sometimes corrupt system of state electricity boards (SEBs), which have failed to bring electricity to approximately 40% of rural households. High subsidy levels to agriculture and domestic customers and widespread...

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Banking Crisis in Japan

Vattipalli, Kashyap - EconWPA - 2004

The Japanese banks played a major role in the economic development of Japan during the post-war period between 1945 and 1973. They financed start-up companies and actively funded their expansion. They were prime financiers since there were restrictions on other options of financing such as...

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Manufacturing Growth and Liberalisation in India (1960-1999): A Demand Side Analysis

Shastri, Rahul - EconWPA - 2005

The trend in manufacturing has not shifted post-91. Liberalisation shares in the high trend phase in manufacturing …, that was ushered in after 1981, which continued even after 1991. Liberalisation however, seems to have changed the … structure of demand responses of manufacturing output. In contrast to pre-liberalisation years, after 1991, manufacturing growth …

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Population Growth in European Cities: weather matters – but only nationally

Paul_Cheshire; Stefano_Magrini - EconWPA - 2004

This paper investigates differences in the rate of growth of population across the large city-regions of the EU12 between 1980 and 2000. The US model which assumes perfect factor mobility does not seem well adapted to European conditions. There is evidence strongly suggesting that equilibrating...

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Next in Line – Romanians at the Gates of the EU (emigrants, border control, legislation)

SIMINA, Ovidiu - EconWPA - 2005

The first of May 2004 marked an important date in the history of Europe as a political, geographic, and social entity. After years of negotiations, ten European countries joined the European Union, bringing in their potential and expectations, adding a total population of 75 million people and a...

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International Mobility of Highly-Qualified People in APEC

Gera, Surendra; Songsakul, Thitima - EconWPA - 2005

An important aspect of the global knowledge-based economy is the emergence of a new trend where certain groups of highly-qualified workers have become increasingly mobile internationally. Reaching the goal of being more innovative economy requires that the highly-qualified workforce is of...

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Politiche Locali per lo Sviluppo: il Ruolo della Legge Italiana 488/1992, la Contrattazione Negoziata e l'Esperienza Europea

Arnone, Marco - EconWPA - 2004

Vengono presentati I principali meccanismi di incentivazione in Italia ed in alcuni paesi europei, in termini sia di descrizione delle iniziative che di analisi del loro impatto in termini di investimenti complessivi e di nuova occupazione. Per I singoli strumenti proposti vengono presentati...

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Trade and Turnover: Theory and Evidence

Davidson, Carl; Matusz, Steven - EconWPA - 2005

Is the pattern of trade correlated with cross-sector differences in job turnover? Theoretically, external shocks feed through to changes in domestic employment and cross-sector differences in turnover give rise to compensating wage differentials, which feed through to output prices. Using two...

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