This book elaborates a new dependent and localized growth theory based upon knowledge externalities by making two … important contributions. Firstly, it elaborates the hypothesis that total factor productivity growth stems from pecuniary …

. Financial reform in Canada : past, present and future -- 4. Financial system reform in China -- 5. Financial reform in Germany … -- 6. Financial reform in Hong Kong -- 7. Financial reform in Italy -- 8. Financial reform in Japan -- 9. Financial sector …

years 1980-1995 and providing empirical evidence for six European countries, namely Germany, France, Italy, the UK, Belgium …

responses. A variety of regulatory regimes is represented by including within the study companies from Germany, Italy, the … Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. While it is of note that the relatively strong regulation in Germany has indeed had …

, Germany, The Netherlands and Sweden, where strong occupational pensions are in operation, with the more modest welfare states …

redistributed affects the degree and nature of decentralization generating considerable debate in countries as diverse as Italy and …

enable eastern Germany to catch-up with western Germany's productivity and living standards. This book evaluates the main …Following German reunification in 1990, East Germany's centrally planned economy was abolished and replaced by West … Germany's social market economy. Western Germany has since provided vast financial support to aid the transformation, and …