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Financial Development and Innovation in China: Evidence from the Provincial Data
Hanley, Aoife; LIU, Wan-Hsin; Vaona, Andrea - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
China, using a more recent provincial dataset and more sophisticated panel data estimation techniques than previous studies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008804174
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The Role of Proximity to Universities for Corporate Patenting - Provincial Evidence from China
Liu, Wan-Hsin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
corporate patenting activities in China as found in the previous literature for Western economies. In China, however, these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886921
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Wie privatisieren und wer privatisiert? Zur Erklärung der Wahl der Privatisierungsmethode und -organisation
Siegmund, Uwe - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997
With this theoretical survey the thesis is put forward that the method of privatization as well as the structure of the … privatization agency is choosen by the politicians for politico-economic reasons, and not for reasons of saving transaction costs or … for reasons of ideological preferences. The method of privatization (auction, bargaining, giveaway) is the one that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009276794
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Factors affecting the efficiency of the BRICSs' national innovation systems: A comparative study based on DEA and Panel Data Analysis
Cai, Yuezhou - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
greatly in the efficiency of NIS, with China, India and Russia ranking fairly high, and Brazil, South Africa among the few …-driven pattern to an innovation-driven one. As for China, there is still much to be improved in the fields of ICT infrastructure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370688
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Corporate restructuring and export performance in the transition process: The case of Eastern Germany
Schmidt, Klaus-Dieter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997
Economic restructuring in the transition from plan to market concerns the way enterprises try to achieve competitive advantage. Therefore, enterprises have to decide where to compete, that is to say with which product they should enter which markets, and how to compete, that is by which strategy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009276103
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Labour markets in Poland and Hungary five years from the start of transition: Evidence from monthly data
Brauer, Holger; Falk, Martin; Raiser, Martin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1996
This paper presents error correction estimates of a simple interdependent model of the labour market using monthly data over 1990-1994 for the industrial sector in Poland and Hungary. The aim is to investigate three issues in the performance of labour markets during transition. First, is there a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009276306
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Restructuring and competitiveness in the transition process: Evidence from an Eastern German firm panel
Gerling, Katja; Schmidt, Klaus-Dieter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997
In a transforming economy there is a common legacy of most companies: their low competitiveness as the result of an obsolete capital stock and overmanning, insufficient product quality that does not satisfy demand, distorted specialization patterns, high and partly ill-designed integration,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009276359
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Emerging East-West corporate networks in Central European border regions: Some theoretical arguments and stylized facts
Gerling, Katja; Schmidt, Klaus-Dieter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998
Economic re-integration after a long period of separation among countries with different levels of development is expected to start in border regions. Enterprises along the borderline can gain a rent due to low transport and transaction costs. They benefit from the fortunate opportunity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009276410
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German unification: A progress report
Schmidt, Klaus-Dieter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1996
In the five years after unification, efforts to bring up the eastern part of Germany to the level of the western one have made considerable progress. Eastern Germany's growth is moving towards the double digits, just like growth in the Pacific Rim region. But not all things have developed as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009276550
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Privatization in East Germany: Can the Treuhandanstalt provide a model?
Gupta, Asha - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998
The dynamics of privatization in the Eastern Germany can be better understood in terms of the 'economic polities …. Although the Treuhandanstalt provides a unique example of privatization by the state and the market, it cannot be duplicated or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009276686