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Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This report is a pre-final version of a report published by the Greater London Authority and the London Development … Agency in March 2008. It benchmarks London’s cultural offer against four other world cities: Paris, New York, Tokyo and … version can be downloaded from http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/culture/docs/cultural-audit.pdf The printed version includes …

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The 'New Institutional Economics' and the Changing Fortunes of Fairs in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: the Textile Trades, Warfare, and Transaction Costs

Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000

This paper revisits, modifies, and combines elements of three major ‘institutional’ international-trade models, none of which has yet fully received the attention that it deserves, to provide a new explanation for the growth, decline, and then rebirth of internationally-oriented fairs in the...

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Does Power of Political Economy and Regulation Make Istanbul a Financial Center? (Ekonomi Politik ve Düzenlemenin Gücü Istanbul’u Finans Merkezi Yapabilir Mi?)

Coskun, Yener - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Turkey is well behind the many countries according to socio-economic development criteria. Activities aim to make Istanbul a financial center seem paradoxical due to less developed and risky characteristics of national economy and financial system. It seems that these activities have both...

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Immigration policy and its impact a comparative study with a focus on Spain

Mahia, Ramon; de Arce, Rafael; Thielemann, Eiko - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Immigration dynamics have varied across time and across countries and immigration flows can have a significant economic, social, political and cultural impact on host countries. The challenge for policy makers and academics is to better understand to what extent public policy decisions can...

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And yet it moves (down)

Maito, Esteban Ezequiel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The article presents an estimate of the rate of profit in United Kingdom between 1855 and 2009. By isolating some of the countervailing forces specified by Marx of the law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, it demonstrates that the law impose despite those countervailing forces,...

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Piketty against Piketty: the tendency of the rate of profit to fall in United Kingdom and Germany since XIX century confirmed by Piketty´s data

Maito, Esteban Ezequiel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

In Capital in 21st century, Thomas Piketty criticizes Marxian theory and the law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall in the long term. His main argument, asserted by other authors since decades, is related to the capacity of increases in productivity to counterweight the tendency. The...

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Does Higher Education System of United Kingdom Produce Enough Graduates?

Shah, Ashfaque Ahmad; Arain, Amjad Ali - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

In this discourse the researcher tried to make the readers view the three-dimensional image of the productivity and contribution of higher education of United Kingdom, quantitatively as well as qualitatively, through the prism of comparison with that of USA and France. The researcher presented...

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Measuring fiscal stance for the United Kingdom, 1920-1990

van der Eng, Pierre - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it presents a very concise way of measuring fiscal stance. This procedure is based on the assumption that the ‘neutral change’ in the government budget can best be simulated with a long-term approximation of the underlying trend of total output....

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Pension Reform in Britain

Whitehouse, Edward - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998

This paper examines the evolution of the pension system in Britain. In particular, it focuses on the shift from pay-as-you-go, state-run defined-benefit pensions to individual, private-sector, funded defined-contribution accounts. It looks at three issues in this reform: the financing of the...

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CHANGES IN THE DEPRECIATION OF BUILDINGS IN AN ENGLISH BUILDING SOCIETY, CIRCA 1959: FINANCIAL AND GOVERNANCE IMPLICATIONS

Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This article explores the manipulation of published financial reports in order to counter perceived unfavourable impact, on an entity, of newly introduced regulations. The article departs from the traditional analysis of asset depreciation in manufacturing or mining and the link between market...

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