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The Behavior of FDI in South Asian Countries
Majeed, Muhammad Tariq; Syed, Shabib Haider - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
investment is complimentary but insignificant. This weak relationship explains the fact that domestic investment performance is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110391
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Human Capital Development and FDI in Developing Countries
Majeed, Muhammad Tariq; Ahmad, Eatzaz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper evaluates the proposition that development of human capital can be instrumental in attracting FDI in developing countries by using fixed effects models on the panel data of 23 selected developing countries and 35 years (1970-2004). For the purpose, we employ two indicators of human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111951
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Interaction of the European and post-Soviet economic integration in Eastern Europe
Libman, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The aim of the paper is to understand the specifics of the interaction of two models of regional economic integration co-existing in Eastern Europe: the post-Soviet integration and the cooperation with the EU. The paper claims that institutional competition between integration projects may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835802
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Quality Assurance in Higher Education in the Central and East-European Countries after EU Enlargement (2004)
Horga, Ioan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The present analysis has been inspired by the book entitled The Quality Assurance in Higher Education in the Central and East-European Countries – Agenda Ahead, edited by Jan KOHOUTEK, UNESCO-CEPES, Studies on Higher Education, Bucharest, 2009, presenting the outcome of the Research Plan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260515
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The Potential of ICT for the Development and Economic Restructuring of the New EU Member States and Candidate Countries
Piatkowski, Marcin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
ICT could help the New Member States catch up with EU-15 in economic terms. The report documents the potential of ICT for improved productivity performance in the Central and Eastern Europe countries (CEE) at the macro and industry level, in relation to the EU-15 and the US.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008869287
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ICT and Productivity Growth in Transition Economies: Two-Phase Convergence and Structural Reforms
Piatkowski, Marcin; Bart, van Ark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
investment in ICT capital has strongly increased, total factor productivity (TFP) growth has made the largest contribution to … manufacturing, which was facilitated by rapid ICT investment in new plants, and by growth in ICT production in particular through … flexibility, business re-organization and investment in human capital and ICT skills. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008869296
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The Impact of ICT on Growth in Transition Economies
Piatkowski, Marcin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
The paper analyzes the multi-channel contribution of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to output and labour productivity growth in eight transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), i.e. Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia and Slovenia...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008869299
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Macroprudential stress testing of credit risk: A practical approach for policy makers
Buncic, Daniel; Martin, Melecky - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Drawing on the lessons from the global financial crisis and especially from its impact on the banking systems of Eastern Europe, the paper proposes a new practical approach to macroprudential stress testing. The proposed approach incorporates: (i) macroeconomic stress scenarios generated from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009328116
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Causality relations between foreign direct investment and portfolio investment volatility
Gozgor, Giray; Erzurumlu, Yaman O. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
trade-off between foreign direct investment and foreign portfolio investment, our paper examines the causality relations … between foreign direct investment and volatility of foreign portfolio investment. Utilizing monthly and quarterly data set of … foreign direct investment has a significant cause on portfolio investment volatility. However for Czech Republic and Poland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353541
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The contagion effect: evidences from former Soviet Economies in Eastern Europe
Insel, Aysu; Korkmaz, Abdurrahman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper analyzes whether or not the contagion effect exists among the seven former-Soviet economies in Eastern Europe: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine throughout the period from November 1996 to December 2009. The evolution of the EU memberships of Estonia,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642670