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Las cajas de ahorro y el cambio tecnológico antes de Internet, 1945-1995
Maixe-Altes, J. Carles - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Technical advances in retail banking have had profound repercussions for the competitiveness of individual firms and for the sector as a whole. This paper looks at the role played by new technological resources within the context of organizational change and the products and services offered by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259699
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ICT the Nordic Way and European Savings Banks
Maixe-Altes, J. Carles - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
countries were superior to the rest of Europe and collaboration was intense. This paper highlights the leadership and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111764
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Public housing units vs. housing vouchers: accessibility, local public goods, and welfare
Leung, Charles Ka Yui; Sarpca, Sinan; Yilmaz, Kuzey - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We develop a general equilibrium model of residential choice and study the effects of two housing aid policies, public housing units and housing vouchers. Land is differentiated by both residential accessibility and local public goods, and the provision levels of local public goods are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109274
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Private renting in Romania
Gray, Patrick Francis; Epure, Manuela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper's aim is to present an overview on the PRS in Romania, emphasizing the main characteristics and the nature of PRS evolution after 1989. The past 20 years reveal some key-changes that occurred in the socio-economic and political life of the country and we have explored them as factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805464
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Towards a sustainable development of the chinese economy: Accomplishments and challenges in limiting greenhouse gas emissions
Zhang, ZhongXiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
This is an invited discussion on the Ye, Jin and Liu’s paper “Analysis of Advantages and Disadvantages of Implementation of AIJ for China”. It focuses on five issues or questions: the subject of the paper, China’s concerns about clean development mechanism, what China has done so far in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837102
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Windows of opportunity: lead poisoning prevention, housing affordability, and energy conservation
Nevin, Rick; Jacobs, David; E. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
We used housing demolition and window replacement rates to forecast prevalence trends for childhood lead poisoning and lead paint hazards from 1990 to 2010 for the President’s Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children. The mid-point of that forecast has now been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370809
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Immigration in Italy: An overview
Venditto, Bruno; Caruso, Immacolata - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
among countries. In the last quarter of the century, a steady increase of migrants have crossed Europe; this has generated a … destination of migrants in Europe, following Germany, Spain and France with 7,287,980, 3,371,394 and 3,263,186 immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835515
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Devolution as a means to adequate social safety nets?
Van Mechelen, Natascha; De Maesschalck, Veerle - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Central Europe. However, theoretical literature as wel as empirical research suggests that decentralisation is not by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836017
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The Age of War: From World Market to World Conquest (English language version)
Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
This paper, presented at the Laboratori per la Critica Sociale organised by the Centro Studi Transformazione Economico-Sociali (CESTES-PROTEO), is the English language version of ‘The age of war: From world market to world conquest’, presented at the Forum on the Theoretical analysis of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836260
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When Things Go Wrong: the Political Economy of Market Breakdown
Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
Prepublication version of ‘When things go wrong: the Political Economy of Market Breakdown’ in Westra; R and Alan Zuege (Eds) (2003) Value and the World Economy Today: Production; Finance and Globalization; pp91-118. London:MacMillan; ISBN: 1 40390 002 7 This paper constructs a theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836650