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Unemployment and inflation in Western Europe: solution by the boundary element method

Kitov, Ivan; Kitov, Oleg - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Using an analog of the boundary element method in engineering and science, we analyze and model unemployment rate in Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States as a function of inflation and the change in labor force. Originally, the model linking unemployment to...

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How to assist separatists in breaking up a country... or, rather, not: The role of decentralization and development assistance

Ehrke, Jürgen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The international community is usually set against secessionist movements that threaten to break up existing states. At the same time, many fragmented countries receive development aid, which influences the political process there. The model presented here seeks to answer two questions: “Is...

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Can statistics do without artefacts?

Chatelain, Jean-Bernard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This companion paper to Chatelain and Ralf (2012), “Spurious regressions with near-multicollinearity” put their results into the contexts of the history of statistics, of the current publication bias in applied sciences and of the substantive versus statistical significance debate. This...

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Long-run Trends and Recent Developments in Official Assistance from Donor Countries

White, Howard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

Official flows account for close to half of capital flows to developing countries, and close to 90 per cent of receipts for Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper documents trends in these official flows over the last three decades. The most striking trend has been declining aid volume. Following two...

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Foreign Aid in Equatorial Guinea: Macroeconomic Features and Future Challenges

Larrú, José María - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The paper carries out a deep case study of the international aid that Equatorial Guinea receives. This is an extremely interesting country because, not being a failed state, it presents very low indexes in institutional quality. Its oil richness, which began to be exploited by foreign investors...

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Business services and the changing structure of European economic growth

Kox, Henk L.M.; Rubalcaba, Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

A pervasive trend that characterised the past two decades of European economic growth is that the share in the economy of commercial services, and particularly business services, grows monotonically, and this mainly to the expense of the manufacturing sector. The structural shift reflects a...

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Agribusiness in the Americas, Europe and Brazilian states

Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

Following Furtuoso and Guilhoto (2003) the GDP of the Brazilian Agribusiness is estimated to be around 27% of the Brazilian GDP in 2000, and the latest numbers show that it could be reaching 30% of the Brazilian GDP in 2003. Despite its importance for the Brazilian economy as a whole, the size...

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Towards the reproducibility in soil erosion modeling: a new pan-European soil erosion map

Bosco, Claudio; de Rigo, Daniele; Dewitte, Olivier; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Soil erosion by water is a widespread phenomenon throughout Europe and has the potentiality, with his on-site and off … estimating soil erosion by water in Europe, there is still a lack of harmonization of assessment methodologies. Often, different … soil erosion by water in Europe. A significant effort was made for selecting the better simplified equations to be used …

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Unified China; Divided Europe

Ko, Chiu Yu; Koyama, Mark; Sng, Tuan-Hwee - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper studies the causes and consequences of political centralization and fragmentation in China and Europe. We … argue that the severe and unidirectional threat of external invasion fostered political centralization in China while Europe … faster population growth during peacetime than in Europe. But it also meant that China was relatively fragile in the event of …

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Applications of the Choice Experiment Method in Europe: A Review

Birol, Ekin; Koundouri, Phoebe; Kountoyris, Yiannis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

and Central Europe which have recently joined the EU (e.g., Romania and Hungary). …

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