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Iceland's Economic and Financial Crisis: Causes, Consequences and Implications

Spruk, Rok - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Iceland experienced a significant financial meltdown and subsequent economic downturn after the 2008/2009 financial … onwards. Since 1980s, Iceland's macroeconomic stability had been constantly deteriorated by the most volatile annual CPI and … also provides a short-term analysis of Iceland's macroeconomic outlook. The main findings of the article conclude that the …

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Rural Tourism and Ecotourism – the Main Priorities in Sustainable Development Orientations of Rural Local Communities in Romania

Dorobantu, Maria Roxana; Nistoreanu, Puiu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

At this moment, both in our country and in the European Union, rural tourism and ecotourism are among the most dynamic … challenges. Sustainable development of Romanian local communities through ecotourism and rural tourism represents a requirement … tourism and ecotourism, between the need for sustainable development and the need to preserve the local traditions, and to …

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The conditions for functional mechanisms of compensation and reward for environmental services

Swallow, Brent; Leimona, Beria; Yatich, Thomas; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Mechanisms of compensation and reward for environmental services (CRES) are becoming increasingly contemplated as means for managing human–environment interactions. Most of the functional mechanisms in the tropics have been developed within the last 15 years; many developing countries still...

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Forest-based Tourism in Bangladesh: Status, Problems and Prospects

Alam, Mahbubul; Furukawa, Yasushi; Akter, Salma - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

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REPENSER LE FUTUR DE LA POLITIQUE DE COHÉSION EUROPÉENNE POUR LES PAYS D'EUROPE CENTRALE ET ORIENTALE : LA PRISE EN COMPTE DE L'ESPACE GÉOGRAPHIQUE COMME PISTE DE RECHERCHE

Bourdin, Sebastien - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

With the enlargements of the European Union in the East in 2004 and 2007, the regional economic disparities increased profoundly and an effort of solidarity between states was necessary. This paper proposes to identify between the explanatory factors at the origin of the uneven distribution of...

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Repenser le futur de la politique de cohésion européenne pour les pays d’europe centrale et orientale : la prise en compte de l’espace géographique comme piste de recherche

Bourdin, Sebastien - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

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Growth and divergence of the polish subregions over 1995–2006: a search for determinants and spatial patterns

Herbst, Mikolaj; Wójcik, Piotr - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper investigates the presence of sigma and beta convergence between the Polish subregions over 1995–2006. We verify for the absolute convergence, as well as for the convergence conditioned on the stock of physical capital, human capital and the size of the central city, these being...

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Regionale Wachstumseffekte der GRW-Förderung?: Eine räumlich-ökonometrische Analyse auf Basis deutscher Arbeitsmarktregionen

Alecke, Björn; Mitze, Timo; Untiedt, Gerhard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper provides an analysis of the impact of the German “Joint Task for the Improve-ment of Regional Economic Structures” (GRW) on labour productivity growth of 225 German labour market regions for the period 1994 to 2006. The empirical regression approach builds on a “Barro-type”...

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The ‘Trade-off’ between Spatial Equity and Economic Efficiency Revisited: Evidence from the US States

Alexiadis, Stilianos; Eleftheriou, Konstantinos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The principle aims of regional policy can be encapsulated in terms of ‘spatial equity’ and ‘economic efficiency’. Establishing the relation between these two aims is of fundamental importance. Conventionally, however, it is assumed that there is a conflict or a ‘trade-off’ between...

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Regional convergence and the causal impact of migration on regional growth rates

Kirdar, Murat; Saracoglu, Sirin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The standard growth theory predicts that allowing for labor mobility across regions would increase the speed of convergence in per capita income levels and that migration has a negative causal impact on regional growth rates. Although the empirical literature has uncovered some evidence for the...

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