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Economic Convergence and Structural Change: the Role of Transition and EU Accession

Dobrinsky, Rumen; Havlik, Peter - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2014

Summary This paper analyses the speed and patterns of economic convergence in the new EU Member States of Central and Eastern Europe during transition and the first years of EU membership. After a brief discussion of measurement and data issues, the paper provides stylised facts on growth and...

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Tourism and Economic Development: the Beach Disease?

Holzner, Mario - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2010

This paper analyses empirically the danger of a Dutch Disease Effect in tourism-dependent countries in the long run. Data on 134 countries of the world over the period 1970-2007 is used. In a first step the long-run relationship between tourism and economic growth is analysed in a cross-country...

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Skill Intensity in Foreign Trade and Economic Growth

Wörz, Julia - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 1970

This paper explores the link between trade structure, trade specialization and per capita income growth. It is argued that industrial upgrading in export specialization patterns has a positive long-run growth effect, while the effect of structural change in industrial import patterns is in...

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Manufacturing Productivity: Effects of Service Sector Innovations and Institutions

Foster-McGregor, Neil; Pöschl, Johannes; Stehrer, Robert - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2012

. This paper analyses international rent spillovers at the industry level and for the first time investigates effects from … traditional approach of using trade in intermediates in the estimation of international spillovers by making use of input … international manufacturing spillovers found in recent literature. As regards services, which provide a substantial component of the …

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On Thin Ice: CESEE Core Resilient in the Face of EU Stagnation and the Ukraine Crisis

Astrov, Vasily; Çiçek, Serkan; Dobrinsky, Rumen; … - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2014

Summary Despite near stagnation in the euro area and the negative impact of the Ukraine crisis, in most of the NMS economies and some of the Western Balkan countries growth prospects are viewed as positive. While the NMS economies will preserve their positive growth differential vis-à-vis the...

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Differentiated Impact of the Global Crisis

Astrov, Vasily; Gligorov, Vladimir; Havlik, Peter; … - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2009

The report analyses recent economic developments and short- and medium-term development prospects, covering the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Southeast Europe including Turkey, together with Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and China. Separate chapters present an overview of...

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The Big Boom Is Over, but Growth Remains Strong and Inflation Calms Down

Astrov, Vasily; Gligorov, Vladimir; Havlik, Peter; … - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2008

After a period of exceptionally high growth in the whole region of Central, East and Southeast Europe in the past two years, there has been some slowdown in GDP growth. Nevertheless growth remains largely robust. In particular the new member states of the EU (NMS) appear to be largely decoupled...

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Regional Employment Patterns and Prospective Developments in the New EU Member States

Römisch, Roman; Ward, Terry - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2005

Summary · Grouping the regions of the EU-15 and the new member states (NMS, including Bulgaria and Romania) into five clusters according to the relative importance of broad sectors of activity reveals marked differences in the regional economic structure and development. · In capital cities...

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Broader-based Growth Resilient to Global Uncertainties

Astrov, Vasily; Bosnic, Zlatko; Gligorov, Vladimir; … - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2006

Under favourable external conditions, the economies of the New EU Member States (NMS) fared even better in the first quarter of 2006 than in 2005. Investment accelerated sharply and industry is proving buoyant. Labour productivity has registered strong gains, unit labour costs declined. This is...

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CEEC's Competitiveness in the Global Context

Landesmann, Michael; Wörz, Julia - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2006

In an international comparison, CEECs show a relatively strong economic growth performance coming close to that of the first and second tier of Asian Tiger countries over the past decade, which emerge as the best growth performers (setting aside China). In recent years the CEECs' dynamic growth...

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