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Trade Structures, Quality Differentiation and Technical Barriers in CEE-EU Trade

Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2002

In this paper we attempt to quantify the incidence of different types of technical barriers to trade (TBTs) on trade structures between seven Central and Eastern European countries (Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, and Romania) and the European Union at the...

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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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Reducing Productivity and Efficiency Gaps: the Role of Knowledge Assets, Absorptive Capacity and Institutions

Foster-McGregor, Neil; Pöschl, Johannes; Rincon-Aznar, Ana - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2014

Summary This study analyses the impact of knowledge assets on productivity and technical efficiency in the EU, as well as their role in the process of knowledge transfer. The analysis covers the role of the institutional and regulatory environment in affecting productivity and technical...

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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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Restructuring of Energy-intensive Industrial Branches in Romania and Proposals for Industrial Policy Measures

Christie, Edward; Hunya, Gabor; Urban, Waltraut - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2007

Part 1 of the report provides an overview of the position of energy-intensive industries in Romania as compared to other Central and East European economies. The industries identified as particularly ‘energy-intensive’ are the paper industry, the chemical, the non-metallic mineral products...

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MENA in transition: any lessons from CESEE?

Havlik, Peter; Richter, Sandor - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2011

In the wake of the ‘Arab Spring’ several observers compared the changes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to the transition of the former communist countries in Central, East and Southeast Europe (CESEE) to parliamentary democracy and market economy starting two decades ago. Relying...

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Konkurrenzfähigkeit der CEFTA-Landwirtschaft und Auswirkungen auf Österreich (with English Summary)

Lukas, Zdenek; Pöschl, Josef - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2000

English Summary (full report in German language) In general, the competitiveness of an individual enterprise is a …, competitiveness is an enterprise's capacity to remain profitable under given market conditions. The same holds true for agriculture … competitiveness thus tend to focus on cost-related competitiveness. Where the CEFTA countries are concerned, this concentration on …

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Competitiveness of CEE Industries: Evidence From Foreign Trade Specialization and Quality Indicators

Havlik, Peter; Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2001

This paper analyses the competitiveness of the manufacturing industry in the CEE candidate countries (Bulgaria, the … competitiveness. The CEE candidate countries' market share in extra-EU manufacturing imports grew from 9.5% in 1995 to 11.4% in 1999 …

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Recent Impacts of Foreign Direct Investment on Growth and Restructuring in Central European Transition Countries

Hunya, Gabor - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2002

Recent developments have revealed that (i) advanced transition countries have received most of the FDI to date, especially greenfield projects; (ii) more countries than in the mid?1990s are resorting to FDI in order to accelerate privatization (Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia); and (iii)...

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Scenarios for the Financial Redistribution across Member States in the European Union in 2007-2013

Richter, Sandor - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2005

The order and modalities of cross-member state redistribution as well as the net financial position of the member states are one of the most widely discussed aspects of European integration. The paper addresses selected issues in the current debate on the EU budget for the period 2007 to 2013...

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