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investment flows. Transitory paths describe the impact of changing cost competitiveness and profitability positions upon net …
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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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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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benchmarking are the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Bulgaria. The comparison includes production, employment …
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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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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 … whether a farm can hold its own in the face of foreign competition on foreign and domestic markets is the exchange rate which …
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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 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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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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This paper follows the definition of international competitiveness of countries (nations) as defined by Trabold (1995 …, FDI penetration and economic transformation. This paper contributes to the discussion on competitiveness by going through … a number of industry competitiveness indicators attracting FDI, foreign penetration of industries, productivity levels …
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