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The competitiveness effects of the EU climate policy
Peterson, Sonja; Klepper, Gernot - 2008
EU has decided to reduce its GHG emissions by 20% relative to 1990 until the year 2020. These reductions will even rise … competitiveness as a priority area for EU policy and there is some concern about the competitiveness effects of EU climate policy. We … use the multi-sector, multi-region computable general equilibrium model DART to assess the impacts of the recent EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283294
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ICT Modernization and Globalization: Russian Perspectives
Feiguine, Grigori; Solovjova, Julia - Universitätsbibliothek Wuppertal, University Library - 2014
The development of ICT is considered as an important indicator of globalization. The main hypothesis is that the development of ICT and global activities of both countries and regions are positively correlated. As criteria for global activities the exports and FDI-inflows are taken. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011170314
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Significance of Foreign Direct Investment for the Development of Russian ICT sector
Feiguine, Grigori; Solovjova, Julia - Universitätsbibliothek Wuppertal, University Library - 2014
The paper contains an overview of main FDI theories. The focus is on the role of FDI inflows within development of national ICT sector (case of Russia). General trends (volumes, structural distribution) in FDI inflows in Russian ICT sector are identified and summarized. Some recommendations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011170322
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Mobile Telecommunications and Digital Innovations
Syraya, Olga - Universitätsbibliothek Wuppertal, University Library - 2014
This paper describes and analyzes the most recent international trends in the development of mobile communications. The first part deals with the key sectors of the mobile communications market: mobile network, handsets and smartphone operating systems. We focus on the current deployment of Long...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011170326
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ICT Modernization in Central and Eastern Europe
Kubielas, Stanislaw; Olender-Skorek, Magdalena - Universitätsbibliothek Wuppertal, University Library - 2014
, its dynamics, economic development and ICT trade integration within the EU market. This gives support to the hypothesis of … gradual closing up of technology gap in ICT sector between the CEE and the ‘old’ EU countries in the course of the ongoing … achieved in Poland and other CEE countries in particular ICT segments and score rankings as against other EU countries. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011170328
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Prospective membership and institutional change in transition countries
Belke, Ansgar; Bordon, Ingo G.; Melnykovska, Inna; … - 2009
we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and NATO clearly matter for institutional development. In addition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271853
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From transition crises to macroeconomic stability? Lessons from a crises early warning system for Eastern European and CIS countries
Kittelmann, Kristina; Tirpak, Marcel; Schweickert, Rainer; … - 2006
19932004. For the new EU member states in Central and Eastern Europe, the results of our model show that the majority of crises …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272979
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Which membership matters? External vs. internal determinants of institutional change in transition countries
Drautzburg, Thorsten; Melnykovska, Inna; Schweickert, Rainer - 2008
development and even more robust than variables measuring the integration into the EU. This allows for some optimism about the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273095
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Emissions trading, CDM, JI, and more: The climate strategy of the EU
Klepper, Gernot; Peterson, Sonja - 2005
The objective of this paper is to assess the likely allocation effects of the current cli-mate protection strategy as it is laid out in the National Allocation Plans (NAPs) for the European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). The multi-regional, multi-sectoral CGE-model DART is used to simulate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273101
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Integrating biofuels into the DART model
Kretschmer, Bettina; Peterson, Sonja; Ignaciuk, Adriana M. - 2008
effects of a 10% biofuel target in the EU are analyzed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274323