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Some empirical findings on the structural development of the Estonian economy

Laaser, Claus-Friedrich; Reiljan, Janno; Schrader, Klaus - 2015

Estonia is widely regarded as a paramount example for a successful transformation of a socialist economic system to a … Southern Europe the remaining problems of Estonia are often ignored. Estonia has hardly succeeded in catching-up economically … that Estonia faces a serious productivity problem, particularly in the manufacturing sector producing tradable goods which …

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Deficiencies in the development of an Estonian welfare state

Schrader, Klaus; Laaser, Claus-Friedrich; Reiljan, Janno - 2014

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The German economy and EU industrial tariff reductions : partial and CGE analyses of a stillborn Millennium Round

Francois, Joseph F.; Glismann, Hans H.; Spinanger, Dean - 2000

The Millennium Round of MTNs, which was stillborn in Seattle, was supposed to have initiated wide-sweeping changes to the world's trading system. This paper deals with the impact on the German economy of some changes that might have been forthcoming from proposed liberalization strategies. It...

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The Baltic States' integration into the European division of labour

Laaser, Claus-Friedrich (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

The analysis of Baltic trade statistics and gravity estimates reveal that Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have rapidly …

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Real and financial integration in Europe : evidence for the accession states and for the pre-ins

Buch, Claudia M.; Döpke, Jörg - 1999

The process of European integration has gained considerable momentum during the past couple of years. This paper provides an assessment of the degree of integration of both the accession states of central and eastern Europe and of the pre-ins for monetary union with respect to Germany. Using...

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The growth performance of developing countries in the last thirty years : who gained? - Who lost?

Siebert, Horst (contributor) - 2006

This paper answers the question which developing countries have gained and which have lost in the international division of labor during the last thirty years. The indicators used are GDP per capita in constant purchasing power parity and relative distance to the United States. Nearly all...

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Avoiding the trap : the dynamic interaction of North-South capital mobility and technology diffusion

Hübler, Michael (contributor) - 2009

This paper analyzes a stylized model of international capital mobility and diffusion of embodied technologies from North to South. The South can fall behind in terms of technologies or get trapped in a situation, in which it is unable to attract foreign capital and embodied technologies, if its...

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Distance to frontier and the big swings of the unemployment rate : what room is left for monetary policy?

Hoon, Hian Teck; Kong Weng Ho - 2007

This paper builds upon Hoon and Phelps (1992, 1997) to ask how much of the evolution of the unemployment rate over several decades in country can be explained by real factors in an equilibrium model of the natural rate where country's productivity growth depends upon its distance from the...

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Do sources of knowledge transfer matter? : A firm-level analysis in the PRD, China

Liu, Wan-hsin - 2009

This paper investigates whether knowledge transferred from different sources matter differently for carrying out different innovation outcomes, using a firm-level dataset collected in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) in China. It also investigates whether companies in the PRD in China tend to...

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Structural cohesion in Europe : stylized facts

Bickenbach, Frank; Bode, Eckhardt; Krieger-Boden, Christiane - 2010

This paper establishes eight stylized facts on the evolution of the localization of economic activity across industries and regions in the EU-15 since 1980. Localization, which nests concentration and specialization, is measured by a Theil index. The stylized facts reveal a broad aggregate trend...

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