firms during the crisis. We presume that the crisis has ambiguous effects on firms' behaviour, on one hand limiting their … competition and type of main competitors), changes in financial position of a firm, it's pre-crisis performance and innovation … of two surveys of industrial firms conducted in August of 2008 (before the crisis) and in September 2009 (during the …

skilled and unskilled workers, the cost of education, and credit rationing are endogenous. In the model, the existence of … unequal steady states does not depend on the degree of technological skill bias, but on the credit market, the cost of … education, and the growth rate of the economy. However, by building an appropriate measure of inequality, I show that when …

face random and lumpy investment opportunities in R&D. High growth rates of innovations, possibly higher than the real rate … patent and trademark office that minimizes the legal uncertainty surrounding patents as collateral and maximizes the growth …

lessons learnt from economic crisis say there is a need for revising the pre - crisis economic growth model in the selected …Every bigger economic crisis, as the current one, leaves behind a huge material damage to the world economy, and to … economic growth model of selected South Eastern European economies (Albania, Bosnia, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia …

response to a request from the organizers to present suggestions for the policies required to get out of the economic crisis … Trends in Globalization’ website (http://ablog.typepad.com/), the paper analyzes growth in four types of country typified by … the EU, the USA, India, and China. The fastest growth has been registered in China, which has followed a policy of …

dependency on resource exploitation and the sustainability of the chosen growth path With few notable exceptions, social theory … answers to the economic crisis, the social problems of a deeply unequal world, and to resource depletion and rape. Culture has … growth in demand for labour services, which would be, in Mark Swilling’s terminology, ‘resource-decoupled’, decreasing the …

prolonged exceptional growth which can be considered, at least economically, a solution to a crisis. I draw two immediate … the gross inequalities characterizing the present crisis; but, second, to initiate a new process of growth in which the …This paper asks whether, and how, the state can solve the present crisis. The method of enquiry is to analyze what it …