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Factors Behind International Relocation and Changes in Production Geography in the European Automobile Components Industry
Lampón, Jesús; Lago-Peñas, Santiago - 2013
This article analyses business strategies in the automobile sector to determine the key factors behind production relocation processes in automobile components suppliers. These factors help explain changes in production geography in the sector not only in terms of location advantages but also...
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Eurasian Integration and Its Institutions : Possible Contributions to Security in Eurasia
Vinokurov, Evgeny; Libman, Alexander - 2017
The authors turn to the large family of institutions that came into existence in post-Soviet Eurasia (and, in some ways, beyond it) over the last two decades. The researchers review their current state, agenda, real and perceived mandate, and their respective achievements and constraints. The...
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Can statistics do without artefacts?
Chatelain, Jean-Bernard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This companion paper to Chatelain and Ralf (2012), “Spurious regressions with near-multicollinearity” put their results into the contexts of the history of statistics, of the current publication bias in applied sciences and of the substantive versus statistical significance debate. This...
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Long-run Trends and Recent Developments in Official Assistance from Donor Countries
White, Howard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
Official flows account for close to half of capital flows to developing countries, and close to 90 per cent of receipts for Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper documents trends in these official flows over the last three decades. The most striking trend has been declining aid volume. Following two...
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Foreign Aid in Equatorial Guinea: Macroeconomic Features and Future Challenges
Larrú, José María - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper carries out a deep case study of the international aid that Equatorial Guinea receives. This is an extremely interesting country because, not being a failed state, it presents very low indexes in institutional quality. Its oil richness, which began to be exploited by foreign investors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642665
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How to assist separatists in breaking up a country... or, rather, not: The role of decentralization and development assistance
Ehrke, Jürgen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The international community is usually set against secessionist movements that threaten to break up existing states. At the same time, many fragmented countries receive development aid, which influences the political process there. The model presented here seeks to answer two questions: “Is...
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The economic and political dilemma of Europe
Mavrozacharakis, Emmanouil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Abstract Englisch Apparently the European economic model being subjected to a double competition problem. On the one hand, there are enormous differences in the level of competitiveness of the various member countries of the euro area and the EU among themselves. In the long term this Problem...
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Demokratie , öffentliche Güter und Europa
Mavrozacharakis, Emmanouil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
-right, the Social Democrats, the Greens or left-wing populism becomes a drive, even if the conservatives in Europe continue their …, there is a need for Europe, to get out from the logic of closed circles , in which politicians negotiate with each other in … Forces of Europe, led by the Social Democrats should confront herself with the idea to define a new potential of public Goods …
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Social capital in Europe from 1990 to 2012: trends, path-dependency and convergence
Sarracino, Francesco; Mikucka, Malgorzata - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
the world, such as Europe. This study uses WVS-EVS integrated data (1990-2012) to describe the trends of 10 proxies of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011253064
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European Culture between Diversity and Unity
Brie, Mircea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The image of the European culture is given by the association of the concepts people-culture-history-territory, which provides certain local features. From this relation, we identify a cultural area with local, regional and national features beyond a certain European culture. Thus, we identify...
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