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Before and after the Black Death: money, prices, and wages in fourteenth-century England

Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

depopulation will result in falling grain prices and thus in falling rents on grain-producing lands (on land in general) and in … would also have been a product of the fall in the cost of living, chiefly determined by bread-grain prices, whose decline … England, by almost thirty years of high grain prices – high in both nominal and real terms; and that was a principal reason …

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Brazil’s Place in the Global Economy

Porzecanski, Arturo C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Brazil is a country with long-standing ambitions for a major role in the world economy and in global governance, but its footprint in various measures of both remains relatively modest. On current trends, the gap between ambition and achievement will likely remain large, so we provide a critique...

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EU-African Economic Relations: Continuing Dominance, Traded for Aid?

Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Promising growth rates, increased trade, and competition among major global players for African resources have boosted the development and bargaining power of sub-Saharan Af-rica (SSA) in relation to the EU. However, Africa's least developed countries remain vulner-able to external shocks....

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The Flying Geese Paradigm: A critical study of its application to East Asian regional development

Kasahara, Shigehisa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

It is often claimed that what is popularly known as the "flying geese paradigm" of dynamic comparative advantage has accurately depicted the East Asian catching-up process. This paper presents a critical study of the paradigm, as well as its application to the current situation in East Asia...

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Belgium’s Expansionist History between 1870 and 1930: Imperialism and the Globalisation of Belgian Business

Abbeloos, Jan-Frederik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This chapter considers if and how the political action of imperialism and the globalisation of business influenced each other in Belgium between 1870 and 1930. In addition to the role that Belgian King Leopold II played in the territorial partition of Africa and the opening up of China, the...

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Regional Trade Integration in the CIS Area

IDRISOV, GEORGY; TAGANOV, BORIS - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The article covers main stages of integration processes in the CIS area since its formation. We analyzed the specifics of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) in the CIS. We prepared an exhaustive list of expired and currently effective PTAs in the CIS area, taking into account the initial...

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A New Boost to Transatlantic Ties: The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the EU-Turkey Customs Union

AKDAG, Eray - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The world is going through strikingly fast and comprehensive transformation. The harmonization of the bilateral or multilateral regulations and standards all over the world will make market penetrations much easier, or harder. This is also a critical turn for the overall Turkish economic and...

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Two Integration Projects in Europe: Dead End of Struggle

Vinokurov, Evgeny; Kulik, Sergey; Spartak, Andrey; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The report represents the first part of a project targeting the problems and prospects of two economic integration projects in Greater Europe — the European project (European Union) and the Eurasian project (Russia, the Customs Union and the Eurasian Economic Union). This topic is particularly...

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Holding-Together Regionalism: 20 Years of Post-Soviet Integration

Libman, Alexander; Vinokurov, Evgeny - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Within a single generation, the post-Soviet political, economic, and social landscape has changed immensely. The new structures — ranging from national power structures to a completely new economic reality based on the market instead of centralized planning — have come into existence. As 20...

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Post-Soviet Integration Breakthrough. Why the Customs Union Has More Chances Than Its Predecessors

Vinokurov, Evgeny; Libman, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Within a span of several years, post-Soviet integration has evolved from a largely paper project and rhetoric construct — which certain countries exploited to suit their domestic policies — into an important factor influencing economic development. However, its further prospects are unclear....

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