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increase in systematic risk …
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This book offers insight into international trade and foreign direct investment competitiveness in Africa. It examines two policies frequently used to enhance international competitiveness in Sub-Saharan African economies: exchange rate policy and productivity-related policy.
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This collection examines the extent to which foreign capital from conventional (OECD countries) and non-conventional (BRICS) sources has impacted economic development in Africa over the last two decades. It provides in-depth analyses of the nature, motives, and implications of this capital, and...
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Kaum ein Thema im weiten Feld der Politischen Ökonomie ist so populär und zugleich so problembeladen wie das der politischen Konjunkturzyklen. Die theoretische Literatur sieht in der Wahlunsicherheit eine zentrale Einflussgröße. Vorhandene empirische Studien vernachlässigen diesen...
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Gaston Michel investigates whether shocks to real estate markets constitute an important source of the risk that is … priced in the cross section of equity returns. His results document that real estate risk explains a large part of the cross … pricing story: higher asset returns must be associated with lower prices and higher risk exposure. In particular, he …
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Jakob Schwab analyzes central mechanisms in the systematic economic interaction between rich and poor countries. He focuses on the drivers and effects of investment in developing countries and shows that predictions of standard economic analysis may turn around when accounting for peculiarities...
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Economic globalisation and technological change are the two issues that concerned people in the past, concern them today and will concern them in the future - all over the world, poor or rich. Traditionally, questions about allocative effects are asked: What are the labour market implications?...
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Preface -- Introduction -- Output Growth and Productivity Growth in China -- Growth and Convergence across the Chinese Regions -- Openness and Regional Growth in China -- Openness, Human Capital, and Productivity Growth in the Chinese Regions -- Foreign Direct Investment and Regional...
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This study analyzes trade specialization patterns in the enlarged European Union with a special focus on the new EU member states and the cohesion countries. Empirical findings on revealed comparative advantage and a broader picture of competitiveness on the single market are presented from a...
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Talks about the relationship between FDI and economic growth with special attention to Central and Eastern Europe countries. With the help of modern panel data econometrics, this book carries out empirical evidence of growth enhancing effect of FDI in the transition countries, and explains for...
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