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Competitive Economic Performance: The European View

Aiginger, Karl; Landesmann, Michael - 2002

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Innovation Barriers across Firms and Countries

Hölzl, Werner; Janger, Jürgen - 2012

This paper studies differences in the perception of innovation barriers between innovative and non-innovative firms for 18 EU countries. The countries are grouped by their distance to the technological frontier using Community Innovation Surveys for the years 2002-2004 and 2004-2006. The results...

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A Primer on Financial System Meltdown. The Economists' View

Hahn, Franz R. - 2008

Ideologues are quick to explain the current financial meltdown: it's the markets, stupid. Economists agree but add: it's politics too, stupid. Ideologues agree but counter: first and foremost it's capitalism, stupid. Economists agree but reply: §$%&?!, stupid. This is where this short paper...

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Macroeconomics, Financial Crisis and the Environment. Strategies for a Sustainability Transition

Antal, Miklós; van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. - 2014

We raise fundamental questions about macroeconomics relevant to escaping the financial and economic crisis and shifting to a sustainable economy. First, the feasibility of decoupling environmental pressure from aggregate income is considered. Decoupling as a single environmental strategy is...

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Reform Perspectives on Welfare State Models in Global Capitalism

Aiginger, Karl; Guger, Alois; Leoni, Thomas; … - 2007

been very small in the decades after World War II (1960-1990), growth rates as well as the employment and social policy …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435229

Budget Consolidation in a Difficult Environment - Ten Guidelines Plus a Preliminary Reality Check

Aiginger, Karl; Schratzenstaller, Margit - 2010

There is evidence that a budget consolidation strategy can work with only a small and short lived negative impact on growth. However, this time consolidation is taking place in the aftermath of a deep crisis which had lead to increased levels of uncertainty. In addition the financial sector, as...

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R&D and Productivity: Empirical Evidence at the Firm Level

Wieser, Robert - 2001

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Tracing Empirical Trails of Schumpeterian Development

Peneder, Michael - 2004

Schumpeterian development is characterised by the simultaneous interplay of growth and qualitative transformations of the economic system. At the sectoral level, such qualitative transformations become manifest as variations in the sectoral composition of production. Following the implementation...

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The Impact of Growth Performance and Political Regime Type on Economic Policy Liberalization

Pitlik, Hans - 2007

The paper investigates empirically the interaction between economic growth performance and political institutions in producing free-market reform. In particular, we explore whether political regime types systematically shape government policy responses to good or bad growth performance,...

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Vom Bancor zum Euro: Und weiter zum Intor?

Handler, Heinz - 2008

future of the world monetary system. The gold standard, the Keynes Plan and the White Plan are identified as the most … favourable experience made so far with the euro may be utilised for monetary integration in other parts of the world. The … furthers the idea of developing a single world currency. …

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