In recent years, India has enjoyed one of the highest growth rates worldwide, weathering the global financial crisis better than many other countries. Prudent macroeconomic policies will be critical to prolonging the current expansion, given the risks associated with high inflation and volatile...

Basic ferro-alloys are some of the most important ingredients for producing carbon and special steel (using ferrochrome). The market of basic ferro-alloys is somehow independent of other raw materials markets, depending mostly of steel. There are sometimes speculative operations, but they do not...

Most of the daily steel we so much need is obtained now in electric furnaces, for which the main raw material is scrap. The scrap market is a very sensitive one, depending very much on internal collect, exports and imports, the market of steel and freight. Commerce with scrap is one of the most...

The purpose of this research is to recommend theoretical and program basis for the new economic policy for the purposes of overcoming the recession and enabling the recovery of production in the Croatian economy. Furthermore, the goal is to show that the results of this study provide the...

The special ferro-alloys are the most important ingredients for special alloyed steel. They are much more expensive than basic ferro-alloys and there are fewer producers. The market is volatile most of the time due to the balance offer-demand: some special ferro-alloys are obtained only in a...

Basic ferroalloys are some of the most important ingredients for producing carbon and special steel (using ferrochrome and other special ferroalloys). The market of basic ferroalloys is somehow independent of other raw materials markets, depending mostly of steel. There are sometimes speculative...

This paper provides a review and synthesis of the findings of the second phase of a research project on institutions and long-run economic performance. It discusses research findings in five areas, namely (1) the relationship between institutional characteristics and the duration of economic...

This paper considers institutional and structural factors associated with investment activity in a panel of up to 129 developed and developing countries. We introduce these factors to a standard neoclassical investment function for open economies, and find that financial development and...

We survey the literature on venture capital and institutions and present a case study comparing the development of the venture capital market in the US to Sweden. Our literature survey underscores that the legal environment, financial market development, the tax system, labor market regulations,...

Este trabajo ofrece lineamientos para el diseño de una Política Industrial Moderna en Colombia. Usando el modelo de “monos y árboles” de Haussmann y Klinger, el documento sugiere en cuáles de los productos colombianos se podría dar "el salto". Adicionalmente, este trabajo identifica...