This paper provides a brief analysis of three major questions raised in the context of the recent global financial crisis. First, how similar is the crisis to previous episodes? We argue that the crisis featured some close similarities to earlier ones, including the presence of credit and asset...

The purpose of the study is two-fold. First, it examines whether Internet usage converges across the geographical space comprising the European Union and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Second, it aims to expand the currently rather limited empirical evidence on the determinants of Internet...

It is clear that the future of the transport sector is fraught withuncertainties, as the system can be influenced by many factors thatcan develop in various ways. The aim of this paper is to gain insightinto the future development of the transportation sector. It presentsthe development of the...

The location behaviour of modern multinational multi-plant firms appears to exhibitincreasingly a flexible mobility pattern with a strong tendency towards footlooseness. Thespatial-economic dynamics - often across the border - of such firms is sometimesencapsulated in the term 'nomadic firms'....

[Weltkonjunktur bleibt vorerst schwach] Die Weltkonjunktur hat im Jahr 2012 weiter an Fahrt verloren. Zur Jahreswende 2012/13 scheint der Tiefpunkt der globalen konjunkturellen Dynamik zwar durchschritten zu sein. Doch belasten Unsicherheiten den Ausblick, die insbesondere im Zusammenhang mit...

We estimate the relationship between students? educational achievement and the availability and use of computers at home and at school in the international student-level PISA database. Bivariate analyses show a positive correlation between student achievement and the availability of computers...