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The global financial crisis: how similar? How different? How costly?
Claessens, Stijn; Kose, M. Ayhan; Terrones, Marco E. - 2010
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...
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Explaining the migration of stocks from exchanges in emerging economies to international centres
Claessens, Stijn; Kingebiel, Daniela; Schmukler, Sergio L. - 2002
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...
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A Multi-layer Scenario Analysis for Sustainable International Transport
Ubbels, Barry; Rodenburg, Caroline; Nijkamp, Peter - 2000
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...
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Assessing the allocation of aid: Developmental concerns and the self-interest of donors
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, … - 2005
measured by the World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA). If the CPIA is replaced by the Kaufmann index …
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Nomadic Firms in a Globalizing Economy: A Comparative Analysis and Policy Perspectives
Bruinsma, Frank; Gorter, Cees; Nijkamp, Peter - 1998
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'....
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Central banks: No reason to ignore money
Scheide, Joachim - 1998
The need for a stable monetary policy arises from several facts about business cycles. For example, practically all recessions in industrial countries were preceded by restrictive measures of central, banks. The main cause for the instability, however, was the expansionary policy that led to a...
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Tropenwaldmanagement: Ein Balanceakt zwischen Schutz und Raubbau
Thiele, Rainer; Wiebelt, Manfred - 1996
Gegenwärtig ist eine exzessive Inanspruchnahme der Tropenwälder durch die Land- und Forstwirtschaft zu beobachten, die auf eine Kombination aus Marktversagen und Politikversagen zurückzuführen ist. Dadurch werden wichtige ökologische Funktionen der Tropenwälder gefährdet. So beherbergen...
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Strategien zur Bekämpfung der weltweiten Armut: Irrwege, Umwege und Auswege
Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - 2004
einige Staaten, insbesondere in Asien, den Einkommensrückstand zu den Industrieländern im Zuge der Globalisierung vermindert …
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Weltkonjunktur und deutsche Konjunktur im Frühjahr 2006
Gern, Klaus-Jürgen; Oskamp, Frank; Sander, Birgit; … - 2006
[Expansion der Weltwirtschaft verliert allmählich an Fahrt] Die Weltkonjunktur zeigt sich zu Beginn des Jahres 2006 … vorerst nur wenig verringern. So dürfte die Weltwirtschaft im laufenden Jahr nochmals kräftig zulegen. Für 2007 ist eine … Weltwirtschaft. Das reale BIP nimmt 2007 nur noch um 1,2 Prozent zu (vorher: 1,0 Prozent). Damit wird sich die Lage auf dem …
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Weltkonjunktur und deutsche Konjunktur im Sommer 2006
Dovern, Jonas; Gern, Klaus-Jürgen; Oskamp, Frank; … - 2006
wird die Konjunktur allerdings, bedingt durch die höheren Zinsen und die langsamere Expansion der Weltwirtschaft sowie vor …
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