Over the years, the East-West Center (EWC) has developed considerable expertise in refinery modeling, especially in the area of forecasting product balances for countries, given planned capacity changes, changes in product demand, changes in crude slates, and changes in product specifications....

During the last decade, the Venezuelan government has pursued a reform of the legal regime of hydrocarbons tailored to its interests as an oil producing country. However, the ongoing consequences of the global economic recession which negatively impacted the Venezuelan economy, call into...

Econometric Modeling has a wide range if applications, including economy-wide representations. This study takes on the task of finding a suitable structure to model the Venezuelan economy. It is revealed that econometric structural and computable general equilibrium models are inapplicable,...

Nationalization is a particular type of organizational structure where the state or nation controlsthe industry as opposed to private companies or multinational organizations. If one imagines acontinuum of organizational structure, nationalization and privatization would be at oppositeends....

Since the mid-1990s, the two regional trade agreements in South America, the southern Mercosur Pact (among Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay), and the northern Andean Pact (among Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru) noticeably affected certain trade patterns between the two...

This books provides basic information about the historical, ideological and legal foundations of the GDR, its political and economic and education system

This book analyses the function of the education system for the recruitment and education of political and economic leaders in the GDR

In diesem Beitrag möchten wir zeigen, wie Fragen der Preispolitik mit Excel modelliert und gelöst werden können. Durch diese Herangehensweise werden die theoretischen Grundlagen der Analyse von Preispolitiken geschärft und Modellierungstechniken vermittelt, die für eigene und weitergehende...

To conclude, if the political risk theoretically means anything, it means thinking about thefuture role of Nation-States, of culture, history and geography and market forces in theshaping of the international economic order. In considering the political risks in theirstrategies, MNCs as the...

Verwendung von Anreizverträgen für Politiker. Klassifizierung von Politikern in Staatsmänner und Populisten.