Es wird untersucht, auf welche Weise die Länder Litauen, Polen und Ungarn ihre Bildungssysteme vor dem Hintergrund der …The main subject is the examination of the different strategies employed by Lithuania, Poland and Hungary during the …

determinants of FDI as market size, wage differences, high developed infrastructure and natural resources remain relevant, FDI …

The literature on state capacity has suggested that state-industry relations are critical in understanding the … input in the production process. The paper reports three case studies that examine state-industry relations in Austria … analysis reveals an underdeveloped role for the state in industrial transformation and an absence of close state …

organisations in the world operating in a deregulated market. While mail services were referred to as the engine room of NZ Post …

past (memory) observations to construct an internal state representation, which is treatedas an abstraction of the … state construction. The project introduces a new method that applies Information Theory and decision tree technique to … derive a tree structure, which represents the state and the policy. The relevance, of a candidate feature, is assessed by the …

The state,writes Douglass North, trades a group of services, which we shall callprotection and justice, for revenue … thereforehave an incentive to hide revenues from the state, while differing in their ability todo so. Thus, the state will typically …

above. Within case comparison is used to construct causal narratives of industry change at the state level. Panel and pooled … policies are broadly significant for the tobacco industry, identified state policies exhibit few consistent effects for hog …

Dynamic models, also termed state space models, comprise an extremely rich model class for time series analysis. This … dissertation focuses on building state space models for a variety of contexts and computationally efficient methods for Bayesian … inference for simultaneous estimation of latent states and unknown fixed parameters. Chapter 1 introduces state space models …