Agencies charged with nature conservation and protecting built-assets from fire face a policy dilemma because management that protects assets can have adverse impacts on biodiversity. Although conservation is often a policy goal, protecting built-assets usually takes precedence in fire...

Die vorliegende Arbeit gliedert sich in zwei Teile. Der erste Teil widmet sich der Fragestellung inwiefern formelle Gruppeneigentumsrechte Herkunftsgemeinschaften vor unautorisierten Verwendungen ihrer traditionellen kulturellen Ausdrucksweisen (TKAs) schützen können. Kapitel 2 und 3 führen...

Standard statistical methods in the empirical economics and finance literature are mostly applicable to data that is aggregated on equally spaced time points. However, a key characteristic of many economic and financial variables is that they occur randomly and are observed irregularly in time....

This paper uses an administrative dataset to analyze to what extent active labor market policies in the Slovak Republic have been beneficial for unemployed workers. The focus is on two types of temporary subsidized jobs and on training. Short-term subsidized jobs seem to be the most efficient...

This paper studies housing tenure and labour mobility using individual data from the ECHP for five European countries. First, the effect of housing tenure on the unemployed workers' labour mobility is studied using a discrete unemployment duration model with two alternative exits to employment,...

In the ¯rst of the essays, I reassess the relationship between premarital cohab-itation and marital instability both theoretically and empirically. It has become astylized fact that premarital cohabitation is positively correlated with the likelihood ofmarital dissolution. This is...

According to the data of practical GDP time sequences from 1978 to 2009 provided by Henan Statistical Yearbook of every year, Hodrick-Prescott filter model is established, and it is disintegrated into tendency component (potential yield) and fluctuation component (yield gap). The critical...

Bankinis sektorius yra vienas iš svarbiausių ekonomikos sektorių, užtikrinančių, kad ekonomikoje nepaliaujamai vyktų pinigų manai ir cirkuliacija. Todėl tyrimai, susiję su bankų kreditavimo pokyčiais yra itin aktualūs. Didėjanti besivystančių rinkų svarba globalioje ekonomikoje,...

Darbe analizuojamos ekonomikos ciklinių svyravimų priežastys. Ekonominiai ciklai susiejami su politiniais ekonominiais ciklais. Aptariama pasaulinė finansų krizė ir kaip ji įtakojo Baltijos regiono postkomunistinių valstybių vystymąsi ir ekonomiką. Analizė apima 2007- 2009 metų...