Überblick: Erkenntnisziel der Arbeit lag zunächst in einer systematischen Beschreibung der New Public Management Reformen im deutschen öffentlichen Forschungssektor. Ein be-sonderer Fokus lag dabei auf der leistungsorientierten Mittelzuweisung an die einzel-nen Forschungseinheiten,...

Darbo rinkos problemos, kurias sprendžia Kauno TDB, yra viena iš svarbiausių socialinių sričių, tačiau vis dar nepakankamai žinoma, apie šios srities paslaugas. Taigi kyla klausimas, ar Kauno TDB teikia kokybiškas paslaugas? Ar yra galimybė pasiekti didesnį paslaugų efektyvumą?...

The banking and currency crises of the last two decades inflictedsubstantial financial, economic, and social damage on thecountries in which they originated. In this work, the efficiencyof early warning indicators for these disastrous economic eventsis evaluated. An analysis of the traditional...

It’s fast approaching the end of the year and the festive season, and I have a few things on my mind. First, how I’ll fit in all of my holiday plans and projects within my period of leave, which always seems to pass oh so quickly! But more important are the two issues of global financial...

Before the Global Financial Crisis many providers of finance had growth mandates and actively pursued development finance deals as a way of gaining higher returns on funds with regular capital turnover and re-investment possible. This was able to be achieved through high gearing and low presales...

The paper examines the decision by Australian Real Estate Trusts (A-REITs) to issue seasoned equity offerings from 2000 - 2008 and stock market reaction to the offerings. The findings reveal that highly leveraged A-REITs with variable earnings are less likely to issue seasoned equity offerings....

Extract: The global financial crisis of 2007-09 will go down in the history indubitably as the foremost economic and financial cataclysm of the twenty-first century, a seismic economic and financial event. It also acquired the dubious distinction of being the gravest crisis since the Great...

This paper investigates the medium- and long-term growth effects of the global financial crises on Low-Income Countries (LICs). Using several methodological approaches, including impulse response function analysis, growth spells techniques and panel regressions, we show that external demand (ED)...