Zum Bild einer modernen Wirtschaft gehört häufig die Vorstellung, dass durch die Expansion des Dienstleistungssektors die Bedeutung der Industrie und damit auch der Verbrauch mineralischer Rohstoffe zurückgehen würden. Tatsächlich nimmt deren Verbrauch selbst in hochentwickelten...

Die seit Ende 2000 anhaltende weltwirtschaftliche Schwäche hat die bis dahin positive Verbrauchsentwicklung bei vielen Metallen in den Industrieländern beeinträchtigt. Der Weltverbrauch der meisten Metalle nahm allerdings noch zu und erreichte im Jahre 2002 zum Teil eine Rekordhöhe....

Die Märkte der Elektronikmetalle werden maßgeblich von der Nachfrage nach elektronischen Bauelementen aus der Investitions- und Konsumgüterindustrie beeinflusst. Der Weltmarkt für elektronische Bauelemente war in den Jahren 2001 und 2002 als Folge der Abschwächung des weltwirtschaftlichen...

To date, mineral resources are only mined on land but projected increases in demand have brought the exploration and exploitation of marine mineral resources back into focus. The Atlantis II Deep, located in the central Red Sea between Saudi Arabia and Sudan, is one of the largest marine sulfide...

This study aims at integrating a materials flow model into an economic model, such that theeconomic effects of policies on the use materials and products can be analysed. Methods for studyingmaterials and product flows do not properly take into account economic, behavioural or policy aspects.But...

This paper attempts to characterise an anti-inflationary monetary targeting (MT) regime. In order to derive a formal representation of this regime, we formulate the central bank’s optimisation problem under the assumption that it is possible for the monetary targeted variable to have an impact...

This paper – based on a report by a Task Force established by the International Relations Committee (IRC) of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) – reviews macroeconomic and financial stability challenges for acceding (Bulgaria and Romania) and candidate countries (Croatia and...

This paper considers the education of the labour force based on an analysis of trends in and the relationships between job polarization and skills mismatch. Both job polarization and skills mismatch have become topics of increasing interest, but relationships between the two have been relatively...

Why is inflation, 15 years after transition started, still considerably higher in Romania than in the eight EU member states (EU-8) that joined in May 2004? Panel estimation based on ten central and eastern European countries allows us to decompose the inflation differential between Romania and...