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This paper analyses the determinants of happiness in seven Eastern European transition countries during the early phase of economic transition. The analysis of representative survey data in an ordered logit model shows that those core socio-demographic and economic variables known to be relevant...
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electricity consumption of the Finnish Information sector (ICT-sector) from 2011 until 2017. Additionally, we compare the Finnish … estimates have been presented about the increasing future use of energy and electricity. Occasionally consumer behaviors have … been claimed to be behind of these increases in electricity use.This report makes an effort to understand the energy and …
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The study investigates the influence of financial development on foreign trade in transi- tional economies using panel data (1994-2014). Although empirical studies on the im- pact of financial development on foreign trade are available, none of them that the au- thors are aware of attempted to...
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This paper examines the contemporaneous relationship between the exchange rate regime and structural economic reforms for a sample of CEEC/CIS transition countries. We investigate empirically whether structural reforms are complements or substitutes for monetary commitment in the attempt to...
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combustibles for electricity, reliable methods for modelling electricity consumption can contribute to a more rational employment … Italy, France and Greece on hourly data of aggregate electricity consumption. The empirical results obtained with the PC … a much simpler and attractive alternative to modelling electricity consumption since it is extremely easy to compute, it …
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This paper examines the impact of oil on economic growth in transition economies of the former Soviet Union (FSU) and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). We use oil production and reserves data in a series of panel estimations to show that oil has had strong and robust positive growth effects...
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’ that started in the early 1980s and the spread of information and communication technology (ICT) that began in the late … relationship between FDI, GDP growth, trade openness and ICT is investigated. The main findings are that democratization and ICT … help them to adopt ICT and to break out of their present ‘low ICT equilibrium’ trap. …
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This paper tests the impact of ICT on economic growth for underdeveloped and developing countries by using a panel … dataset for the period of 1995-2006. We first develop the theory between ICT and economic growth. We show that ICT-capital has …. Next, we estimate a panel data set with 131 underdeveloped and developing countries under the assumption that ICT is one of …
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infrastructure, which would allow for adoption, diffusion, and productive use of information and communication technologies (ICT … harnessing the potential of ICT to accelerate the long-term economic growth and catching-up with developed countries. In the NEI …
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We propose exploiting the term structure of relative interest rates to obtain estimates of changes in the timing of a currency crisis as perceived by market participants. Our indicator can be used to evaluate the relative probability of a crisis occurring in one week as compared to a crisis...
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