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Does aid induce brain drain? : a panel data analysis

Ontiveros, Darwin Ugarte; Veradi, Vincenzo - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-19

Recent evidence suggests that aid induces migration. This result is nevertheless not very informative from a policy … education and study which of skilled or unskilled migration is more sensitive to aid. More specifically we investigate the … possible channels through which aid might affect self-selection among international emigrants and find that aid induces …

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The International Monetary Fond as a creator of the global financial system

Kitanovic, Violeta Spaseska; Kozuharov, Saso - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 3 (2012) 1, pp. 83-90

IMF and World Bank were created after the Second World War as a result of monetary and fiscal Conference of the United Nations (UN) in the Bretton Wood, New Hampshire in July 1944. This conference was part of the efforts to finance the construction of Europe which was destroyed in the Second...

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Eurozone : Konvergenz bei Spitzentechnologien, Divergenz bei wissensintensiven Dienstleistungen

Schiersch, Alexander; Gornig, Martin - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 37, pp. 3-9

Die Wirtschaft der Eurozone ist stark auf forschungsintensive Industrien spezialisiert. In den einzelnen Euroländern ist die Bedeutung dieser Branchen sehr unterschiedlich, besonders groß ist sie in Deutschland. Anders als in der aktuellen Diskussion zum Teil unterstellt, hat die Einführung...

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Innovationsfinanzierung im Mittelstand : Zugang zu Krediten erleichtern!

Belitz, Heike; Lejpras, Anna - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 49, pp. 20-27

Viele kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) können Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) nicht allein aus Eigenmitteln finanzieren. Die Fremdfinanzierung risikoreicher FuE-Projekte mit Krediten ist ihnen aber auch nur begrenzt möglich. Die Förderprogramme des Bundes, der Länder und der EU sind...

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Innovationspolitik für den Mittelstand hat sich bewährt

Belitz, Heike; Eickelpasch, Alexander; Lejpras, Anna - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 49, pp. 3-11

Die Innovationspolitik des Bundes und der Länder bietet dem Mittelstand ein breites Spektrum an Programmen zur Stärkung von Forschung und Entwicklung der kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen und ist besonders auf den Wissenstransfer ausgerichtet. In den letzten Jahren wurden die Programme...

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Verdoorn-Kaldor’s law : an empirical analysis with time series data in the United States

Castiglione, Concetta - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 3, pp. 135-151

Verdoorn's law refers to a statistical relationship between the long-run growth rate of labour productivity and the growth rate of output, usually for the manufacturing sector. Since the sixties this relationship has been examined in a large number of studies using a wide variety of data sets...

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The early diffusion of the steam engine in Britain, 1700 - 1800 : a reappraisal

Nuvolari, Alessandro; Verspagen, Bart; Tunzelmann, Nick von - In: Cliometrica : journal of historical economics and … 5 (2011) 3, pp. 291-321

We examine the diffusion of steam technology across British counties during the eighteenth century. First, we provide new estimates for the regional variations in the timing, pace and extent of usage of steam engines. Our main data source is an updated version of the list of steam engines...

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Responsiveness of trade flows to changes in exchange rate and relative prices : evidence from Nigeria

Oyinlola, M. Abimbola; Adeniyi, Oluwatosin; Omisakin, … - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 3 (2010) 2, pp. 123-141

using exports and imports functions. The bounds testing (ARDL) approach to cointegration is applied on a quarterly data from … demand at both baseline and augmented models. The reverse is, however, the case for exports demand. Furthermore, the sum of …

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¿Cómo compiten las pymes en los mercados internacionales? : análisis de un clúster local con vocación exportadora

Estrella Ramón, Antonia Maria; Jiménez Castillo, David; … - In: Investigaciones europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 18 (2012) 1, pp. 87-99

This research examines whether firms with different levels of export intensity differ with respect to the competitive elements that sustain their competitiveness in foreign markets, as well as on marketing strategies implemented in their commercial activity abroad. To this end, we examine a...

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NAFTA's trade effects : new evidence with a gravity model

Montenegro, Claudio E.; Soloaga, Isidro - In: Estudios de economía 33 (2006) 1, pp. 45-63

This paper estimates econometrically the impact of NAFTA on US-Mexico and US-third countries (groups of countries) trade flows. Using a traditional gravity-equation framework, we try to see to what extent the bilateral trade flows between the US and different countries differ from a gravity-type...

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