The focus of this article is on the match between strategic motives of foreign investors in Central-Eastern Europe and locational advantages offered by these countries. Our analysis makes use of the IWH-FDI-Micro database, a unique dataset that contains information from 2009 about the...

[fre] Le papier étudie et réévalue la loi de Kaldor-Verdoorn durant les années 90 dans dix pays européens, les États-Unis, le Japon et sept pays d'Europe centrale candidats à l'adhésion. La prémisse de base est que la loi reste valide et solide durant cette période. Bien que la...

Bringing together different perspectives on structural adjustment and the prospect for sustainable economic growth in Eastern Europe, Economics of Transition represents a shift in scholarly emphasis away from issues of stabilization and liberalization in favour of longer-term considerations.

Socialist Economies in Transition provides a coherent critique of economic reform in Eastern Europe which, it is argued, will create not prosperity but high levels of unemployment and severe economic dislocation. The authors show how the application of neo-classical economic theory will, in...

Ragnar Frisch claimed on various occasions that he had invented the principles of input-output analysis. Frisch and Leontief worked simultaneously on their respective contributions but within different contexts. Frisch's contribution was an attempt to cope with market collapse of the depression...

Oil and gas provided the cheap energy source for the era of mass production and consumption and the first half of the information and communication technology (ICT) revolution. However, increasing scarcity and the addition of carbon pollution taxes are making this source of energy more costly,...

The share of knowledge-intensive services and products in total output and demand and in the production of advanced, but also less advanced or emerging economies, has steadily increased over time and especially so for the knowledge-intensive services. This ‘quaternization’ of the economies...

This paper presents a comparative study of the importance of direct technology transfer and spillovers through FDI on a set of 10 transition countries, using a common methodology and appropriate methods to account for selection and simultaneity correction. This paper considers by far the largest...

The key message of this book is that heterogeneity should be seen as an intrinsic and indispensable element of knowledge systems. The authors address the concept of heterogeneity in a multi-disciplinary fashion, including perspectives from evolutionary economics and innovation system studies,...

This paper considers the measurement of the direct and indirect flows of knowledge between different technology-intensive industries in France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and the United States. Using the OECD Input-Output database and the ANBERD database, we show that product-embodied knowledge...