European integration is expected to enhance the attractiveness of EL) countries for domestic and foreign investors. This has caused concerns in developing countries that foreign direct investment there may be diverted to Europe. In preparing for the Single Market, European companies have indeed...

The Asian financial crisis (1997) and the European crisis (2009) have both contributed to the development and deepening of regional safety net arrangements. This paper analyses the relationships between global and regional financial safety nets, and uncovers the potential tensions and...

Waves of military technological changes have swept through the Eurasian land mass since the dawn of civilization. Military technological changes decisively shaped geopolitics and the fortunes of states, empires and civilizations. In his book Jimmy Teng claims that to understand the impacts of...

We develop a dynamic model of strategic investment in a transnational pipeline system. In the absence of international contract enforcement, countries may distort investment in order to increase their bargaining power, resulting in overinvestment in expensive and underinvestment in cheap...

This paper provides a quantitative analysis of power relations and strategic investment in the transport system for Russian gas. First, we analyse how the architecture of the transport system determines Russia's bargaining power vis-à-vis (potential) transit countries. By applying the Shapley...

The paper discusses the relevance of past concerns about trade and foreign direct investment diversion to the detriment of Asian suppliers and hosts as a result of EU integration deepening and widening in the nineties. Based on recent empirical evidence, these concerns are rejected. As concerns...

The present report provides an overview and discussion on the overall implementation of the Facility from April 2013 to December 2016. It covers the overall and quantified results of SOCIEUX, but also includes detailed information on actions completed in each country. Tables calculations have...

Die weltwirtschaftliche Aktivität ist infolge der Covid19-Pandemie im ersten Halbjahr 2020 voraussichtlich um fast 10 Prozent gesunken. Die Talsohle scheint aber inzwischen durchschritten, in China hat die Wirtschaft sogar bereits einen erheblichen Teil des Produktionseinbruchs vom Januar und...

Der Angriff Russlands auf die Ukraine und die strikte No-Covid-Politik in China haben die ohnehin bereits kräftige Inflation weltweit verstärkt und dazu geführt, dass Lieferengpässe wieder zugenommen haben. Die Reallöhne gehen in vielen Ländern deutlich zurück und dämpfen den privaten...