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Competitiveness and clusters : implications for a new European growth strategy
Ketels, Christian H. - 2015
This paper develops policy recommendations on the use of cluster-based economic policies and the adoption of a new concept of competitiveness in the context of the new growth path that WWWforEurope aims to outline. A first section discusses summarizes key findings from the previous research...
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Perspectives from the happiness literature and the role of new instruments for policy analysis
Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2007
After having been ignored for a long time by economists, happiness is becoming an object of serious research in 21st century economics. In Section 2 we sketch the present status of happiness economics. In Section 3 we consider the practical applicability of happiness economics, retaining the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372500
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Die Entwicklung sozialer Ungleichheit und ihre politischen Implikationen in den USA
Komlos, John; Schubert, Hermann - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 99 (2019) 3, pp. 216-223
Donald Trump gewann 2016 die Präsidentschaftswahlen, nachdem schon seit der Regierungszeit Ronald Reagans die oberen Einkommensschichten begünstigt worden waren. Der technische Fortschritt und die Globalisierung führten zu einem Wandel der Wirtschaftsstruktur zulasten der Mittel- und die...
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Economics and politics in Russia: on the eve of an acute crisis
Mau, Vladimir Aleksandrovič - In: Russian journal of economics 6 (2020) 2, pp. 91-113
challenges on Russia. It addresses main collisions that have emerged in recent years, including the proliferation of etatism and … the 2008-2009 global financial crisis. This is the foundation which we set for discussing Russia's economic agenda. …
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Creating capitalism : politics, reforms, and economic performance ; an econometric analysis of six countries from 1989-1999
Wykoff, Frank C. - 2001
Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Russia and Slovakia) over their first ten years of freedom. We draw three conclusions from … relatively popular, Russia, Hungary and Bulgaria, reform is slower, more problematic, and aimed toward a welfare state not US …
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Russia's macroeconomy : a closer look at growth, investment, and uncertainty
Becker, Torbjörn - 2019
This paper looks at economic growth and its fundamental determinants in Russia over the last decades. It starts by … Putin. Furthermore, regular models of growth are relevant to Russia and other transition countries over the last two decades … also key for Russia’s strategy to modernize and diversify its economy away from oil, gas and minerals extraction. However …
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A fragmented China
Poncet, Sandra - 2004
This paper studies the degree of integration of China's domestic market and investigates the determinants of inter-provincial trade barriers under the rubric endogenoustrade policy theory. I rely on industry-level trade flows extracted from provincial input-output tables to develop a model that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337997
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FDI impact on firm performance in enlarged Europe : evidence from a meta-regression analysis
Bruno, Randolph; Cipollina, Maria - 2014
This paper combines, explains and summarizes recent findings from the empirical literature focusing on the FDI's effect on firms' performances by collecting all the relevant firm level quantitative studies to run a regression of regressions focused on Enlarged Europe. The results show that there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339576
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The ups and downs of Turkish growth, 2002-2015 : political dynamics, the European Union and the institutional slide
Acemoglu, Daron; Üçer, Murat - 2015
We document a change in the character and quality of Turkish economic growth with a turning point around 2007 and link this change to the reversal in the nature of economic institutions, which eat underwent a series of growth-enhancing reforms following Turkey's financial crisis in 2001, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011491841
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The motives for the FDI location choice in the 'old' and 'new' Europe
Serwicka, Ilona Elzbieta; Jones, Jonathan; Wren, Colin M. - 2014
This paper adds to the scarce cross-country evidence on FDI location decisions between the EU-15 Member States and the ten new Members that joined the European Union (EU) in 2004 and 2007 from the Central and East European Countries (CEECs). To capture the discrete nature of the location choice,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011503069