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The rapid journey from central planning to EU (euro area) membership stress-tested the social learning processes of the Former Transition Economies (FTEs). The desire for a higher standard of living, to be anchored to the West, and to enter the EU, spurred major reform waves and led to the very...
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The last decades have witnessed the rise of a new wave of economic regionalism, the most remarkable example of which is the European Union. Regional economic integration is generally interpreted either as an attempt to resist the centrifugal forces of globalisation by strenghtening economic ties...
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Microfinance aims at providing basic financial services such as loans, savings and insurance to socially and … microfinance. Microcredit supplies financial means to start up businesses and to finance microenterprises. Microfinance originated … presents the relevance, efficiency and impact of microfinance policy and its policy instruments with respect to support for …
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The paper traces the rise and decline of solar cell commercialization efforts during the 1970s and early 1980s in the United States. It shows how technology policies for photovoltaic appliances gained and lost support in a time of increasing uncertainty about future resource supplies and the...
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widely examined. However, the interplay between the involved firms in a collusive agreement, i.e., the governance dimension … paper empirically reveals that polycentric structures within the cartel governance may contribute to longer duration and … aspects: The entangled governance structures of collusive undertakings as well as the relevance of polycentricity in the firm …
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