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On February 12, 2010, SUERF, the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and the Bankwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft continued their established tradition of jointly organised conferences. As evidenced also by the 115 conference participants, this year's subject of "Contagion and Spillovers – New...
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Existing work on the economics of well-being suggests that a person's subjective well-being depends to a large degree on his relative standing within his social environment. In this paper, we examine whether access to modern information and telecommunication technologies has an impact on...
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This paper studies the influence of interregional inequality within countries on internal conflicts. Regional inequalities are measured by the population-weighted coefficient of variation of regional GDP per capita. As the main innovation, I use a panel data set of country-level regional...
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market skills. (5) The society in Russia - triggered by a lack of social capital - chooses to demand more state regulationand …
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Russia after price liberalisation in 1992. At the same time, the Russian official demographic statistics provides data that …
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Public debate about energy relations between the EU and Russia is distorted. These distortions present considerable … demand. Diverse interests inside the EU prevent the definition of a coherent and respected energy policy. Russia, for its … role of mere energy exporter. In view of the intensifying struggle for global resources, Russia, with its large energy …
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. Russia provides a unique setting to examine ultimate ownership patterns and the effectiveness of the corporate control model … control and ownership structures in Russia. The study suggests several adjustments to the traditional methodology used to …
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