Policy attention to the security industry increased substantially after the terrorist attacks in the U.S. on September 11th, 2001. With an increased demand for security, the global security market grew a tenfold to around €100 billion in 2011. Many studies expect that growth of the worldwide...

Nach den Ergebnissen des ifo Investitionstests Frühjahr 2012 zeichnet sich im ostdeutschen Verarbeitenden Gewerbe für 2012 eine Steigerung der Investitionen um rund 11% und für 2011 ein Zuwachs der Investitionsvolumina um gut 8% ab.

This paper provides a new cross-country evaluation of competitiveness, focusing on the linkages between productivity and export performance among European economies. We use the information compiled in the Trade module of CompNet to establish new stylized facts regarding the joint distributions...