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This paper examines the relationship between the exchange rate regime and the pace of current account adjustment. The panel data set we refer to includes 11 catching-up countries from central, eastern and south-eastern Europe between 1994 and 2007. The exchange rate regime is measured by a...
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This paper examines the empirical relationship between agglomeration and economic growth for a panel of 48 Central and Eastern European regions from 1995 to 2006. By agglomeration, we mean the within-regional concentration of aggregate economic activity, which we measure using the 'topographic'...
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The goal ofthis comparative research isto investigate intra-market commonality inliquid-ity onsix small emerging Central and Eastern European (CEE) stock exchanges - inthe Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia. The CEE post-commu-nist countries can beanalyzed together...
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Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Frequently, this has … competing with the role of multilateral trade resistance. Our results support evidence for offshoring activities across Europe …
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faster task offshoring in sectors exposed to lower labour-market tightness. We discuss policy implications of these findings. …
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This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...
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The recent increase in R&D offshoring have raised fears that knowledge and competitiveness in advanced countries may be … which R&D offshoring is associated with productivity dynamics of European regions. We find that offshoring regions have … large and positive correlation emerge between the extent of R&D offshoring and the home region productivity growth …
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The Millennium Round of MTNs, which was stillborn in Seattle, was supposed to have initiated wide-sweeping changes to the world's trading system. This paper deals with the impact on the German economy of some changes that might have been forthcoming from proposed liberalization strategies. It...
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The Millennium Round of MTNs, which was stillborn in Seattle, was supposed to have initiated wide-sweeping changes to the world's trading system. This paper deals with the impact on the German economy of some changes that might have been forthcoming from proposed liberalization strategies. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260437