investors and clients cannot be observed. There are two main reasons for this: First, ideology is much more crucial for the … trade and investment. Therefore, Kim Jong-un is trapped between short-term ideology-based regime stability and nuclear …

. We find that ideological preferences, as expressed by people voting for party programs, have converged - but less so in … convergence inside the Euro Area while it is significantly weaker outside the Euro Area. However, since the end of the Cold War …

convergence, and a carefully estimated econometric model of lagged adjustment confirms this. On average, a 1% decrease in the per … transition country by 0.7%. There are differences in the rate of convergence across countries, and these depend on two parameters … fastest convergence rates given these parameters are the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Croatia and Turkey. The forecast values for …