This study addresses the potential trade-off between inflation and exchange rate targeting in former transition countries, which now may be labeled emerging market economies and which prepare for entry into the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Among this group of countries, some implemented...

Involuntary migration and resettlement is examined as a development strategy and analyzed in an intensive study of the New Halfa Scheme in eastern Sudan. New Halfa was created between 1962 and 1969 to foster economic development through large-scale irrigated agriculture and to compensate,...

Research into adoption, acceptance and consumption of Information Technology (IT) within its diffusion cycle has been extensively studied in Information Systems (IS) and marketing. However, research often focused too narrowly on technology adoption rates and drivers leading to technology...

This dissertation postulates that as effect of the model of development adopted by Puerto Rican authorities since the late forties, Puerto Rico became a "Regional Armature" of U.S. intensive accumulation and monopolist regulation over the 1950-1980 period. The asymmetrical insertion of the...

While many hotel companies have participated in various green initiatives and adopted green policy, when it came to the real purchasing decision, their willingness was not matched by action. There could be many reasons for such inconsistency. Lack of consumer demand, increasing environmental...

This dissertation argues that the impetus, growth, and financial success of many North American high-tech companies--biotechnology, computer software development and design, as well as Internet startups--are partly due to their collective way of organizing the production and distribution of...

Ziel der Arbeit ist die Analyse von Lohndifferentialen. Der überwiegende Anteil der Studien erklärt Lohndifferentiale auf Basis der neoklassischen Theorie, derzufolge die Lohnhöhe das Ergebnis der Transaktionen von Arbeitsangebot und -nachfrage am Arbeitsmarkt sind. Beobachtbare...

This report starts where the previous quarterly publication ended. This first publication of a new annual series contains most of the same data as the quarterly report, plus some new material, through 1991. It also presents historical data covering a longer period of time than the previous...

This report reviews recent global efforts to privatize energy resources and outlines the opportunities and challenges privatization has presented to U.S. and foreign multinational energy companies. The group of energy companies studied in this report includes the major U.S. petroleum companies...

This paper is concerned with the determinants of international steam-coal trade. Most work in projecting coal trade has been either qualitative (a consensus of experts) or, if quantitative, has been based on competitive spatial-equilibrium models. Unfortunately, the competitive model of trade...