The agricultural sector in Kazakhstan experienced declining output throughout the 1990s, partly because relative prices shifted from being distorted in favor of farmers to being distorted against them. After the end of the decade public policy shifted towards support for (or less discrimination...

Die Befragung sollte einen ersten Eindruck davon vermitteln, wie die Umsetzung tariflicher Abweichungen vom Flächentarifvertrag in der Praxis bewertet werden. Angesichts eines nach wie vor vom Flächentarifvertrag dominierten Systems industrieller Beziehungen interessierte v.a. die Praxis...

Die Chemieindustrie umfasst die Produktion von chemischen Stoffen und Arzneimitteln und stellt knapp 5 Prozent aller Betriebe im Verarbeitenden Gewerbe. Das Produktspektrum reicht dabei von Aspirin über Ethen bis hin zur Zahnpasta. Entsprechend vielfältig sind die Unternehmen der...

We characterize increases and decreases in plant-product -level output sales in the Finnish manufacturing sector during years 2006 to 2015. We show that during the recession of 2008 to 2009, the intensity of variation in plant-product -level sales diminished, and it took several years until the...

A key goal of politicians is to ensure a sustainable and stable economic growth path for their domestic economy. Economic forecasts are powerful tools for reducing uncertainty about future economic growth. While most of the research conducted to date has focused on nation states, this thesis by...

A new consensus is growing across the European Union - and other parts of the world too: that globalization has gone too far. The argument goes as follows: as an exchange for higher efficiency and lower prices, Europe has sacrificed its ability to take care of itself and protect its own...

This Occasional Paper examines how and why the institutional framework governing EMU has evolved since the creation of the euro. Building on theories of institutionalism, the paper in particular investigates to what extent functional spillovers from the single currency into other policy domains,...