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Restructuring of Energy-intensive Industrial Branches in Romania and Proposals for Industrial Policy Measures

Christie, Edward; Hunya, Gabor; Urban, Waltraut - 2007

Part 1 of the report provides an overview of the position of energy-intensive industries in Romania as compared to other Central and East European economies. The industries identified as particularly 'energy-intensive' are the paper industry, the chemical, the non-metallic mineral products and...

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Energy Efficiency and EU Industrial Competitiveness: Energy Costs and their Impact on Manufacturing Activity

Astrov, Vasily; Hanzl-Weiss, Doris; Leitner, Sandra M.; … - 2015

Environmental objectives of the EU and the widened energy price gap between the EU and the United States have recently given rise to concerns about the competitiveness of European manufacturing industries, particularly their energy-intensive branches. The study demonstrates that industrial...

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Fokus Finanzsektor - Österreichs Direktinvestitionen in Mittel- und Osteuropa

Stöllinger, Roman - 2010

Die mittel- und osteuropäischen Länder (MOEL) stellen wichtige Zielländer für die Direktinvestitions-Aktivitäten österreichischer Unternehmen und Banken dar. Seit 2001 entfielen stets über 50% der gesamten ausländischen Direktinvestitionen (FDI) auf diese Region, was sich erst 2009 durch...

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Arbeitskosten, Steuerbelastung und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit in Österreich im Vergleich mit ausgewählten CEEs

Havlik, Peter; Leitner, Sebastian; Römisch, Roman - 2011

Die vorliegende Studie analysiert in einem internationalen Vergleich die wichtigsten Merkmale der Entlohnung und Besteuerung des Faktors Arbeit, die Produktivität und andere Faktoren der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit sowie die Zusammensetzung des Steueraufkommens in Österreich (AT) und neun mittel-,...

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Measurement of Costs and Benefits of Accession to the European Union for Selected Countries in Central and Eastern Europe

Mortensen, Jorgen; Richter, Sandor - 2000

This paper is the final report of a research project whose aim was to analyse the methodology of calculating the costs and benefits for the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia of the envisaged accession to the European Union. The research focused particularly on the impact of the...

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Structural Change in the Transition Economies, 1989 to 1999

Landesmann, Michael - 2000

This report gives an overview of patterns of structural change in Central and Eastern European economies over the decade 1989-1999. The analysis in this paper is restricted to a sub-sample of transition economies, namely the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs) - with the exception of...

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The CEECs in the Enlarged Europe: Convergence Patterns, Specialization and Labour Market Implications

Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - 2002

This paper discusses the evolution of competitiveness, industrial and trade specialization of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs). It is shown that the paths taken by the different CEECs have been quite diverse and we attempt to show that a combination of a catching-up plus trade...

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What is Happening to Growth in Europe?

Dobrinsky, Rumen - 2013

growth regressions. During the decade prior to the global economic and financial crisis, the growth model in the EU was … crisis in the euro area rejected this growth model on the grounds of its unsustainability. The current debt overhang implies … of the crisis. The paper also addresses some policy issues related to the possible invigoration of economic growth in the …

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Development Patterns of Central and East European Countries (in the course of transition and following EU accession)

Podkaminer, Leon - 2013

The patterns of Central and East European countries' (CEECs) development in the course of transition and following EU accession have been determined by these countries' generally uncritical adoption of policies consistent first with the commandments of the Washington Consensus and then with the...

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Economic Convergence and Structural Change: the Role of Transition and EU Accession

Dobrinsky, Rumen; Havlik, Peter - 2014

crisis on GDP growth were considerably stronger in the case of NMS. The growth patterns were interrupted and the convergence …

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