smaller output decline than the Euro area and the entire EU while the CIS, especially its European part, contracted more …). With some exceptions, the previous good growth performance helped rather than handicapped countries in the CEE and CIS …

international comparison the key characteristics and recent developments of labour costs, taxation and productivity in Austria and …

This paper employs a standard Tobin-Markowitz framework to analyse the determinants of capital flows into the CIS … flows into the CIS (both directly and indirectly). Firstly, it introduced a structural shift in the investors' behaviour by … also drastically changed the impact of a number of explanatory variables on capital flows into the CIS. Political risk was …

During the last two decades the CIS countries have received very significant amounts of technical assistance from … the area of technical cooperation with CIS countries. This paper intends to outline these problems, analyze their … underlying reasons - including the changing environment for technical cooperation in the CIS - and the interaction of the …

This paper examines the motives behind foreign direct investment (FDI) in a group of four CIS countries (Ukraine …-national enterprises (MNEs) are predominantly oriented at serving local markets. Most MNEs in the CIS operate as 'isolated players …', maintaining strong links to their parent companies, while minimally cooperating with local CIS firms. The surveyed firms secure …

The CIS region is of vital importance for the EU countries considering that both are interconnected through cooperation … the large reserves of natural resources (particularly gas and oil) and due to the size of the CIS market of 277 million … democratisation trends in the CIS. Russia is the most important CIS partner for a majority of EU countries. Energy plays a …

eventual ENP economic offer is meaningful and integration with the EU is getting stronger public support in several CIS …

cover essentially all firms in the Finnish business sector, we first document that labor productivity dispersion is very … market equilibrium and whether innovation subsidies can improve industry productivity by mitigating such a tax distortion. …

innovators from high-productivity firms. These findings suggest that innovation subsidies contribute to economic renewal and the …