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Using energy resources to diversify the economy: Agricultural price distortions in Kazakhstan

Pomfret, Richard - 2007

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...

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Suomen teollisuustuotannon uudistuminen tuotantolinjatasolla

Maliranta, Mika; Valmari, Nelli - 2017

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...

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Globalization comes to the rescue: How dependency makes us more resilient

Guinea, Oscar; Forsthuber, Florian - 2020

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...

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Economic Growth and Business Cycle Forecasting at the Regional Level

Lehmann, Robert - 2016

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...

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Banking Mergers and Acquisitions in the EU: Overview, Assessment and Prospects

Ayadi, Rym; Pujals, Georges - 2005

diversification. Against this background, we provide the main prospective scenarios for banking consolidation in the medium term after …

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FuE-Verlagerungen ins Ausland - Ausverkauf deutscher Entwicklungskompetenz? Ausmaß und Treiber von FuE-Verlagerungen im Verarbeitenden Gewerbe

Kinkel, Steffen; Maloca, Spomenka - 2008

FuE-Verlagerungen ins Ausland sind noch kein Phänomen, das die Breite des Verarbeitenden Gewerbes in Deutschland erreicht hat. Lediglich 3,6 Prozent der forschenden Betriebe haben von Mitte 2004 bis Mitte 2006 Teile ihrer FuE-Tätigkeiten ins Ausland verlagert. Allerdings war hier bereits jeder...

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Trends im Retail-Banking: Outsourcing im deutschen Bankensektor

Köhler, Matthias; Lang, Gunnar - 2008

Kernkompetenzen sowie die Optimierung der Wertschöpfungsprozesse geht mit einem konsequenten Outsourcing von Geschäftsbereichen und … zu Outsourcing in den kommenden Jahren fortsetzen wird. Vor allem einfache, leicht standardisierbare Prozesse werden …

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Outsourcing and Employment: A Decomposition Approach

Koller, W.; Stehrer, Robert - 2008

In this paper we study the employment effects of changes in the levels and patterns of outsourcing in the Austrian … components. Outsourcing is modelled as changes in the shares of domestically produced intermediates. For this some further … indirect effects of changes in the levels and structures of outsourcing.Second, the framework takes account of all 60 sectors …

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Motive, Strukturen und Auswirkungen deutscher Direktinvestitionen in Tschechien

Hecht, Veronika; Hohmeyer, Katrin; Litzel, Nicole; … - 2013

Im international angelegten IAB-Forschungsprojekt ReLOC - Research on Locational and Organisational Change - werden die Auswirkungen der Direktinvestitionen deutscher Unternehmen in Tschechien auf die Arbeitsmärkte in beiden Ländern untersucht. Analysiert werden u. a. die Effekte der...

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Kuntaeläkkeiden rahoitus ja kunnalliset palvelut

Lassila, Jukka; Määttänen, Niku; Valkonen, Tarmo - 2013

strengthens that of the private-sector system. Outsourcing, however, is not the only factor affecting the relative size of the two … municipalities, may increase the number of municipal employees substantially during the next 20 years even if outsourcing becomes … outsourcing decisions. …

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