This milestone provides a broad overview of model development under Work Package 205 of the WWWforEurope project. It describes briefly the challenge of modelling combined economic, ecological and financial systems and sets out a series of objectives for modelling the socio-economic transition...

This paper discusses the goal conflict between social protection and economic growth as well as employment. Taking the German economy as an example for the large continental economies of Old Europe, it analyzes twenty mechanisms that affect the fundamentals of the economy negatively and imply...

Der Krieg in der Ukraine wird für Russland tiefgehende geopolitische und ökonomische Konsequenzen haben. In einem beispiellosen Ausmaß hat der Westen Sanktionen gegen Russland verhängt, die die jahrzehntelangen ökonomischen Verflechtungen weitestgehend auflösen. Zugleich erlebt Russland...

This paper supplements prior analysis on 'patterns and prospects' (Stephan, 2003) in which prospects for the speed of future productivity growth were assessed by looking at the specialisation patterns in domestic production. This analysis adds the foreign trade sphere to the results generated in...

This milestone provides a broad overview of model development under Work Package 205 of the WWWforEurope project. It describes briefly the challenge of modelling combined economic, ecological and financial systems and sets out a series of objectives for modelling the socio-economic transition...

The note documents and discusses the modalities and consequences of the phenomenon of siphoning profits of state enterprises for private uses by state enteprise managers and insiders in Bulgaria during the period of early transition.

This milestone provides a broad overview of model development under Work Package 205 of the WWWforEurope project. It describes briefly the challenge of modelling combined economic, ecological and financial systems and sets out a series of objectives for modelling the socio-economic transition...

This work aims to present the exact thinking and action of the Romanian Communist leaders that had as declared purpose the Romanian societyâ€(tm)s propseprity company. This falls into the line drawn by the Communists, but in the case of Romania the ambitions were far above the country\'s...

This paper discusses the goal conflict between social protection and economic growth as well as employment. Taking the German economy as an example for the large continental economies of Old Europe, it analyzes twenty mechanisms that affect the fundamentals of the economy negatively and imply...

Der Krieg in der Ukraine wird für Russland tiefgehende geopolitische und ökonomische Konsequenzen haben. In einem beispiellosen Ausmaß hat der Westen Sanktionen gegen Russland verhängt, die die jahrzehntelangen ökonomischen Verflechtungen weitestgehend auflösen. Zugleich erlebt Russland...