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A new taxonomy of country performance and risk based on economic and technological indicators
Coccia, Mario - In: Journal of Applied Economics X (2007) May, pp. 29-42
This paper proposes a new taxonomy for countries based on principal component analysis. The paper investigates 51 countries using a set of 13 indicators of economic and technological performance for the period 2000-2002. The methodology reduces the variables and groups the countries that show...
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Considerations Concerning the Functioning of the Knowledge Markets: the Impact on Competition, Prices and Development
DUMITRASCU, Vadim - In: Romanian Statistical Review Supplement 60 (2012) 4, pp. 183-188
Massive application of knowledge in economic activities represents the cornerstone of the New Economy. Knowledge invested in business processes outlines the nucleus of the intellectual capital of both companies and territories. But the quality of the intellectual capital is determined by the...
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Sustainable growth and modernization under environmental hazard and adaptation
HRITONENKO, Natali; YATSENKO, Yuri - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2011
) compensate the decrease of the environmental amenity value, (b) compensate the decrease of total productivity, (c) develop and … in the long run to a higher level of capital modernization compared to the benchmark case with no hazard. A synergism … between productivity-related and amenity-related adaptation activities arises because the productivity- related adaptation …
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On The Sustainability of External Debt: Is Debt Relief Enough?
Prizzon, Annalisa; Vaggi, Gianni - 2009
trade-off between regular debt service and human development expenditures. All the more so because mosto LICs suffer from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335276
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Economic Challenges of Lagging Regions I: Fiscal and Macroeconomic Environment
Brown, Adam; Gardiner, Ben; Römisch, Roman; Stenning, … - 2017
The report analyses the fiscal and macroeconomic environment in the lagging regions and the relevant Member States of the EU, as a sound and sustainable macroeconomic framework is a necessary, but by itself not a sufficient precondition for investment and growth in the regions. It starts with...
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Online Annex – Economic Challenges of Lagging Regions: Annex I – Country Case Studies
Brown, Adam; Gardiner, Ben; Römisch, Roman; Stenning, … - 2017
This report is an annex to wiiw Research Report 421, 'Economic Challenges of Lagging Regions I Fiscal and Macroeconomic Environment'. It provides eight detailed country case studies, analysing the fiscal and macroeconomic environment in Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania...
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Tax competition, globalization and declining social protection
Murshed, S. Mansoob - 2001
The decline, or stagnation, in broad-based social expenditure, so crucial to the well being of mother and child, occurs because of various reasons. First, the government may derive less utility from this category of expenditure, compared to spending on its political support group, the military...
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Conditionality and endogenous policy formation in a political setting
Murshed, S. Mansoob - 2001
The paper examines two issues associated with aid and fiscal policy. First, how best the conditionality behind foreign aid, sometimes non-economic, is complied with in a principal-agent framework. In a multiple task and multiple principal framework, principals are better off cooperating and...
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Strategic interaction and donor policy determination in a domestic setting
Murshed, S. Mansoob - 2002
agents and the trade-off between adverse selection and moral hazard. It also considers multiple task agents, and where there …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279281
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Die Jagd auf den Zins oder: die Fiskalpolitik der Regierung Monti und ihre Folgen
Grasse, Alexander - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 92 (2012) 11, pp. 751-758
balance of trade recorded a surplus, an interest rate spread remains. At the same time, the government's austerity measures …
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