Die Förderung sibirischen Erdgases und der Pipelinebau nach Europa waren das letzte industrielle Mammutprojekt der Sowjetunion - und zugleich eines ihrer erfolgreichsten Wirtschaftsprojekte. Der langfristige Erfolg zeigt sich bis heute im Export von Erdgas aus der Russischen Föderation. Auf...

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, historians of England pioneered a series of new approaches to the history of economic policy. Commerce, finance and statecraft charts the development of these forms of writing and explores the role they played in the period's economic, political and...

Wie kann das Verhältnis zwischen Familie und gemeinsamen Unternehmen langfristig konstruktiv gestaltet werden, sodass die Überlebensfähigkeit des Familienunternehmens über Generationen verbessert und damit der langfristige Fortbestand des Unternehmens gesichert ist? Mit einer...

The extent of low paid work and the particular features of its distribution are important public policy issues, especially as the growth in low paid work in recent decades has been an important contributory factor in the increasing levels of wage inequality in Australia and other industrialised...

To inform assessments of the quality of cancer care, we describe analytical approaches to characterizing trends in diffusion of chemotherapy drugs subsequent to their US FDA approval. The economics and medical literature provide two distinct sets of empirical methods for investigating diffusion...

The article brings into focus the main structural changes that have taken place in the Italian manufacturing enterprises in the last few years with the aim of ascertaining the firms’ reactions to the present crisis. During the period 2004-2007 Italian export firms showed a positive response to...

In order to promote peaceful development in cross-Strait relations, this article proposes that both sides of the Taiwan Strait sign a “Basic Agreement on Peaceful Cross-Strait Development” – a temporary agreement (modus vivendi) to determine political relations and future development...

El interés por promover y garantizar la calidad de la actividad docente en las universidades se ha materializado en la creación de diferentes mecanismos basados en la evaluación. Entre los mecanismos de evaluación creados en los últimos años merece especial mención el programa DOCENTIA,...

This paper studies the degree of integration of China's domestic market and investigates the determinants of inter-provincial trade barriers under the rubric endogenous trade policy theory. I rely on industry-level trade flows extracted from provincial input-output tables to develop a model that...

We explain in this work why a straight calibration to published input-output or SAM data in multisectoral modelling may lead to the use of an incorrect representation of the productive technology, hence casting doubts on the value of the empirical results. The culprit is the possible presence of...