We analyze the link between firms' access to finance and their decisions to enter and exit the export market. We employ the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) conducted in 2005 and 2008-2009 to 28 countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. We find that more...

We analyze the link between firms’ access to finance and their decisions to enter and exit the export market. We employ the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) conducted in 2005 and 2008-2009 to 28 countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. We find that more...

The purpose of this document is to inform Bank staff and other interested parties about recent developments in integration and trade among the countries of the Western Hemisphere and between these and other countries and world regions.

The purpose of this document is to inform Bank staff and other interested parties about recent developments in integration and trade among the countries of the Western Hemisphere and between these and other countries and world regions.

Die Berechnung des Produktionspotentials nach der Kommissionsmethodea beruht auf einer Cobb-Douglas-Produktionsfunktion mit den Produktionsfaktoren Arbeit und Kapital, wobei abnehmende partielle Grenzproduktivitäten unterstellt werden. Die dritte Komponente der Cobb-Douglas-Produktionsfunktion...

In jüngster Zeit ist deutlich geworden, dass Griechenland trotz der Finanzhilfen durch den IWF und die EU seinen finanziellen Verpflichtungen nur schwer nachkommen kann. Außerdem wird bezweifelt, dass die griechische Regierung die ausgehandelten Auflagen vollständig erfüllt, sodass...

Im Verlauf der vergangenen Jahre sind die Nettokapitalimporte der Schwellenländer stark gestiegen. Dabei sind die Zuflüsse sowohl struktureller als auch zyklischer Natur. Strukturell haben sich die makroökonomischen Rahmenbedingungen mit inzwischen zumeist solide Staatsfinanzen, hohen...

Because of large economic and environmental asymmetries among world regions and the incentive to free ride, an international climate Regime with broad participation is hard to reach. Most of the so far proposed Regimes base on an allocation of emission rights that is to be perceived as fair....

In this paper we emphasize the role of institutions in economic analysis. We describe and compare different institutional classifications systems, which is rarely done in the literature, and show how to operationalize institutional classification based on the subject category, as the most...

We find evidences of significant volatility co-movements and/ or spillover from different financial markets to forex market for Indian economy. Among a large number of variables examined, volatility spillovers from stock market, government securities market, overnight index swap, Ted spread and...