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The Transatlantic Banking Crisis: Lessons and EU Reforms

Welfens, Paul J. J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

The key dynamics of the transatlantic banking crisis are analyzed – with emphasis on the fact that the banking disaster of 2007/08 was not really a surprise –, and the five key requirements for restoring stability and efficiency in the EU/OECD banking sector are highlighted. Most important,...

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Macroeconomic factors' influence on 'new' European countries' stock returns: the case of four transition economies

Samitas, Aristeidis G.; Kenourgios, Dimitris F. - In: International Journal of Financial Services Management 2 (2007) 1/2, pp. 34-49

European countries (UK, France, Italy and Germany) are included in the empirical analysis, whilst USA is considered as a …

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To what extent are American and Japanese managerial concepts and techniques converging?

Grayson, Leslie E.; Watson, Orson - In: Global Business and Economics Review 1 (1999) 2, pp. 139-157

This paper explains the effects of the Japanese recession and the accelerated pace of globalisation and technological diffusion on the rationalisation of what were previously held up as the mainstays of Japanese management. These are the key questions: What caused the failure of the superior...

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Why does the US want to adopt the IFRS?

Nouri, Hossein; Shahid, Abdus - In: International Journal of Economics and Accounting 3 (2012) 2, pp. 115-132

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the implications of an adoption of IFRS in the USA on companies' earnings … and on stock prices. This paper reviews literature on previous accounting changes in the USA and their impacts on stock … study concludes that the adoption of IFRS in the USA is a political, economical, and social process and not one based on …

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Forecasting US renewables in the national energy modelling system

Diedrich, Roger; Petersik, Thomas W. - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 15 (2001) 1/2, pp. 141-158

through to 2020. The USA is expected to remain primarily a fossil energy producer and consumer throughout the period. An …

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Institutions and the sources of innovation: the determinants and effects of international R%D collaboration

Shapiro, Matthew A.; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - In: International Journal of Public Policy 8 (2012) 4/5/6, pp. 230-250

This paper examines the phenomenon of international R%D collaboration in the form of cross-national patenting. Using a unique dataset on patents from the USPTO for a maximum of 125 countries over the period 1975-2005, we show that, despite the potential for technological advancement arising from...

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Credit cycle and monetary policy: John Rogers Commons as a ‘monetarist’

Adair, Philippe - In: Cahiers d’économie politique / Papers in Political … (2013) 64, pp. 45-74

Commons sketches an institutionalist theory of property based on debt, that is a potential of expected income, and the vector of which is the monetary system. His monetary theory of the credit cycle inspires from Wicksell and Fisher’s debt-deflation theory, rather than from Fisher’s quantity...

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Managing uncertainty: A grounded theory of stigma in transgender health care encounters

Poteat, Tonia; German, Danielle; Kerrigan, Deanna - In: Social Science & Medicine 84 (2013) C, pp. 22-29

A growing body of literature supports stigma and discrimination as fundamental causes of health disparities. Stigma and discrimination experienced by transgender people have been associated with increased risk for depression, suicide, and HIV. Transgender stigma and discrimination experienced in...

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It’s Agriculture, Stupid! Stolpersteine auf dem Weg zu einem transatlantischen Handelsabkommen

Mildner, Stormy-Annika; Schmucker, Claudia - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 66 (2013) 03, pp. 13-16

Ein EU-US-Freihandelsabkommen ist seit Jahren überfällig. Anfang Februar 2013 wird die US-EU High Level Group on Growth and Jobs höchstwahrscheinlich die Aufnahme von Verhandlungen empfehlen. Stormy-Annika Mildner, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), und Claudia Schmucker, Deutsche...

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European migration, national origin and long-term economic development in the US

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Berlepsch, Viola von - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2013

Have Irish, German or Italian settlers arriving in the US at the turn of the 20th century left an institutional trace which determines economic development differences to this day? Does the national origin of migrants matter for long-term development? This paper explores whether the distinct...

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