Wirtschaftslehre (76 Artikel)

Over the last 20 years, applied general equilibrium (AGE) modelling has developed from a small academic research program into a routinely used policy assessment tool. Major governments and internat...

Traditional trade theory explains trade only by differences between countries, notably differences in their relative endowments of factors of production. It suggests an inverse relationship between...

The interrelated issues analyzed in this book are as follows. With the integration of Europe, there are free movements in goods, services, short and long term capital, and direct investment. The Ge...

The Role of Financial Markets in the Transition Process

The more I live the more I learn. The more I learn the more I realize the less I know (Alan and Manly Bergman) This book is a slightly revised version of my dissertation thesis "Wages, hours restri...

Looking back over the last decade it can be said with some justification that sig nificant progress has been achieved on the way towards fully integrated financial markets in Europe. The 1993 Inter...

Erfahrungsberichte und Rahmenbedingungen

Lars Handrich German Advisory Group on Economic Reforms with the Ukrainian Government 1 Ukraine on the way to WTO membership The first announcements by Ukraine to join the World Trade Organisation ...

Stated Preferences in The Netherlands and Germany

South African Perspectives

Mit zunehmender Ausweitung der Geschäftstätigkeit von Unternehmungen aller Branchen über den nationalen Raum hinaus wächst die Bedeutung von Fragen der Finanzierung derartiger internationaler bzw. ...

Dieses Buch präsentiert die Ergebnisse einer Untersuchung, die der Arbeitskreis fUr ökonomische und soziologische Studien, Wien, initüert und koordiniert hat. Dem Arbeitskreis für ökonomische und s...

Die Spielregeln der Weltwirtschaft im Brennpunkt

Aus der Sicht der Neuen Politischen Ökonomie (Public Choice) werden internationale Organisationen untersucht, an denen Regierungen beteiligt sind. Im Unterschied zu den in der Literatur üblichen An...

Zu Beginn soll der Gedankengang umrissen und seine Aktualität belegt wer den. Anmerkungen zur Abgrenzung des Untersuchungsgegenstandes und zur Methode beschließen diesen Abschnitt. 1.1 Idee und Auf...

0. Einleitung.- 1. Drei Sichtweisen der Wechselkursbestimmung.- 1.1 Devisenmarkttheoretische Sichtweise versus makroökonomische Modelle für offene Volkswirtschaften.- 1.2 Devisenmarkttheoretische v...

Das Buch untersucht, wie sich die Wirkungsweise internationaler Wirtschaftspolitik durch die Einbeziehung von Multinationalen Unternehmungen (MNU) verändert. In den bisherigen Arbeiten zu diesem Th...

European central bank policy is already taking place today in an informal way. It comprises, in short, European exchange rate management and interest rate policy decisions within and without the Eu...

LIBERAL TRADE AND JAPAN THE INCOMPATIBILITY ISSUE IN ELECTRONICS What would be the cause of those many trade conflicts between Japan and the West? Do just lack of competitiveness and protectionism ...

The focus is on the inter action between demand and supply in a small open economy featuring the dynamics of private capital, public debt and foreign assets. The overlapping generations model serve...

In dieser Arbeit werden im Rahmen eines neuen systemtheoretischen Ansatzes fortdauernde Effekte im Außenhandel analysiert. Die völlige Analogie von magnetischer und außenwirtschaftlicher Hysteresis...

Oliver Landmann Nobody needs to be convinced of the importance of banking for the Swiss economy. The financial sector grew well above average in the past decade and now accounts for almost 10 % of ...

Technical change is produced by the interaction of a large number of technical, economic, social and institutional factors. One of the starting points is the concept of national innovation systems....

Das Buch analysiert auf der Basis eines Zwei-Länder-Modells den Zusammenhang zwischen der Gestaltung des Währungssystems und internationalen Konvergenzprozessen. Die aktuell diskutierten Ansätze de...

The treaty of Maastricht envisages the full economic and monetary union in Europe. With increasing real and monetary integration policy decisions in individual member countries tend to have a growi...

In Japan, the Delphi method is applied since 1971 to foresee possible technological developments. The same approach was used in Germany in 1992 for the first time. The German expert survey about th...

The economic performance of Austria and Italy during the last two decades is analysed by economists from both countries. Their contributions interpret observed historical facts starting from a macr...

In einem einheitlichen, auf relativ schwachen Annahmen basierenden mikroökonomischen Analyserahmen wird der optimale Einsatz von Finanzinstrumenten zum Hedging des Wechselkursrisikos untersucht. Ei...

This study was conceived while I was a research assistant in the Department of Development Economics at the University of Heidelberg. The atmosphere there stimulated my interest in the increasing i...

Anhand eines symmetrischen Zwei-Länder-Modells wird untersucht, welche soziale Wohlfahrt, bestimmt durch die mittlere Inflationsrate und die Absorptionsfähigkeit von Schocks, verschiedene monetäre ...

1. Introduction and overview Until still few years ago, economic growth theory (going back to Solow, 1956; for an introduction cf. Burmeister and Dobell, 1970) predicted convergence of both growth ...

In diesem Buch wird der Frage nachgegangen, welche Auswirkungen die Bildung einer Europäischen Währungsunion auf die Defizit- und Verschuldungspolitiken der Mitgliedsstaaten haben kann. Die Hypothe...

Der Band beschäftigt sich mit den Auswirkungen zunehmender Direktinvestitionen im Ausland auf die Exporttätigkeit. Dazu werden Modelle der Industrieökonomie und der neueren Außenhandelstheorie verw...

This dissenmion looks at increasing trade ilUegrorionjrom three angles: FirSl, what are welfare implications of trade integrmion and trading blocks? Second, what mechanism can improve the sustoinab...

1. Einleitung.- 1.1 Themenstellung.- 1.2 Zielsetzung und Aufbau der Arbeit.- 1.3 Begriffserklärung.- 2. Überblick über die japanische Geschichte.- 2.1 Die japanische Geschichte vor dem zweiten Welt...

Der Einfluß wirtschaftspolitischer Maßnahmen auf das Zusammenspiel der Größen Wachstum, Umwelt und Bevölkerung wird im neoklassischen Wachstumsmodell untersucht. Ausgehend von der Tatsache, daß die...

Dieses Lehrbuch vermittelt in kompakter Form einen Überblick über die Theorie des Internationalen Handels. Die mikroökonomische Analyse der internationalen Wirtschaftsbeziehungen wird oft als eine ...

1. Die Telekommunikationswirtschaft.- 2. Nachfrage- und angebotsinduzierter Deregulierungsdruck in der Telekommunikationswirtschaft.- 3. Regulierungstheoretische Entwicklungen und Telekommunikation...

Schon früh hat sich die japanische Technologiepolitik langfristig vorausschauend damit beschäftigt, wie sich Wissenschaft und Technologie entwickeln werden. Der Band stellt Methoden dieser Technikv...

One aim of this book is to examine the causes of fluctuations in the mark/dollar, pound/dollar, and yen/dollar real exchange rates for the period 1972-1994 with quarterly data to determine appropri...

This book explores the new macroeconomics of the European Monetary Union. It carefully discusses the effects of shocks and policy measures on em ployment, prices, and the current account. Take for ...

Most governments in today's market economies spend significant sums of money on labour market programmes. The declared aims of these programmes are to increase the re-employment chances of the unem...

Valuation and Optimality in Exchange Economies with a Countable Number of Agents.- Equilibrium Points of Non-Cooperative Random and Bayesian Games.- Equilibria of Large Games with Imperfect Observa...

Several interesting results on the economics of industrial districts are collected in this book. The first part investigates over internal determinants of industrial district competitiveness lookin...

The essays included in this book are the result ofseven years ofresearch spanning the 1990-1997 period. Most of them have been published in scientific magazines or as chapters of books. To the end ...

I Introduction and overview.- Contemporary public economics.- II Economics of public programs.- The changing economic status of U.S. disabled men:Trends and their determinants, 1982-1991.- The role...

Since the 1980s many developing countries have implemented macro-economic policy reforms to curb inflation, reduce fiscal deficits and control foreign debt. The policy instruments used, such as exc...

By introducing a new national currency in November 1993, the Republic of Kazakstan took a decisive step towards establishing its political and economic independence. In the following years, Kazakst...

by Viktor A. Yushchenko, Prime Minister of Ukraine The intensification of the integration processes on our continent entirely coincides with the national interests of Ukraine, a country which is un...

The pure theory of international economics operates within a methodological framework of (static) equilibrium modelling. This sets a number of restrictions to its capability to explain empirical ec...

Japan's deepest recession since the Second World War has come to an end in 2000. Yet, the task of reforming Japan is far from completed. The current political drift has brought deregulation to a pr...

Innovation networks are a major source for acquiring new information and knowledge and thus for supporting innovation processes. Despite the many theoretical and empirical contributions to the expl...

Die vorliegende Studie befaßt sich in Hinblick auf die Europäische Währungsunion mit dem Zusammenhang von Wechselkursschwankungen, Außenhandel und der Arbeitsmarkt-Performance. Es wird erstmalig sy...

1 Einführung.- 2 Begriffliche und modelltheoretische Erklärungen.- 2.1 Institutionen im Innovationssystem.- 2.2 Der Schumpeter'sche Innovationsbegriff und das Innovationsmodell der Marktentstehung....

Russlands Übergang zu einem marktwirtschaftlichen System ist in einer neuen kritischen Phase. Dieser Band behandelt Fragen der Wachstumspolitik, des Strukturwandels und der internationalen Integrat...

Die aktuellen Herausforderungen für die Freihandelsdoktrin kommen aus dem Kreis der heutigen Industrieländer, die die Entwicklung eines regelgebundenen multilateralen Handelssystems betrieben haben...

In March 1998 the European Union formally launched the accession process that will lead to a significant enlargement of the Union. So far ten countries from Central Europe: Bulgaria, the Czech Repu...

Economic spillovers, structural reforms and policy coordination in the Euro Area: An overview.- Budgetary spillovers and short-term interest rates.- Budgetary spillovers and long-term interest rate...

The EU and the Economies of the Eastern European Enlargement

I started researching the dramatic changes in the automobile industry of Central and East European countries in the late 1990s. My interest grew out of my previous work on the post-socialist transf...

The general review of the European Union's budget scheduled for the years 2008 and 2009 offers a unique opportunity for reflections. Explicitly this review is "without taboos" so that also substant...

The Effects of European Union Membership on Central and Eastern European Equity Markets

Economic spillovers, structural reforms and policy coordination in the Euro Area: An overview.- Budgetary spillovers and short-term interest rates.- Budgetary spillovers and long-term interest rate...

I started researching the dramatic changes in the automobile industry of Central and East European countries in the late 1990s. My interest grew out of my previous work on the post-socialist transf...

The Effects of European Union Membership on Central and Eastern European Equity Markets

Theoretical Insights, Empirical Evidence, and Economic Policy Recommendations for Germany

Imperfections in Financial Markets.- What Can Cash Shortfalls and Windfalls Tell Us About Finance Constraints?.- Non-Tobin's q in Tests for Financial Constraints to Investment.- Cash Holdings, Firm...

Theory and Policy Implications

This book offers the reader a state-of-the-art overview on theory and empirics of business cycle synchronisation, structural reform and economic integration. Focusing on the ongoing integration pro...

This book investigates whether the effects of economic integration differ according to the size of countries. The analysis incorporates a classification of the size of countries, reflecting the key...

The world is changing rapidly. The global economic crisis has called into question the political decisions that have been made by all countries for decades and has led to a re-formulation of tools ...

A Critical Analysis of Industrial Structure, Firm Specific Resources, and Emerging Strategies

Human societies face a threatening future of resource scarcity and environmental damages. This book addresses the challenge of turning these risks into opportunities and policies. It is a collectio...

This book investigates whether the effects of economic integration differ according to the size of countries. The analysis incorporates a classification of the size of countries, reflecting the key...

The world is changing rapidly. The global economic crisis has called into question the political decisions that have been made by all countries for decades and has led to a re-formulation of tools ...

This book offers the reader a state-of-the-art overview on theory and empirics of business cycle synchronisation, structural reform and economic integration. Focusing on the ongoing integration pro...