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R & D, Innovation and Industrial Structure
The common topic of this collection of studies is the interaction between innova tive activity of firms and industrial structure. I call this interaction technological …
Economic Cycles in Emerging and Advanced Countries
?This book contributes to the debate on the decoupling of emerging economies from the advanced economies with a new, empirical investigation approach. Taking counterfactual …
Technological Change and Skill Development in Arab Gulf Countries
This book discusses skill formation, upskilling of workers, and their interaction with technological change in Gulf countries. Heavy dependence on oil, the 'Dutch Disease', and the …
Risk Management in Credit Portfolios
Risk concentrations play a crucial role for the survival of individual banks and for the stability of the whole banking system. Thus, it is important from an economical and a …
Social Security and Solidarity in the European Union
Since the 1970s social security in the European Union has been dominated by attempts at reform and cost control. In the last decade of the twentieth century these attempts have …
Multicriteria Evaluation in a Fuzzy Environment
This book is the result of some years of research carried out at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam and at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. The awareness of …
The Design of the Eurosystem's Monetary Policy Instruments
The creation of a single monetary currency and a single monetary policy in the euro area has faced extraordinary challenges, among them the design of suitable monetary policy …
Essays on Transport Economics
An analysis of the history of economic thought reveals that transport and econ- ics have always gone hand-in-hand. Many methodological developments in e- nomic theory have emerged …
Determinants of FDI in Central and Eastern Europe
This book provides a detailed examination of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) after closer integration in the European Union. An …
Trade and Environment
Even though the interlinkage between trade and environment is obvious and important, it has been acknowledged as such only recently by the world community. Yet it is far from being …
Effective and Efficient Organisations?
This book develops a conceptual framework for the relationship between organisation and output, and applies it to the analysis of German and British export support services. These …
International Brand Management of Chinese Companies
China is certainly doing its best to keep the world mesmerized by its e- nomic achievements. The Chinese economic growth story that begun 30 years ago has in terms of dynamics and …