The study analyses the impact of monetary and fiscal policy pursued by one member country of an exchange rate union on its own macroeconomic performance as well as on those of the other member countries and of the rest of the world. Since the analytical framework is defined by a three-country...

This book supplies a categorization of the manifold interlinkages between trade and environment. It investigates two central ones in detail. The trade regulatory is pursued on a theoretical as well as original paradigmatic basis. For an open economy unilaterally setting its environmental process...

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 macroeconomic level down to disaggregated structural issues. The performance as well as prospects of...

I: The Role of Exchange Rate Regimes -- 1 Exchange Rate Policy and Real Exchange Rate Changes in Economic Transition -- 2 The Polish Exchange Rate Policy and Economic System Transformation -- 3 Economic Recovery and Foreign Exchange Rate Regime: The Case of the Czech Republic -- 4 The Birth and...

The opening first of the Soviet and subsequently Russian economy finally exposed it legitimately to global standards; so too, the management of research and development (R&D), which is the subject of this book. The work offers an up-to-date review of the status of Soviet R&D and its positionin...