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The political economy of mass printing: Legitimacy and technological change in the Ottoman Empire

Coşgel, Metin M.; Miceli, Thomas J.; Rubin, Jared - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 40 (2012) 3, pp. 357-371

New technologies have not always been greeted with full enthusiasm. Although the Ottomans were quick to adopt advancements in military technology, they waited almost three centuries to sanction printing in Ottoman Turkish (in Arabic characters). Printing spread relatively rapidly throughout...

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Safety and security: The influence of 9/11 to the EU framework for air carriers and aircraft operators

Fox, Sarah - In: Research in Transportation Economics 45 (2014) C, pp. 24-33

Safety and security have always been two key objectives behind policies and innovation within the air transport industry, at international, European and individual government levels. The management of risk is important in aviation and has always been a challenge to the industry. The events of...

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Did patents of introduction encourage technology transfer? Long-term evidence from the Spanish innovation system

Sáiz, Patricio - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 8 (2014) 1, pp. 49-78

In this article, we reflect on how patents of introduction or importation, which compose an institutional policy related to weak IPR systems, could influence long-term international technology transfer. Both theoretically and empirically, the consequences of strengthening IPRs in lagging...

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A journey without maps: The regional policies of the 1964-70 British Labour Government

O'Hara, Glen - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 9, pp. 1183-1195

O'Hara G. (2005) A journey without maps: the regional policies of the 1964-70 British Labour Government, Regional Studies 39 , 1183-1195. This paper examines four influences on British regional policy in the late 1960s: party politics in the context of the economic environment; the structure of...

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CHINA'S POLICIES ON ITS BORDERLANDS AND THE INTERNATIONAL IMPLICATIONS

Hao, Yufan (contributor); Chou, Bill K P (contributor) - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

This book examines the interplay of two sets of policies: the Chinese government's policies to its borderlands and international relations. It proposes a conceptual framework and argues that China's policymakers fail to make complete use of the opportunities in the borderlands for accomplishing...

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REGIONALISM IN EAST ASIA:Why Has It Flourished Since 2000 and How Far Will It Go?

Pomfret, Richard - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

This book examines an important economic development in East Asia during the first decade of the 21st century. Whereas regional arrangements were, with the sole significant exception of ASEAN, conspicuously absent before 2000, they have proliferated since 2000 in both the monetary and trade...

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TRANSITION, REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBALIZATION:China and Central Europe

Morita, Ken; Chen, Yun - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Since the end of the Cold War, developing a better framework to correctly recognize which direction globalization and the transition will take us has been necessary. The transition economies of China and Central Europe, in particular, hold significant implications for East Asian integration and...

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A Political Economy Model of Merger Policy in International Markets

Motta, Massimo; Ruta, Michele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper looks at the political economy of merger policy under autarky and in international markets. We assume that merger policy is decided by antitrust authorities (whose objective is to maximize welfare) but can be influenced by governments, which are subject to lobbying by the firms (be...

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The temporal dimension of the credibility of EU conditionality and candidate statesâ€™ compliance with the acquis communautaire, 1998â€“2009

Böhmelt, Tobias; Freyburg, Tina - In: European Union Politics 14 (2013) 2, pp. 250-272

Existing research seems to agree that European Union (EU) accession conditionality facilitated processes of political … conditionality. Building upon previous theoretical accounts, the authors argue that candidatesâ€™ compliance behaviour can be … examined more thoroughly when focusing on the credibility of EU conditionality at different phases over the process of …

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Can the EU Anchor Policy Reform in Third Countries?

Tovias, Alfred; Ugur, Mehmet - In: European Union Politics 5 (2004) 4, pp. 395-418

The emerging literature on â€˜anchoringâ€™ draws attention to non-conventional benefits of regional integration arrangements, which include increased policy credibility. Nevertheless, this literature tends to view the anchoring of policy reform as an exogenously given option for a...

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