This judicious selection of recent essays demonstrates the applicability of the fundamental principles of neo-Schumpeterian economics, namely, innovation and uncertainty. The authors demonstrate how neo-Schumpeterian economics is developing into a comprehensive economic theory encompassing...

Introduction -- Macroeconomic Policy Coherence and Gender Equality in Asia Pacific -- Measuring Gender Inequality -- Measuring Unpaid Care Economy -- Fiscal Policy and Gender Inequality in Asia Pacific -- Determining Gender Equality in Fiscal Federalism -- Political Economy of Gender Budgeting:...

Summary With this paper we attempt to complement the discussion on price volatility on stock markets by an approach, which can also take into consideration so-called nonrational behaviour. This happens by formally integrating socioeconomic elements into the price expectation process of the share...

Zusammenfassung In der vorliegenden Studie wird mit Hilfe der nicht-parametrischen DEA-Methode die relative Effizienz von representativ ausgewählten Stromversorgungsunternehmen in Deutschland bestimmt. Die DEA erlaubt es, auch nicht marktfähige In- und Outputfaktoren in die Analyse...

Summary In this paper we add new results to the investigation of productivity levels rather than productivity changes, as proposed by Hall/Jones (1996, 1997, 1999). To obtain measures of relative productivity levels we depart from traditional growth accounting and calculate the Malmquist index...