The notion of sectoral approaches – in which developing and emerging economies are incentivized to undertake efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions intensity or growth in key industrial sectors, potentially with assistance from developed countries – play an important role in the debate...

The creation and accumulation of knowledge constitutes without any doubt one of the major drivers of progress and development. The incontrovertible evidence of that creative process is present everywhere in our daily routines and societies. However, it is rather difficult to define a measure of...

The WIOD database allows for improved empirical analysis on a wide range of important environmental research questions. In this paper we demonstrate the scientific potential of the WIOD database and give answers for very urgent policy questions on the impacts of international trade and...

The research and bank model developed in this paper for the case of Indonesia is motivated by the following: 1. A recent change in banking regulations in Indonesia, like the statutory reserve requirement and full implementation of Basel II in 2011, coupled with a lack of literature to document...

The past two decades have witnessed many episodes of economic reform across the developing world. Although initiated with popular enthusiasm, sustaining and completing these reform packages has turned out to be much more difficult, with policymakers having to `walk the line' between success and...

The article investigates the interrelations between the initial members of the Euro area and five Central and Eastern European economies.Structural vector error correction approach, theoretically derived restrictions on the cointegration matrix, generalized impulse response analysisHigh degree...

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This paper presents a comparative analysis of innovation behaviour at the firm level across countries with different levels of technological development. The literature has argued mostly from a macroeconomic perspective (e.g. Silverberg and Verspagen 1995, Acemoglu – Aghion – Zillibotti...

This paper is intended as a first approach to effectiveness of the wage reduction in promoting the international competitiveness of the Portuguese economy. It is general knowledge that the promotion of international competitiveness can be promoted by three distinct pathways. The first is to...

General analyses of household income at expenditure side as well as comparison of wage differences and mean net equalized income are mostly based on nominal comparisons. Regional indexes at regional level are not available at most European countries, so there is problem to estimate real wages...