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Soft governance in education: The PISA study and the Bologna Process in Switzerland

Bieber, Tonia - Zentrum für Sozialpolitik, Universität Bremen - 2010

This paper analyzes the importance of governance of international organizations (IOs) to Swiss policy making in the field of education. The focus is on the Bologna Process driven by the European Commission, and the 'Programme for International Student Assessment' (PISA) of the Organization for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611539

Convergence through communication and competition? The internationalization of secondary and higher education policies in Switzerland

Bieber, Tonia - Zentrum für Sozialpolitik, Universität Bremen - 2011

the newly emerged, but ever more influential education-political actors of the OECD and the EU as promoters and of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003556

An Analysis of the Efficiency of Education Spending in Central and Eastern Europe

Aristovnik, Aleksander - International School for Social and Business Studies, …

The paper attempts to measure relative efficiency in utilizing public education expenditures in the new EU member … states in comparison to the selected EU (plus Croatia) and OECD countries. As resources allocated to education are … of (output-oriented) efficiency measures shows that among the new EU member states Hungary, Estonia and Slovenia seem to …

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Fiscal Policy and Growth: Do Financial Crises make a Difference?

Afonso, António; Grüner, Hans Peter; Kolerus, Christina - ISEG - School of Economics and Management, Department … - 2010

In this paper we assess to what extent in the existence of a financial crisis, government spending can contribute to mitigate economic downturns in the short run and whether such impact differs in crisis and non crisis times. We use panel analysis for a set of OECD and non-OECD countries for the...

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Bootstrap Panel Granger-Causality Between Government Budget and External Deficits for the EU

Afonso, António; Rault, Christophe - ISEG - School of Economics and Management, Department … - 2009

period 1970-2007, for different EU and OECD country groupings. We use a panel-data approach based on SUR systems and Wald … account deficits for several EU countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Italy, Hungary, Lithuania …

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Factor Mobility, Government Debt and the Decline in Public Investment

Heinemann, Friedrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

like the EU deficit limits. The econometric results indicate that the decline is largely due to two developments: First to … privatisation process nor EU deficit restrictions of the Maastricht Treaty can explain the decline. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098130

Bootstrap Panel Granger-Causality between Government Budget and External Deficits for the EU

Afonso, António; Rault, Christophe - CESifo - 2009

period 1970-2007, for different EU and OECD country groupings. We use the panel-data approach of Kónya (2006), which is based … budget deficits to current account deficits for several EU countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051497