Die Arbeit befasst sich mit den Auswirkungen der Ostöffnung auf Grenzregionen entlang des ehemaligen Eisernen Vorhangs. Hierbei wird besonders auf die Veränderungen am Arbeitsmarkt eingegangen. Die grundlegende Hypothese war, dass es in den betrachteten Regionen aufgrund des externen Schocks...

This thesis tries to discuss critically at least two issues regarding European Eastern Enlargement. It tries to offer an analysis of the reasons why the EU had made the decision to enlarge eastwards, even though the advantages were not clear. A further aim will be to raise issues about the...

Economic criminality is a criminal activity that violates the economic and property values of the state, harms the public budget, and causes losses to economic entities, harms society in general. Combating and preventing this criminal activity that takes on transnational crime dimensions...

Premiumautomobilmarken wie Alfa Romeo, Audi, BMW, Jaguar, Mercedes-Benz oder Volvo sind seit den Sechziger Jahren sehr aktiv bei der Einführung neuer Produktlinien. Insbesodere in den letzten Jahren sind immer häufiger Eintritte in kleinere Segmente zu verzeichnen (Beispiele: Mercedes-Benz...

This study addresses the potential trade-off between inflation and exchange rate targeting in former transition countries, which now may be labeled emerging market economies and which prepare for entry into the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Among this group of countries, some implemented...

Technology transfer and the so-called productivity spillover-effects are important aspects of foreign direct investments regarding their contribution to the long-term development potential of the host countries.The effects of the foreign direct investments on the foreign and domestic companies...

This paper is concerned with the determinants of international steam-coal trade. Most work in projecting coal trade has been either qualitative (a consensus of experts) or, if quantitative, has been based on competitive spatial-equilibrium models. Unfortunately, the competitive model of trade...

This paper studies the impact of European bank mergers and acquisitions on changes in key safety and soundness measures of both acquirers and targets. We find that capitalization, profitability and liquidity show signs of statistically and economically signifi cant mean reversion for acquirers....

En este estudio investigamos los determinantes de las emisiones denominadas en dólares de deuda a largo plazo por parte de la banca europea. Para ello empleamos una base de datos que permite explorar los factores que, según la literatura, explican las emisiones en moneda extranjera. Incluimos...