Austria's 15-year EU membership has been a success story. It gave Austria an additional growth impulse of 0.6 percentage points and facilitated the creation of 14,000 new jobs. The main difficulty in estimating these integration effects consists in taking account of several simultaneous events:...

The present analysis has been inspired by the book entitled The Quality Assurance in Higher Education in the Central and East-European Countries – Agenda Ahead, edited by Jan KOHOUTEK, UNESCO-CEPES, Studies on Higher Education, Bucharest, 2009, presenting the outcome of the Research Plan...

This paper asks: what can governments of new member states do to encourage MNEs to invest in R&D? There are two types of MNE R&D. Innovation can be undertaken in order to adapt its existing products and services to local stimuli. This is 'demand-driven R&D'. Innovation can also be in stand-alone...

A 25 tagúvá bővült Európai Unió számára soha nem tapasztalt kihívást jelent az elmaradott térségek felzárkóztatása, a gazdasági és társadalmi kohézió. Nemcsak a tagállamok között, de tagállamokon belül is jelentős fejlettségbeli különbségek tapasztalhatók, melyek a...

This paper asks: what can governments of new member states do to encourage MNEs to invest in R&D? There are two types of MNE R&D. Innovation can be undertaken in order to adapt its existing products and services to local stimuli. This is 'demand-driven R&D'. Innovation can also be in stand-alone...

We examine the impact on the UK of the influx of workers from Eastern Europe. We look at the characteristics of the workers who have come to the UK since 2004. We also use data from a number of Eurobarometers 2004-2007 as well as the 2005 Work Orientation module International Social Survey...

If a country’s imports are invoiced in a foreign currency then the import prices paid by consumers, and the importing country’s inflation rate, are vulnerable to exchange rate movements. Using a unique multiple market model I exam a representative firm’s currency denomination decision when...

Der heimische Mark ist infolge des EU-Beitritts in erster Linie für die ausländischen Unternehmen zu einem Teil des internationalen Marktes geworden, von den heimischen KMU profitierten eher die mittelständischen Unternehmen von den Vorteilen des Beitritts. Von den Kleinunternehmen scheinen...