Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial markets with bank-based financial markets as in Germany...

Labour market performance has differed considerably between OECD countries over the last two decades. The focus of the literature so far has been to ask whether these differences can be explained by varying degrees of labour market rigidities and generosity of wellfare states. This paper takes a...

Labor market performance tends to vary across countries and over time.These variances are investigated in regard to venture capital (VC) support provided within these countries to assist the creation of new business and job opportunities.When comparing the VC market of the United States to that...

In this paper we consider the trade creating effects of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) for a large sample of countries within the period 1962-2000. The paper builds upon existing literature by examining whether any significant effects of PTAs occur through a change in the variety of...