The book contributes to answering the questions raised by mayors, governors, and federal government officials in Brazil: "What can cities do to improve economic performance and create jobs?" The question is approached through a review of theories and policy options for city competitiveness,...

Attraction of private investments to green energy resources projects is one of the most important controversial issues among scholars. In this paper, the association between green fiscal policy and green monetary policy on green energy investment is analyzed for the case of India from 1990 to...

Purpose This study aims to improve the robot’s performance during interactions with human and uncertain environments. Design/methodology/approach A joint stiffness model was established according to the molecular current method and the virtual displacement method. The position and stiffness...

Spanish Abstract: El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar las diferentes estrategias de internacionalización empleadas por China desde el inicio de su proceso de liberalización económica hasta la actualidad, en un contexto en el que su modelo de crecimiento se encuentra inmerso en un proceso...

Tension is growing between the interests of the middle classes that are in decline in the mature economies and the rising ones in emerging markets. The aim of the public policies proposed in this paper is to impede such a clash by not threatening de-globalisation, avoiding protectionism,...

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar las diferentes estrategias de internacionalización empleadas por China desde el inicio de su proceso de liberalización económica hasta la actualidad, en un contexto en el que su modelo de crecimiento se encuentra inmerso en un proceso de reequilibrio....

This paper proposes a theoretically-informed and empirically-grounded cognitive approach to analyse how financial elites from China, the Gulf Cooperation Council states and Brazil interpret the euro vs. dollar debate. At the theoretical level, we argue that the debate should be reframed in order...

This article proposes a cognitive and empirical approach, based on in-depth semi-structured elite interviews, to analyse the extent to which the dollar is becoming a negotiated international currency in the perception of financial elites in China, Brazil and the countries of the Gulf Cooperation...

Tension is growing between the interests of part of the middle classes that are in decline in the mature economies and the rising ones in emerging markets. The aim of the public policies proposed in this paper is to impede such a clash by avoiding protectionism and de-globalisation, fostering...