This paper analyses regional growth in Eastern Europe in the second half of the 1990s, when regional disparities sharply increased. We aim to identify the factors behind growth and investigate in particular the role of (foreign) investment, education and innovation as well as geographical...

This paper analyses regional growth in Eastern Europe in the second half of the 1990s, when regional disparities sharply increased. We aim to identify the factors behind growth and investigate in particular the role of (foreign) investment, education and innovation as well as geographical...

This paper analyses regional growth in Eastern Europe in the second half of the 1990s, when regional disparities sharply increased. We aim to identify the factors behind growth and investigate in particular the role of (foreign) investment, education and innovation as well as geographical...

Die vorliegende Dissertation beinhaltet drei getrennte Aufsätze über ausländische Direktinvestitionen, in drei Kapiteln. Im ersten Kapitel befindet sich ein theoretischer Aufsatz über den Wettbewerb für ausländische Direktinvestitionen zwischen Ländern mit unterschiedlichem...

What is the impact of financial sector segments at different stages of development? We apply a production function approach to investigate the impact of the credit, bond and stock segments in nine EU-accession countries over early years of transition (1996-2000) and compare these to mature...

Over the last decade the role of financial sector development in economic growth has become a major topic in empirical research. Most cross-section-oriented studies (for example Rousseau and Wachtel, 2000; Levine et al., 2000; Singh et al. 2000; Demirguec-Kunt and Levine, 1999) base their analyses on broad...