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Competitive Economic Performance: USA versus EU

Aiginger, Karl; Landesmann, Michael - 2002

processes of innovation and diffusion of a general purpose technology (GPT) take place. There is also an analysis of the …

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Innovation and Technology Transfer across Countries

Foster-McGregor, Neil - 2012

Innovation is considered to be an important determinant of performance at the firm, industry and country level. This … domestic innovation is of little importance for most countries. Such countries can benefit from innovation conducted elsewhere … however, if knowledge and technology is diffused across borders. In this paper we survey existing literature on innovation and …

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Manufacturing FDI in New EU Member States - Foreign Penetration and Location Shifts between 1998 and 2002

Hunya, Gabor - 2004

Since the late 1990s investors have been faced with new challenges due to changing locational characteristics in the Central European transition countries. Export demand became the main driving force of manufacturing FDI as opposed to local-market penetration in earlier years. In addition,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100047

International Trade and Economic Diversification: Patterns and Policies in the Transition Economies

Landesmann, Michael - 2008

This report counter-poses the patterns of trade specialization and trade diversification of two groups of economies the new member states of the European Union, NMS, and the follower countries of the Soviet Union, the NIS (Newly Independent States). It is shown that the NIS export structures are...

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Foreign Direct Investments: A Comparison of EAEU, DCFTA and Selected EU-CEE Countries

Havlik, Peter; Hunya, Gabor; Zaytsev, Yury - 2018

Foreign direct investment (FDI) has been the main driver of restructuring and modernisation in Central and Eastern Europe. This paper looks into FDI stocks and flows in a dynamic and cross-country perspective, comparing the key EAEU countries (Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia) as well as DCFTA...

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Structural Change in the Transition Economies, 1989 to 1999

Landesmann, Michael - 2000

This report gives an overview of patterns of structural change in Central and Eastern European economies over the decade 1989-1999. The analysis in this paper is restricted to a sub-sample of transition economies, namely the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs) - with the exception of...

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Competitiveness of CEE Industries: Evidence From Foreign Trade Specialization and Quality Indicators

Havlik, Peter; Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - 2001

This paper analyses the competitiveness of the manufacturing industry in the CEE candidate countries (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia) with special emphasis on trade with the European Union during the second half of the...

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Patterns of Catching-Up in Candidate Countries' Manufacturing Industry

Havlik, Peter - 2001

This paper analyses the structural changes that have taken place in CEE candidate countries' manufacturing industry during the last decade. In the more advanced candidate countries for EU membership, industry has been able to recover at least part of its previous position thanks to active...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100015

The CEECs in the Enlarged Europe: Convergence Patterns, Specialization and Labour Market Implications

Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - 2002

This paper discusses the evolution of competitiveness, industrial and trade specialization of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs). It is shown that the paths taken by the different CEECs have been quite diverse and we attempt to show that a combination of a catching-up plus trade...

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The Consequences of WTO Accession for Belarus

Kurilionak, Kiryl; Medvedev, Vitaly; Vassilevsky, Stanislav - 2007

In this paper we consider the possible consequences that accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) bears for Belarus. Our approach is based on partial equilibrium. We have applied a method of locating specific 'sensitive' points in the economy and treating them as separate items specific...

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