Recently added articles from Aussenwirtschaft:
Chris Noonan (2008): The Emerging Principles of International Competition Law
Dec 01, 2008; ... Chris Noonan (2008): The Emerging Principles of International Competition Law Oxford University Press, Oxford, 704 pages ISBN 978-0-19-920752-7, £80.00 (hardback) Few areas of law are as interwoven with economic and political developments as international competition law. Today, firms ...
Ross Buckley, Vai Io Lo, Laurence Boulle (2008): Challenges to Multilateral Trade: The Impact of Bilateral, Preferential and Regional Trade Agreements
Dec 01, 2008; ... Ross Buckley, Vai Io Lo, Laurence Boulle (2008): Challenges to Multilateral Trade: The Impact of Bilateral, Preferential and Regional Trade Agreements Kluwer Law International, The Netherlands, 288 pages ISBN/ISSN: 9041127119, ISBN13: 9789041 127112, euro140.00 (hardback) The world trade ...
Inward FDI, Value Added and Employment in US States: A Panel Cointegration Approach
Dec 01, 2008; ... This study investigates the long-run relationships between inward FDI and economic outcomes in terms of value added and employment at the level of the US states. JOHANSEN'S (1988) co-integration technique and TODA and YAMAMOTO'S (1995) Granger causality tests are applied to data for the period ...
The Significance of Switzerland's Enormous Current Account Surplus
Dec 01, 2008; ... Switzerland has had a long standing surplus on its current account. But over the past 15 years that surplus has surged to levels unmatched by nearly any other OECD country at any point. This paper looks at the surplus from a balance of payments vantage point as well as from the optic of the ...
Prospects for Skills-based Export Growth in a Labor-abundant, Resource-rich Developing Economy
Dec 01, 2008; ... In an integrated global economy, specialisation in trade is an increasingly prominent strategy. A labor-abundant, resource-rich economy like Indonesia faces stiff competition in labor-intensive manufactures; meanwhile, rapid growth in demand for resources from China and India exposes it to the ...
Competition Effects and Terms of Trade Effects of Exchange Rates and International Prices: Evidence for Germany
Dec 01, 2008; ... The effects of the latest period of Euro appreciation from 2006 to 2007 on the German economy, especially on exports, are cushioned, in the short run, by the regional pattern of foreign buyers, invoicing practices and hedging activities, enterprises' favorable cost development and their ...
The Benefits of Trade Liberalisation and WTO Members' Negotiating Positions: Are Imports Really Bad?
Jun 01, 2008; ... The traditional notion among trade economists is that governments perceive imports to be detrimental and accept them only in exchange for foreign market access. In contrast, the results of a survey of the national missions at the WTO presented in this article indicate that governments see ...
Parallelimporte patentgeschützter Güter: Eine Option für die Schweiz?
Jun 01, 2008; ... Wäre eine Zulassung von Parallelimporten patentgeschützter Güter und insbesondere von Arzneimitteln zumindest aus den Mitgliedsländern der Europäischen Union im langfristigen Interesse der Schweiz? Die Arbeit versucht, darauf eine Antwort zu geben. Dabei ist zu berücksichtigen, dass es sich beim ...
Austrian FDI in Central-Eastern Europe and Employment in the Home Market
Jun 01, 2008; ... This paper investigates the impact of Austrian foreign direct investment on domestic employment in five new EU member states from Central and Eastern Europe (NMS5). We estimate both a static and a dynamic labour demand model using sector data for the period 1993-2004 where domestic employment ...
The Best System Money Can Buy: Corruption in the European Union
Jun 01, 2008; ... Carolyn M. Warner (2007): The Best System Money Can Buy: Corruption in the European Union Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 272 pages (hardcover) ISBN 978-0-8014-4555-2; US$ 29.95 One would think that marriages and their subsequent dissolution are in today's Europe no longer a ...
The Labour Market Effects of Outsourcing Parts and Components: A Simple Model with Cournot Competition
Jun 01, 2008; ... The paper analyses a partial equilibrium outsourcing model with Cournot competition in intermediate good production. Final production is located in Western Europe, whereas the intermediate good can be manufactured by a Western (outsourcing) or Eastern European supplier (offshore outsourcing) ....
The Impact of the WTO - The Environment, Public Health and Sovereignty
Jun 01, 2008; ... Trish Kelly (2007): The Impact of the WTO - The Environment, Public Health and Sovereignty Verlag Edwar Elgar, Cheltenham, Northhamton, 220 Seiten ISBN 978-1847200815; EUR 94,10 Um die Welthandelsorganisation (WTO) ist es still geworden. Fast unheimlich still. Hier und da eine kleine ...
Biofuels and WTO Disciplines
Mar 01, 2008; ... Given the sharp rise in crude oil prices and growing awareness of climate change, the potential of biofuels, particularly of bioethanol, has become an ubiquitous topic of public debate and has induced ambitious policy initiatives. The latter are mostly paired with protectionist measures as the ...
Unit Labour Costs, the Real Exchange Rate and Swiss Competitiveness
Mar 01, 2008; ... Real exchange rates are a major short-run determinant of any country's capacity to compete. In this paper, we compute a unit-labour-costs-based real exchange rate for Switzerland for the period 1980:1-2006:4. We use manufacturing sector data on wages and labour productivity in Switzerland and ...
Indien, Brasilien und Südafrika in der Doha-Runde: Handelspolitische Interessen und Entscheidungsstrukturen
Mar 01, 2008; ... Indien, Brasilien und Südafrika gehören zu den hartnäckigsten Blockadeakteuren in der aktuellen Verhandlungsrunde der WTO. Zur Erklärung dieser Haltung wird unter anderem auf die mangelnde Kompromissbereitschaft der zentralen Akteure EU und USA, gerade beim Thema Agrarhandel, sowie auf ...
Russia Moves into the Global Economy
Mar 01, 2008; ... Letiche, John M. Russia Moves into the Global Economy Routledge Verlag, London und New York 2007, 101 Seiten, 120 US$ Kaum ein Land hat in jüngster Zeit eine derart bewegte Wirtschaftsgeschichte geschrieben wie Russland. Der Wert des Rubels fiel in den frühen 1990er Jahren von über 5 US$ ...
Globalisation and Labour Rights: The Conflict between Core Labour Rights and International Economic Law
Mar 01, 2008; ... Kaufmann, Christine (2007) Globalisation and Labour Rights: The Conflict between Core Labour Rights and International Economic Law Hart Publishing, Oxford and Portland, Oregon, ISBN 9781841135991, £50.00 " ... and it was arranged that Oliver should go to him that evening 'upon liking' - a ...
Zollunion+ - Alternative zum EU-Beitritt
Dec 01, 2007; ... MINSCH, RUI DI und PETER MOSER (2006): Zollunion+ - Alternative zum EU-Beitritt Verlag Rüegger, Zürich / Chur 152 Seiten, br., ISBN 3-7253-0857-8 / 978-3-7253-0857-6, CHF 38,00 / EUR 24,30 (D) Seit der Diskussion um den EWR-Beitritt der Schweiz in den frühen 90er Jahren gehört die ...
Indian Exports at Crossroads: Why the European Community is Subjecting Indian Goods to Countervailing Duties
Dec 01, 2007; ... The European Community represents one of the primary destinations for Indian goods accounting for one fifth of Indian exports. Indian goods have been at the receiving end of a significant majority of anti subsidy investigations initiated by the European Commission. Such goods have been alleged ...
What Competition Has Done For Europe*
Dec 01, 2007; ... NICOLAS SARKOZY, President of France, managed to erase "free and undistorted competition" from the proposed new EU Treaty as a main aim of the European Union. Afterwards, he asked rhetorically what competition has done for Europe. This article is an attempt to reply to that very important ...