Product Description: Information & communication technology (ICT) and the automotive sector are two of the most important industries in the EU and the US. The EU’s eastern expansion and economic globalization have reinforced competition on the one hand; on the other hand the importance of outsourcing and off-shoring has increased...read more

Product Description: Nach der Bankenkrise stehen Deutschland und die Europäische Union vor einer Reihe wirtschaftlicher Herausforderungen. Die Autoren liefern in ihren Beiträgen eine einzigartige Bestandsaufnahme der deutschen und europäischen Wirtschaftspolitik und analysieren die Reformoptionen für die Sozial-, Währungs- und Umweltpolitik...read more

Product Description: After a decade of sharp economic decline, Russia switched to an impressive period of economic growth. Yet the economic record is still mixed, and many key problems remain unresolved, both in the economic sphere and the political system...read more

Broadening and deepening of economic and political integration are hallmarks of the EU and ASEAN. This book critically analyses the economic and institutional changes in both Europe and Asia. There is considerable potential for instability, but one also finds regional growth opportunities. Comparative policy analysis and evaluation of various cooperation strategies are presented. Emphasis is on banking, financial market dynamics, ICT, and macroeconomic policies as well as trade, energy, and environmental issues. Legal aspects are combined with historical and economic perspectives. Due emphasis also is on the impact of China and the role of international organisations. The comparative analysis of EU and ASEAN integration suggests important policy choices, including those at the multilateral level.

Product Description: Modern macroeconomics suffers from an unclear link between short-term Keynesian analysis and long-term growth modelling. This book presents a new link between monetary analysis and growth modelling in open economies. Structural change, innovations and growth are considered from a new perspective...read more

Product Description: This book offers examples of how experience and innovation can be combined to create something new, with a particular emphasis on practical implementation, such as generating successful solutions by merging Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and managerial concepts.

Product Description: This book is about changes in the competitiveness and the restructuring of manufacturing industries in the three leading transition economies of Central Europe (Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic), their integration into the European Union, and their catching up with the old member states in the pre-accession period...read more

Presents analyses of historical developments and economic challenges for the EU. This book points out the economic shifts between Europe, Asia and the US. It discusses the challenges of information and communication technologies by means of various country analyses.

Product Description: This book analyzes the dynamics and impacts of software development and discusses new institutional and economic changes in the context of digital market economies. Regulatory approaches in OECD countries are compared and country studies evaluated with respect to innovation and welfare aspects...read more

Product Description: The focus of this book is on economic and institutional modernization in the new Russia and Eastern Europe. Systemic transformation and economic catching-up process raise new theoretical and empirical issues as well as policy topics...read more

Product Description: Structural change, economic growth and adequate exchange rate adjustment are key challenges in the context of EU eastern enlargement as are consistent macroeconomic policies. The authors focus on sectoral adjustment across industries in catching-up countries and explain changes in the composition of output – this includes new aspects of the Chenery model...read more

Product Description: After the 1998 Russian economic crisis, there are new opportunities for sustained growth in many countries of the former Soviet Union. Against this backdrop, the authors of this book analyze the dynamics of macroeconomic and structural developments in Eastern Europe and Russia, with special attention paid to problems of international and national integration, "Dutch disease" and natural resource dependency, and distortions in institutional reforms...read more

Product Description: Wirtschaftspolitik als Gestaltung der nationalen bzw. internationalen Wirtschaftsordnung und als Auseinandersetzung mit den Problemen offener Volkswirtschaften steht im Mittelpunkt dieses Buches. Internationale Organisationen, neuere theoretische Ansätze, wirtschaftspolitische Entscheidungsprozesse und Aspekte der neuen politischen Ökonomie werden behandelt...read more

Product Description: In dieser Untersuchung geht es um die ökonomische und technologische Dynamik der Informations- und Kommunikationswirtschaft in Deutschland, Westeuropa und den USA. Dabei werden neben den mittelfristigen Entwicklungen auf digitalen Märkten auch langfristige Trends in der Internetwirtschaft analysiert...read more

Product Description: Russia and many other transition countries are now facing the challenges of opening up, restructuring, and modernizing their economies, which requires addressing numerous institutional weaknesses and supply-side distortions. From a regional perspective, drawing on the experience of other reforming countries, the papers examine these issues...read more

Product Description: These continue to be difficult times for the labor markets of the industrialized nations. Shifts in labor demand, deregulatory impulses, and the ongoing process of globalization have each impacted the labor markets of the United States and Europe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The dynamics of the digital economy in the US, Europe and Japan are rather different. Some EU countries come close to the USA as the leading OECD country in the new economy, but Japan faces particular problems in catching-up digitally...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Die Unterschiedlichkeit der Wachstumsraten in der Eurozone und insbesondere die Wachstumsschwäche Deutschlands im Vergleich zu der starken Wachstumsbeschleunigung in den USA in den 90er Jahren sind Anlass für die fundierte Untersuchung von Wirtschafts- und Wachstumstrends in diesem Band...read more

Product Description: There are many issues relating to the new economy in Europe and the USA that are unexplored. Here, the authors present innovative theoretical and empirical analysis on Internet dynamics, productivity growth and organizational changes in selected OECD countries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Deregulation, privatization and internationalization of the telecommunications industry has brought about enormous changes within both the European and world economy. The dynamics of the Internet and the recent wave of innovations in the telecommunications and computer industry have given rise to new opportunities for entrepreneurship, employment and growth...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Deregulation, privatization and internationalization of the telecommunications industry has brought about enormous changes within both the European and world economy. The dynamics of the Internet and the recent wave of innovations in the telecommunications and computer industry have given rise to new opportunities for entrepreneurship, employment and growth...read more

Product Description: Internationalization of the economy accelerated at the turn of the century. Growing national, regional, and global environmental problems associated with globalization present new challenges for policy-makers and international cooperation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Global warming is a serious threat to the stability of world climate and to economic prosperity in some regions. The book offers a theoretical analysis which focuses on double dividend issues. Moreover, the ecological tax reform in Germany and the options of modern energy policy are described and evaluated...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)