"Blockcopolymers/Polyelectrolytes/Biodegradation".

A description of the computer modelling of electrochemical processes in order to improve their speed and efficiency. The text introduces the fundamental transport equations in dilute solutions and surveys the most important solution techniques, such as FEM, FDM and BEM.

Dieses Buch enth lt eine Darstellung des Finanzmarktansatzes, dem neuesten Ansatz zur Bestimmung flexibler Wechselkurse im Kontext internationaler Bewegungen von Finanzkapital. Es soll dem Leser eine konsistente theoretische Sicht der Simultaneit t von kurz- und langfristigen Wechselkursschwankungen und internationalen Kapitalbewegungen vermitteln. Hierzu wird die einschl gige Literatur kritisch aufgearbeitet und durch drei eigene Modellversionen eines umfassenden Grundmodells erg nzt. In den neuen Modellen werden bislang vorliegende Inkonsistenzen zwischen der verbalen und der formalen...

A real imports of capital and intermediate goods declined sharply for highlyindebted countries in the 1980s, these economies were faced with the need tosubstitute previously imported factors of production with domestic capital and labor. The study empirically analyzes the degree of import dependence of twelve developing countries. Estimates of the short-run elasticity of substitution characterize both imported capital and intermediate goods to behave like complements in the production process in the developing countries. Long-run substitution elasticites differ considerably among the group of...

Economic integration is the most noteworthy development in international economic policy at the end of this century. Enthusiasm for the European Union has been infectuous. Yet, there are many aspects for the EU that still remain obscure and which warrant further careful scrutiny. The subject of this book is the examination of the inherent economic and political inefficiencies in the transition process of Central and East European countries which are apt to slow down its pace, divert it from its proper course and, in some cases, even endanger its sustainability. The authors of the...

New Institutional Arrangements for the World Economy Hans-Jiirgen Vosgerau, Konstanz I. The Problem During the first days of July 1987 the newly established Sonderforschungs bereich 178 "Internationalisierung der Wirtschaft" held its first symposium in Konstanz/Bodensee. "New Institutional Arrangements for the World Economy" were discussed by a group of economists and lawyers working in the fields of interna tional trade, international monetary economics, international finance, international public choice, and international economic law. Cooperation between these areas of research is an...

1. 1. Oil price fluctuations and their impact on economic performance Drastic oil price fluctuations have been a major characteristic of the world petroleum market since the beginning of the seventies. The oil crises of 1973n4 and 1979/80 were followed by a dramatic drop of the oil price during the first two quarters of 1986. Starting from a level less than 2 $ per barrel in 1972, the spot market price of Arabian Light crude oil increased to some 35 $ in 1980, then slowly decreased, and finally fell to 13 $ in 1986 (annual averages). If monthly data are considered, the peaks of the oil price...

Helmut Schneider 1. The Formulation of the Research Programme 1. In the late sixties the acceleration of US inflation revived the discussion of the fifties about the superiority of flexible exchange rates: The US balance of payments deteriorated since 1965, the dollar shortage after World War II changed to a dollar surplus. The import of US inflation by their main trading partners intensified political pressures so that at the beginning of the seventies most leading countries decided, contrary to the rules of the Bretton Woods agreement, to stop their intervention in the market for foreign...

New theories of international trade suggest that pro- tectionism can make sense. This finding depends on the in- troduction of market power and increasing returns to scale into the international trade theory. The enormous political implications of this hypothesis have started a large interest in applied or empirical investigations of this issue. However, econometric work in international trade is comparatively scarce, especially if it comes to testing with individual data. Therefore, this volume is considered to be a contribution to fill that gap. The volume consists of three parts: First,...

This book deals with a broad range of problems in international economics. The book analyses economic problems in stabilisation policy, exchange rate regimes and international trade policy and taxation. It contains a comprehensive analysis of important problems in international economics in the 1980s and 1990s. The first part of the book deals with anti-inflation policies in open economies, where exchange rate regimes play a crucial role. The monetary analysis is combined in the second part with a discussion on recent advances in real trade theory and its applications. The volume is a result...