In vier ThemenblAcken geben die BeitrAge A bis Z einen Einblick in Stand, Entwicklung und Perspektiven der systemvergleichenden Innovationsanalyse. Es wird ein umfassender Einstieg geboten in systemindifferente und -spezifische Aspekte der Innovationsdynamik. Ebenso prAsentiert der Band fA1/4r Wissenschaft, Wirtschaftspraxis und Wirtschaftspolitik neuere Entwicklungen aus Ost und West: Theoretische Aspekte, empirische Befunde und lAnderorientierte EinzelbeitrAge zur Innovationspolitk (USA, BRD, Japan, Frankreich, Spanien, GroAbritannien, Polen, DDR, UdSSR).

The Russian transformation crisis is analyzed and put into the context of national policy failures and international shocks. The study also has a focus on structural change and foreign direct investment - including an econometric perspective. Basic problems of economic opening-up, macroeconomic policy and aspects of political economy are also discussed. The role of institutional reforms, membership in international organizations and supply-side policies are emphasized.

The creation of the European Central Bank and the Euro have brought new challenges to EU integration and economic policy. This book looks into issues of monetary and factor market policies. The analysis also presents new theoretical and empirical research on the - transitory - decline of the Euro. Issues of exchange rate policy and international economic relations also are addressed.

Erstmals wird in einer parallelen okonomischen und juristischen Analyse der Wettbewerb auf den liberalisierten Telekommunikationsmarkten in Deutschland untersucht. Basierend auf einer expliziten Analyse der Marktphasen bzw. der Wettbewerbsdynamik nach Marktoffnung zeigen die Autoren, dass in Deutschland kritische Probleme der Marktbeherrschung bestehen. Ein sich selbst tragender, nachhaltiger Wettbewerb erscheint ohne adaquate Regulierungspolitik als unwahrscheinlich. Rationale Regulierungspolitik selbst muss bei Marktabgrenzung und Marktbeherrschung starker als bisher die angebots- und...

Die Studie analysiert den Gesundheitssektor aus regionaler Sicht und entwickelt eine Vergleichsperspektive fur Deutschland bzw. Osterreich. Cluster bzw. regionale Innovationseffekte werden thematisiert. Als Analyseinstrument wird u. a. die Soziale Netzwerkanalyse genutzt. Zudem wird das Angebot von Risikokapital fur diesen innovativen Sektor in den Regionen naher betrachtet. Wichtige Analyseaspekte betreffen Wissensubertragung, Innovationsdynamik, die Einbettung der forschenden Institutionen in Innovationssysteme und die Verfugbarkeit von Venture Capital bzw. der Innovationsfinanzierung. Fur...

After a decade of Eurosclerosis the EC is moving with renewed economic growth and increasing multinational investment toward a single European market under the heading "Project 1992." The creation of a single EC market creates dynamic adjustment needs and opens up new opportunities for international business in a period of intensified global competition and dramatic politico-economic changes. Since the mid-1980s Eastern Europe is undergoing a radical shift towards market-based economic systems -a difficult and fragile development so far which is further complicated by economic and political...

EU monetary integration was reinforced in the 1980s when macroeconomic convergence and a dominant role of the German Bundesbank created the basis for relatively stable exchange rates and increasing EU trade volumes. The analysis here focuses on the EMS crisis of 1992/93, the topic of optimum currency areas and the problem of fiscal policies and regional stabilization in Europe, the US and Canada. This book gives an assessment of the EMS developments and shows how financial market liberalization as well as the EU single market project affect the process of economic and monetary union. The role...

Paul J. J. Welfens The editor is pleased to present a second edition of Economic Aspects of German Unification which includes new chapters and several postscripts. Almost five years after unification output in the ex-GDR is back to its 1989 level. Due to a massive intra-German resource transfer consumption per capita in eastern Germany has not fallen as much as output and employment which reduced by one-fifth within three years. Given high West German transfers which represented about 5% of West German GDP and more than 50% of East German GDP the fall of industrial output could have been much...

explicit presentation of some of those stylized facts in the form of a brief, chronologically structured narrative. In keeping with the broad scope of this volume we begin by going back at least two hundred years, to the growth of an integrated national capital market in England in the 18th century (see Neal Chapter). This starting point has the advantage of calling attention to a number of important points. First, the form of integration by which a central market (London) for a standardized good (government bonds or consols) came to serve as linkage between two or more hitherto separate...