infonet-economy

The 1990s saw a huge upsurge in flows of private capital from industrial to developing countries. At the beginning of the decade, private and official flows were about the same, but only five years later private flows dwarfed official flows. Not since the late 19th century have international capital flows assumed such prominence. But there are marked differences between the movement…

not available in German Frühere Version: Kraus, F., P. Puhani, V. Steiner (1998), Do Public Works Programmes Work? Some Unpleasant Results from the East German Experience, ZEW Discussion Paper 98-07, Mannheim We analyze the effectiveness of public works programs (PWP, Arbeitsbeschaffungsmassnahmen) in east Germany as measured by their effects on individual future re-employment…

Welcome to the autumn/winter issue 2000 of the JMM - The International Journal on Media Management. Edited by the Institute for Media and Communications Management of the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, the journal is dedicated to investigating the development and management of new media and innovations in worldwide communications. You are warmly invited to visit our website (…

Two neural network approaches, Kohonen's Self-Organizing (Feature) Map (SOM) and the Topology Representing Network (TRN) of Martinetz and Schulten are employed in the context of competitive market structuring and segmentation analysis. In an empirical study using brands preferences derived from household panel data, we compare the SOM and TRN approach to MULTICLUS, a parametric…

We argue that the national state remains the main frame of reference in the field of immigration and ethnic relations. The cultural-historical imprint of the pattern of state formation has produced distinct regimes for the incorporation of migrants which largely explain variations in government policies, public debates, and collective mobilizations concerning this policy area. we…

This present paper analyzes an energy tax reform that exempts the energy-intensive export sector from paying the energy tax and uses the additional revenue to cut existing taxes in all sectors. To that end, a two sector two factor model of an open economy that is small on the import side but not on the export side is applied. Within this model, an equivalence between a tax reform…