EU Integration and its Implications for Asian Economies. What we Know and What Not (2005)
Rolf J. Langhammer, Rainer Schweickert
The process of EU integration has been a unique and unprecedented endeavour in both political and economic history to create domestic market-like conditions for a number of politically independent...
Federico Foders, Daniel Piazolo, Rainer Schweickert
This paper presents a new set of indicators concerning the status of economic reform in the candidate countries for the enlargement of the European Union which is scheduled for 2004. After an...
Jamuna Agarwal, Torsten Tewes, Hans Blomqvist, Rainer Schweickert, Ernst-August Nuppenau, Hartmut Wolf
Matthias Lücke, Rainer Schweickert, Heiko Körner, Thomas Ziesemer, Stefanie Bessin, Jan Winiecki, ...
Werner Sesselmeier, Wilfried Fuhrmann, Christian Scholz, Uwe Walz, Rainer Schweickert, Axel Börsch-Supan, ...
Richard Pomfret, Werner Sesselmeier, Erich Gundlach, Klaus-Dieter Schmidt, Jens Lorz, Rolf Langhammer, ...
Nunnenkamp, Peter, Schweickert, Rainer, Wiebelt, Manfred
This paper provides a computable general equilibrium analysis of the medium to long-run impact of FDI inflows on poverty and income distribution in Bolivia. The simulation results suggest that FDI...
The paper takes into account both the concerns of the EU, arguing that convergence is incomplete, and the demands from accession countries, claiming that monetary integration is optimal. Indicators...
Macroeconomic Constraints on Economic Development and Poverty Reduction: The Case of Bolivia
BoliviaÂ’s macroeconomic performance in the period 1994 to 1998 is analyzed and compared with the performance in former periods and the performance of other developing countries (grouped according...
Managing Future Oil Revenues in Ghana - An Assessment of Alternative Allocation Options
Clemens Breisinger, Xinshen Diao, Rainer Schweickert, Manfred Wiebelt
Contemporary policy debates on the macroeconomics of resource booms often concentrate on the short-run Dutch disease effects of public expenditure ignoring the possible long-term effects of...
Sectoral R&D Intensity and Exchange Rate Volatility: A Panel Study for OECD Countries
Prashanth Mahagaonkar, Rainer Schweickert, Aditya S. Chavali
A recent literature has pointed at potential negative effects of exchange rate volatility on innovation. In this paper, we propose that there may be a direct effect as well as an indirect effect via...
Sectoral R&D intensity and Exchange Rate Volatility: A Panel Study on Economies of the OECD
Prashanth Mahagaonkar, Rainer Schweickert, Aditya S. Chavali
A recent literature has pointed at potential negative effects of exchange rate volatility on innovation. In this paper, we propose that there may be a direct effect as well as an indirect effect via...
Prospective NATO or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries
Ansgar Belke, Ingo Bordon, Inna Melnykovska, Rainer Schweickert
This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition...
Anja Franke, Andrea Gawrich, Inna Melnykovska, Rainer Schweickert
Among ENP countries, Azerbaijan is outstanding because it leans on its resource base and sees the EU at the receiving end of bilateral relations. At the other extreme, Ukraine depends on EU...
Managing future oil revenues in Ghana: An assessment of alternative allocation options
Breisinger, Clemens, Diao, Xinshen, Schweickert, Rainer, Wiebelt, Manfred
"Contemporary policy debates on the macroeconomics of resource booms often concentrate on the short-run Dutch disease effects of public expenditure, ignoring the possible long-term effects of...
Ansgar Belke, Ingo Bordon, Inna Melnykovska, Rainer Schweickert
EU,NATO, transition economies, institutional change,governance
Prospective Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries
Ansgar Belke, Ingo Bordon, Inna Melnykovska, Rainer Schweickert
This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition...
Prospective NATO or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries
Belke, Ansgar, Bordon, Ingo, Melnykovska, Inna, Schweickert, Rainer
This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition...