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  • 1
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    What Matters to African Firms? : The Relevance of Perceptions Data (2008)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    b3kat_BV049074176
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (36 Seiten))
    Edition: Online-Ausg
    Content: Can perceptions data help us understand investment climate constraints facing the private sector? Or do firms simply complain about everything? In this paper, the authors provide a picture of how firms' views on constraints differ across countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys database, they find that reported constraints reflect country characteristics and vary systematically by level of income-the most elemental constraints to doing business (power, access to finance, ability to plan ahead) appear to be most binding at low levels of income. As countries develop and these elemental constraints are relaxed, governance-related constraints become more problematic. As countries move further up the income scale and the state becomes more capable, labor regulation is perceived to be more of a problem-business is just one among several important constituencies.
    Content: The authors also consider whether firm-level characteristics-such as size, ownership, exporter status, and firms' own experience-affect firms' views on the severity of constraints. They find that, net of country and sector fixed effects and firm characteristics, firms' views do reflect their experience as evidenced by responses to other questions in surveys. The results suggest that there are both country-level and firm-level variations in the investment climate. Turning to the concept of "binding constraints," the Enterprise Surveys do not generally suggest one single binding constraint facing firms in difficult business climates. However, there do appear to be groups of constraints that matter more at different income levels, with a few elemental constraints being especially important at low levels and a few regulatory constraints at high levels, but a difficult range of governance-related constraints at intermediate levels.
    Content: Adjusting to a constraint does not mean that firms then do not recognize it-for example, generator-owning firms are not distinguishable from other firms when ranking electricity as a constraint. Overall, firms do appear to discriminate between constraints in a reasonable way. Their views can provide a useful first step in the business-government consultative process and help in prioritizing more specific behavioral analysis and policy reforms
    Additional Edition: Gelb, Alan What Matters to African Firms?
    Language: English
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  • 2
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    Coordination polymers : Design, analysis and application (2008)
    Cambridge : Royal Society of Chemistry
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    UID:
    b3kat_BV037195476
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (440 p.) , 429 b&w, ill
    ISBN: 1847558860 , 9781847558862
    Note: The first book to provide a broad overview of all the major facets of coordination polymer research in one place, The field of coordination polymer research has undergone rapid expansion in recent years. No longer are these materials the vaguely defined 'insoluble material' at the bottom of your vessel that spell death for your reaction. They have gone from 'polymeric rubbish' to 'materials of the future'. Great leaps in the deliberate design of coordination polymers were made in the 1990s. These were allied with similar advances in related areas such as organic crystal engineering, metallosupramolecular chemistry and X-ray diffraction. No longer did we assemble things atom by atom. Whole molecules were used as building blocks and new materials were made. This is the first book to provide a broad overview of all the major facets of coordination polymer research in one place. It combines chapters on nets and interpenetration with wide-ranging surveys of transition metal and lanthanoid coordination polymers and their properties. The aim is to provide a flavour of each aspect whilst introducing the important concepts and developments using carefully selected examples. After an introduction, the text is split into three sections: -Design (nets, interpenetration, malleability) -Analysis (transition metal coordination polymers, lanthanoid coordination polymers, organometallic networks, organic-inorganic hybrids) -Application (magnetic properties, porosity, acentric and chiral networks, reactive coordination polymers, other properties). Written in the style of a tutorial review, the book is suitable for both senior specialists and new postgraduate students taking their first steps in the field. It also provides an authoritative and detailed reference source
    Language: English
    Subjects: Chemistry/Pharmacy , Physics
    RVK:
    UV 3300
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    VE 7800
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    VK 8000
    Keywords: Polymerkomplexe ; Supramolekulare Struktur ; Electronic books
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  • 3
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    Corporate governance and development : reform, financial systems and legal frameworks (2009)
    Cheltenham ; Northampton, Mass : Edward Elgar
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    b3kat_BV048635364
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 210 Seiten) , ill
    ISBN: 9781848449022
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Content: 1. Corporate governance and development : reform, financial systems and legal framework - an overview / Thankom Gopinath Arun and John Turner -- ch. 2. Gains and losses of adopting new standards of corporate governance : a CGE analysis of Argentina / Omar O. Chisari and Gustavo Ferro -- ch. 3. The Anglo-American model of corporate governance in sub-Saharan Africa : explanatory and normative dimensions / Royston Gustavson, Nicholas Ndegwa Kimani and Donald Atieno Ouma -- ch. 4. Corporate governance and the transformation of the electricity sector in Britain and Spain : the interaction between national institutions and regulatory choices / Michel Goyer and Rocío Valdivielso del Real -- ch. 5. The relationship between debt structure and firm performance in India / Sumit K. Majumdar and Kunal Sen -- ch. 6. The corporate governance role of capital markets : a Bangladesh perspective / Faizul Haque -- ch. 7. Corporate governance of banks in developing economies : concepts and issues / Thankom Gopinath Arun and John Turner -- ch. 8. Improving corporate governance of banks : issues and experience from Bangladesh / M. Masrur Reaz -- ch. 9. Corporate governance regulation and board decision making during takeovers / Blanaid Clarke -- ch. 10. Shareholder protection : a leximetric approach. / Priya P. Lele and Mathias M. Siems -- ch. 11. Legal aspects of UK bank corporate governance / Dalvinder Singh
    Content: This book analyses the complex relationship between corporate governance and economic development by focusing on the reform of corporate governance, the role of the legal system, and the interconnections with the financial system
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 1848444206
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781848444201
    Language: English
    Subjects: Economics
    RVK:
    QP 341
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung
    DOI: 10.4337/9781848449022
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  • 4
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    Philosophy of anthropology and sociology (2007)
    Amsterdam : Elsevier
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    UID:
    gbv_1345342640
    Format: Online Ressource (xv, 883 p.) , graph. Darst.
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Amsterdam Elsevier Science & Technology Online-Ressource ScienceDirect
    ISBN: 9780444515421 , 0444515429 , 9780080466644 , 0080466648
    Series Statement: Handbook of the philosophy of science [15]
    Content: General Preface (Dov Gabbay, Paul Thagard and John Woods) -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- I. Sociology and Quanitification -- Defining a Discipline: Sociology and its Philosophical Problems, from Its Classics to 1945 -- (Stephen Turner) -- Measurement (Joel Michell) -- The Intersection of Philosophy and Theory Construction: The Problem of the Origin of Elements in a Theory (Jerald Hage) -- Causal Models in the Social Sciences (James Woodward) -- II Individualism and Holism -- Functional Explanation and Evolutionary Social Science (Harold Kinaid) -- Evolutionary Explanations (Valerie Haines) -- Holism and Supervenience (Julie Zahle) -- Levels of the Social (Daniel Little) -- Rational Choice (Alessandro Pizzorno) -- III. Anthropology, Culture and Interpretation -- Ethnography and Culture (Mark Risjord) -- Categories and Classification in the Social Sciences (Warren Schmaus) -- Hermeneutic and Phenomenological Approaches (William Outhwaite) -- The Origins of Ethnomethodology (Michael Lynch) -- Philosophy of Archaeology: Philosophy in Archaeology (Alison Wylie) -- IV. Rationality and Normativity -- Relativism and Historicism (Ian Jarvie) -- The Problem of Apparently Irrational Beliefs (Steven Lukes) -- Language and Translation (David Henderson) -- Practice Theory (Joe Rouse) -- Naturalism without Fears (Paul Roth) -- V. Critical Approaches -- We, Heirs of Enlightenment: Critical Theory, Democracy and Social Science (James Bohman) -- Race in the Social Sciences (Michael Root) -- Feminist Anthropology and Sociology: Issues for Social Science (Sharon Crasnow) -- What's "New" in the Sociology of Knowledge? (John Zammito) -- Index
    Content: This volume concerns philosophical issues that arise from the practice of anthropology and sociology. The essays cover a wide range of issues, including traditional questions in the philosophy of social science as well as those specific to these disciplines. Authors attend to the historical development of the current debates and set the stage for future work. Comprehensive survey of philosophical issues in anthropology and sociology Historical discussion of important debates Applications to current research in anthropology and sociology
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0444515429
    Additional Edition: Druckausg. Handbook of the philosophy of science ; [15]: Philosophy of anthropology and sociology Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2007 ISBN 0444515429
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780444515421
    Language: English
    Subjects: Philosophy
    RVK:
    CB 3700
    RVK:
    CC 3400
    RVK:
    CC 6500
    Keywords: Anthropologie ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Wissenschaftsphilosophie ; Anthropologie ; Methode ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Wissenschaftsphilosophie ; Philosophische Anthropologie ; Soziologie ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-51542-1.X5000-4
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-51542-1.X5000-4
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    Author information: Turner, Stephen P. 1951-
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    What Drives Sovereign Risk Premiums? : An Analysis of Recent Evidence from the Euro Area (2009)
    Paris : OECD Publishing
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    gbv_730025675
    Format: 25 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: OECD Economics Department Working Papers no.718
    Content: This paper analyses recent large movements in the yield spread for sovereign bonds as between Germany and other euro area countries. While the general increase in risk aversion that has characterised the financial crisis is an important factor on its own, it is found that this has also magnified the importance of fiscal performance, in particular as measured by the ratio of debt service to tax receipts and expected fiscal deficits. Moreover, there is evidence to suggest that such effects are non-linear, so that incremental deteriorations in fiscal performance lead to ever larger increases in the spread. These findings imply that financial market reaction could become an increasingly important constraint on fiscal policy for some countries, a feature which was much less apparent in the years prior to the financial crisis when general risk aversion was abnormally low.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1787/222675756166
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    Quantifying the Effect of Financial Conditions on US Activity (2008)
    Paris : OECD Publishing
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    gbv_730006549
    Format: 20 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: OECD Economics Department Working Papers no.635
    Content: This paper constructs a broad measure of financial conditions for the United States which suggests that since the onset of the credit crisis there has been a marked tightening in financial conditions, despite a substantial easing of policy rates and a depreciation of the dollar. This measure of overall financial conditions includes interest rate spreads for riskier borrowers and a survey measure of the tightness of bank lending standards, which have been the main drivers behind the tightening in financial conditions. Indeed, recent data suggest that the trend deterioration in overall financial conditions has continued into the second half of 2008. The effect of the tightening in overall financial conditions already experienced may subtract 1¾ per cent from GDP over the next four to six quarters. Not only have financial conditions continued to worsen, but much of the impact on the real economy has yet to be felt.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1787/236860073636
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    Recent Trends and Structural Breaks in US and EU15 Labour Productivity Growth (2008)
    Paris : OECD Publishing
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    gbv_729991911
    Format: 30 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: OECD Economics Department Working Papers no.628
    Content: This paper examines shifts in labour productivity growth in the United States and in Europe between 1970 and 2007 based on econometric tests of structural breaks. Additionally, it makes use of time-series-based projected labour productivity growth up to 2009 in order to detect any recent break according to a central scenario as well as high and low scenarios, both derived from a 95% confidence interval. The identification of structural breaks in US labour productivity growth is far from obvious. A statistically significant break date is found in the late 1990s only if the upper scenario materialises in the future, which means that despite a clear pick-up in productivity growth in the second half of the 1990s, the size of the hump is not still large enough compared with past variation to make this change a statistically significant break. However, a significant breakpoint is detected in the mid-1990s for the difference in labour productivity growth between the United States and the EU15 based on observed data, which seems to be due to both the initial catch-up of Europe and the halt of the convergence process in the mid-1990s. Finally, European ICT-intensive countries are shown to have structurally performed better in terms of productivity growth than non-ICT-intensive countries.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1787/240826028657
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    Employment-Productivity Trade-off and Labour Composition (2009)
    Paris : OECD Publishing
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    gbv_730006646
    Format: 45 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: OECD Economics Department Working Papers no.698
    Content: This paper formalises the analysis of the employment-productivity trade-off by extending the framework developed by Gordon (1997) to account for labour heterogeneity. The extent of the trade-off is determined by the extent of the adjustment of capital to effective labour and by the changes in aggregate labour quality. The main experiment reported in the paper consists of assessing the labour utilisation and productivity impacts in OECD countries of aligning group-specific employment rates to the US levels. Matching the US employment performance defined in that sense would enable low-employment OECD countries to reduce only half of the aggregate employment-rate gap vis-à-vis the United States, the other half being mechanically due to differences in the population structure by age and educational attainment. In this experiment, a 1% gain in employment is associated with a decrease of 0.24% in labour productivity on average across countries, and of 0.35% in low-employment countries.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1787/224146182015
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    The Macroeconomic Consequences of Banking Crises in OECD Countries (2009)
    Paris : OECD Publishing
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    gbv_73001925X
    Format: 31 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: OECD Economics Department Working Papers no.683
    Content: This paper examines the characteristics of downturns and subsequent recoveries following past banking crises in OECD countries as well as evidence of any effects on potential output growth. It is differentiated from previous analyses because it makes use of OECD measures of the output gap and potential output. Downturns following banking crises are found to be more protracted with larger output losses and disproportionate falls in housing and business investment. The recovery is typically more muted with exports providing a disproportionately large positive contribution. Evidence regarding possible effects on potential growth of a banking crisis is mixed. The banking crisis in Japan was followed by a deterioration in potential growth partly due to a worsening in productivity performance which may be related to the protracted nature of the banking problems and the resulting misallocation of capital. Following the Nordic banking crises, which were resolved more quickly, there was no deterioration in productivity performance, although there was a temporary deterioration in potential growth which is mostly explained by an increase in the structural unemployment rate, which in turn may reflect the interaction of an exceptionally severe downturn with structural labour market rigidities.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1787/226123651438
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    Quantifying the Effect of Financial Conditions in the Euro Area, Japan, United Kingdom and United States (2009)
    Paris : OECD Publishing
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    gbv_730023680
    Format: 40 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: OECD Economics Department Working Papers no.677
    Content: This paper constructs a broad measure of financial conditions for the United States, Japan, the Euro Area and the United Kingdom, by extending monetary condition indices which are traditionally used to gauge the impact of monetary policy on the economy. In addition to changes in the exchange rate and short and long interest rates, the change in credit availability, corporate bond spreads and household wealth are taken into account to gauge the evolution of financial conditions. Since the onset of the financial crisis, financial conditions have tightened by an unprecedented degree in the four countries/regions and this is evaluated to exert a major drag on activity.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1787/226365806132
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