Physica Verlag Hd: 128 books
Freight Forwarder's Intermediary Role in Multimodal Transport Chains
A Social Network Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
In this book, the business of international freight forwarding is examined from both a theoretical and empirical point of view with a special emphasis on multimodal transport chains, including sea or air transport operations. In such contexts, the freight forwarder is always considered "The Architect...
Services Offshoring and its Impact on the Labor Market
Theoretical Insights, Empirical Evidence, and Economic Policy Recommendations for Germany
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Services – from information technology to research to finance – are now as subject to international trade as goods have been for decades. What are the labor market consequences of the recent surge in services offshoring? While offshoring has traditionally been found to affect only less-skilled...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
The world is changing rapidly. The global economic crisis has called into question the political decisions that have been made by all countries for decades and has led to a re-formulation of tools and aims. Adjustments to the new situation are necessary and entail considerable economic and social...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
The fifth International Telework Workshop was held in Stockholm in the fall of 2000. The conference was attended by almost 100 participants from all continents of the world. It therefore covered a broad range of subjects relating to Telework. Its success was in some part due to the work of the program...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book presents the findings of the extensive research progrannne funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council) and entitled 'Technological Change and Regional Development in Europe'. The goal of this programme was to carry out research by means of empirical surveys into...
Climate Technology Strategies 2
The Macro-Economic Cost and Benefit of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Climate technology becomes more and more relevant in international environmental policy negotiations. At the Kyoto conference binding emission reduction targets have been established for several regions of the world. The major challenge is how to realize these reduction goals with minimum costs without...
Entropy, Water and Resources
An Essay in Natural Sciences-Consistent Economics
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2010
This book lies at the intersection of natural sciences, economics, and water en- neering and is in line with the long tradition of environmental economics at the University of Heidelberg. In the 1970s, the Neo-Austrian Capital Theory was developed using the fundamental laws of thermodynamics as a...
Systemic Transformation, Trade and Economic Growth
Developments, Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Results
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Since the late 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) have been involved in the transition process. This book compares the progress of some of these economies in transition and analyses their growth potential....
The Dynamics of the Price Structure and the Business Cycle
The Italian Evidence from 1945 to 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
By exploring the price dynamics and business cycle of the Italian economy with reference to the most important international events, this text sheds new light on the country's current situation. Using a long-term analytical framework underpinned by principal theoretical approaches, the analysis places...
by Tomas Cipra
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Financial and insurance calculations become more and more frequent and helpful for many users not only in their profession life but sometimes even in their personal life. Therefore a survey of formulas of ?nancial and insurance mathematics that can be applied to such calculations seems to be a suitable...
International Trade, Wage Inequality and the Developing Economy
A General Equilibrium Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book deals with the impact that international trade is likely to have on the skilled-unskilled wage gap in a typical developing economy. This is the first theoretical monograph on this particular issue which has already generated substantial debate and voluminous work for the developed countries....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
South Korea has attained spectacular economic success in recent decades. It has reached the status of a Newly Advanced Economy, with challenges increasingly mirroring those faced by other advanced economies. These include the necessary upgrading of the labor force, the frictions of switching to a...
Intellectual Property Rights
National Systems and Harmonisation in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This book is the result of the PhD project I started four years ago at Europa-Kolleg Hamburg. I had the great opportunity to work on it for one year at the European University Institute in Florence and to finalise the oeuvre during my stay with the European Commission's Institute for Prospective Technological...
Small Firms and Entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe
A Socio-Economic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Much of the research on transformation/transition in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) focuses on macroeconomic issues (inflation, economic growth, employment ...). Little research has been devoted so far to microeconomic analysis. Recently the issue of new enterprises and firm founders...