Economic Reform and the Political Economy of the German Welfare State doc

... Press, 192 GERMAN POLITICS Economic Reform and the Political Economy of the German Welfare State WOLFGANG STREECK and CHRISTINE TRAMPUSCH The central problem of the German economy is the high costs of ... on the basis of the length of ECONOMIC REFORM AND THE GERMAN WELFARE STATE 179 their insurance record and the amount of co...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 20:20

... systems (the dynamics of firms and economic sectors) with political economy (research on the social and political regulation of economic relations) and thereby contributing to the analysis of state ... historical variants of the Keynesian welfare state. The paper compares three cases of governance of the biotechnology sector: Finland and Sweden,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 21:59

... 80% and 100%; and in terms of number of banks between 36% and 100%. In terms of assets of nonbank financial institutions, the coverage of our sample is between 47% and 90%. Almost 42% of these ... is economically insolvent. The tradeoffs involved will, among others, be of a public choice nature and include the importance of the particular financial institutio...

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... Appointment of bank officials. In New Zealand, both the minister of finance and the board of the central bank must ratify the appointment of the governor (double veto). Board appointments are made by the finance ... then again consulted. In the Netherlands, the president and the director-secretary of the Neder- landsche Bank are appointed by the minister o...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... design. They may interact with the main macroeco- nomic variables, such as the level of GDP per worker, the openness of the economy, the level of debt and the share of agriculture, and with other ... minimal. The third tenet of the formal voting theory emphasizes the importance of the form of the voting game’. On the contrary, there are positive th...

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... parts of Australia, while other codes captured the hearts and minds of people in other areas of the country. Rob and Matthew also examine the ways in which soccer spread itself across the nation ... and watched all over the nation. Bob and Geoff also examine the transformation of the Victorian Football League into the Australian Football League, and the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 02:21

... between the regional dynamics in the case of Asia and the US on the one hand, and Europe on the other hand. In the case of the Asian and US examples discussed in this Chapter, successful economic ... prepare the people of the province for the knowledge economy of the 21st century; • To contain the spread of HIV/AIDS and TB; • To empower the po...

Ngày tải lên: 27/01/2014, 12:20

... links,” which permit direct shipping and passenger travel between the Taiwanese-held offshore islands of Kinmen and Matsu and the mainland cities of Xiamen and Fuzhou, and some Taiwanese analysts expect ... third-largest producer of IT hardware items has touched off a debate in - xiv - Taiwan about the supposed “hollowing out” of the island’s economy. On the dema...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 22:20

... other by China. If one competes and the other does not, the pay-off is plus 10 for the competitor and minus 10 for the other. If both compete, they each get minus 5. If neither competes, they ... (1) the emergence of China as the global center of manufacturing, with China playing the role of factory for the world; (2) the creation of a new dollar zone share...

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