Trade integration and trade imbalances in the European Union: a network perspective

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We study the ever more integrated and ever more unbalanced trade relationships between European countries. To better capture the complexity of economic networks, we propose two global measures that assess ... [more ▼]

We study the ever more integrated and ever more unbalanced trade relationships between European countries. To better capture the complexity of economic networks, we propose two global measures that assess the trade integration and the trade imbalances of the European countries. These measures are the network (or indirect) counterparts to traditional (or direct) measures such as the trade-to-GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and trade deficit-to-GDP ratios. Our indirect tools account for the European inter-country trade structure and follow (i) a decomposition of the global trade flow into elementary flows that highlight the long-range dependencies between exporting and importing economies and (ii) the commute-time distance for trade integration,which measures the impact of a perturbation in the economy of a country on another country, possibly through intermediate partners by domino effect. Our application addresses the impact of the launch of the Euro. We find that the indirect imbalance measures better identify the countries ultimately bearing deficits and surpluses, by neutralizing the impact of trade transit countries, such as the Netherlands. Among others, we find that ultimate surpluses of Germany are quite concentrated in only three partners. We also show that for some countries, the direct and indirect measures of trade integration diverge, thereby revealing that these countries (e.g. Greece and Portugal) trade to a smaller extent with countries considered as central in the European Union network. [less ▲]

Dimension Formulae for Spaces of Lifted Bianchi Modular Forms

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5D Super Yang-Mills on Y p,q Sasaki-Einstein manifolds

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On any simply connected Sasaki-Einstein five dimensional manifold one can construct a super Yang-Mills theory which preserves at least two supersymmetries. We study the special case of toric Sasaki ... [more ▼]

On any simply connected Sasaki-Einstein five dimensional manifold one can construct a super Yang-Mills theory which preserves at least two supersymmetries. We study the special case of toric Sasaki-Einstein manifolds known as Y p,q manifolds. We use the localisation technique to compute the full perturbative part of the partition function. The full equivariant result is expressed in terms of certain special function which appears to be a curious generalisation of the triple sine function. As an application of our general result we study the large N behaviour for the case of single hypermultiplet in adjoint representation and we derive the N 3-behaviour in this case. [less ▲]

Fast reconstruction of compact context-specific metabolic network models

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Systemic approaches to the study of a biological cell or tissue rely increasingly on the use of context-specific metabolic network models. The reconstruction of such a model from high-throughput data can ... [more ▼]

Systemic approaches to the study of a biological cell or tissue rely increasingly on the use of context-specific metabolic network models. The reconstruction of such a model from high-throughput data can routinely involve large numbers of tests under different conditions and extensive parameter tuning, which calls for fast algorithms. We present FASTCORE, a generic algorithm for reconstructing context-specific metabolic network models from global genome-wide metabolic network models such as Recon X. FASTCORE takes as input a core set of reactions that are known to be active in the context of interest (e.g., cell or tissue), and it searches for a flux consistent subnetwork of the global network that contains all reactions from the core set and a minimal set of additional reactions. Our key observation is that a minimal consistent reconstruction can be defined via a set of sparse modes of the global network, and FASTCORE iteratively computes such a set via a series of linear programs. Experiments on liver data demonstrate speedups of several orders of magnitude, and significantly more compact reconstructions, over a chief rival method. Given its simplicity and its excellent performance, FASTCORE can form the backbone of many future metabolic network reconstruction algorithms. [less ▲]

Universal families of extensions of coherent systems

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We prove a result of cohomology and base change for families of coherent systems over a curve. We use that in order to prove the existence of (non-split, non-degenerate) universal families of extensions ... [more ▼]

We prove a result of cohomology and base change for families of coherent systems over a curve. We use that in order to prove the existence of (non-split, non-degenerate) universal families of extensions for families of coherent systems (in the spirit of the paper "Universal families of extensions" by H. Lange). Such results will be applied in subsequent papers in order to describe the wallcrossing for some moduli spaces of coherent systems. [less ▲]

Asymmetric contests with risky rents

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Differential Game with (A)symmetric Players and Heterogeneous Strategies

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This paper presents one kind of heterogeneous strategies in some differential games where one player plays open-loop strategy and the other one plays Markovian strategy. On top of the stationary path ... [more ▼]

This paper presents one kind of heterogeneous strategies in some differential games where one player plays open-loop strategy and the other one plays Markovian strategy. On top of the stationary path, this kind of strategies enable the study of trajectory dynamics, even for asymmetric players’ with non-linear-quadratic games. [less ▲]

Offshore financial centers: Tax havens or safe havens

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Capital- and Labor-Saving Technical Change in an Aging Economy

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Does population aging and the associated increase in the old-age dependency ratio affect economic growth ? The answer is given in a novel analytical framework that allows for population aging to affect ... [more ▼]

Does population aging and the associated increase in the old-age dependency ratio affect economic growth ? The answer is given in a novel analytical framework that allows for population aging to affect endogenous capital- and labor-saving technical change. The short-run analysis reveals that population aging induces more labor- and less capital-saving technical change as it increases the relative scarcity of labor with respect to capital. Due to external contemporaneous knowledge spill-overs across innovating firms induced technical change has a first-order effect on current aggregate income. In the long-run capitalsaving technical progress vanishes, and the economy’s growth rate reflects only labor-saving technical change. However, the mere possibility of capital-saving technical change is shown to imply that the economy’s steady-state growth rate becomes independent of its age structure: neither a higher life-expectancy nor a decline in fertility affects economic growth in the long run. [less ▲]

Balancing the interests in the context of data retention

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Parameter estimation based on discrete observations of fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process of the second kind

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List of documents and references quoted in the study of the research corpus 'A rereading of the Werner Report of 8 October 1970 in the light of the Pierre Werner family archives'

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This List of references and sources quoted in the research corpus concerning the Werner Report analysis is an output of the major research project dedicated to the European vocation and achievements of ... [more ▼]

This List of references and sources quoted in the research corpus concerning the Werner Report analysis is an output of the major research project dedicated to the European vocation and achievements of Pierre Werner, a former Prime Minister, Finance Minister and Foreign Minister of Luxembourg, unanimously recognised as one of the architects of Economic and Monetary Union. The first stage of the research was particularly focused on the plan for the establishment by stages of an economic and monetary union (more widely known as the Werner Report or the Werner Plan), drawn up by a group of experts chaired by Pierre Werner and officially presented on 8 October 1970 in Luxembourg. [less ▲]

The Home market effect with heterogeneous firms

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This paper examines the home market effect in the framework of heterogeneous firms. The paper finds that not only trade costs but also fixed trade costs cause the home market effect and the reverse home ... [more ▼]

This paper examines the home market effect in the framework of heterogeneous firms. The paper finds that not only trade costs but also fixed trade costs cause the home market effect and the reverse home market effect can occur as the fixed trade costs are very low. In addition, the agnitude of the home market effect varies with industry characteristics. Industries with low trade costs, high fixed production costs, low fixed export costs, and high productivity dispersion tend to be more concentrated in large countries. Finally, the negative impact of trade barriers on the home market effect is dampened by the elasticity of substitution which is contrary with the result of the homogeneous firm model. An empirical model is built to test these predictions for developed countries. The empirical results are consistent with the predictions of the theoretical model. [less ▲]

Protection of the Content of a 'Wiki' Database under the European Database Directive

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La population par nationalité (2)

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On 1st February 2011, 59.8% of residents were born in Luxembourg (306 221 persons). With 85.6%, the big majority of these people are Luxembourgish. Three-quarters (74.2%) of foreign-born living in ... [more ▼]

On 1st February 2011, 59.8% of residents were born in Luxembourg (306 221 persons). With 85.6%, the big majority of these people are Luxembourgish. Three-quarters (74.2%) of foreign-born living in Luxembourg have another nationality of the European Union, while 14.1% have the Luxembourgish nationality. 41.5% (+- 85 000 people) of the people born abroad arrived in the past 10 years. At the time of the census, 42,465 people were naturalized. Portuguese and Italians are the more numerous to have acquired the Luxembourgish nationality. If 20.2% of naturalized citizen have at least a second nationality (8 557 individuals), only 2.7% of Luxembourgish Birth (6 736 people) have at least a second nationality. Relating to the socio-economic status and the household size, significant differences are observed between Luxembourgish and foreigners. The share of Luxembourgish having a job is 39.5%, while for foreigners it is about 48.5%. If 16.6% of Luxembourgish are retired, they are only 8.4% among foreigners. The average household size is larger for foreigners (2.54) than Luxembourgish households (2.32). [less ▲]

Harmony as language policy in China: An internet perspective

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This paper provides an ethnographic understanding of harmony as language policy in China. We ground this understanding in a historical analysis of ‘harmony’ as a distinct traditional Chinese ideal that ... [more ▼]

This paper provides an ethnographic understanding of harmony as language policy in China. We ground this understanding in a historical analysis of ‘harmony’ as a distinct traditional Chinese ideal that gradually finds its new expressions through policy in contemporary China. Based on this, we will focus particularly on language practices surrounding ‘harmony’ that are emerging from the Internet, a discursive space and site of policing that is highly diverse while also heavily contested with respect to policing processes, and notably so in the context of the PRC for its stringent measurement of censorship and sensitization of language use. From this perspective of the Internet, we will show empirically that although the state is arguably the strongest stakeholder in implementing the policy of harmony – or, better, harmonization – in the case of China, the actual processes of harmonization through policing online develop in detailed, multidirectional and unpredictable rather than abstract, linear or monofocal ways. The outcomes of such processes are, paradoxically, alternative ideologies of harmony as well as nonnormative use of language. The general implications to language policy will also be discussed. [less ▲]

LEARN stellt sech fier

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The Division of Parental Transfers in Europe

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In this paper we explore the patterns of the division of inter-vivos financial transfers from parents to adult children in a sample of 12 European countries. We exploit two waves of the Survey of Health ... [more ▼]

In this paper we explore the patterns of the division of inter-vivos financial transfers from parents to adult children in a sample of 12 European countries. We exploit two waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) for 50+. Contrary to previous studies, we find a higher frequency of parents dividing equally their transfers. We argue that altruistic parents are also concerned with norms of equal division, and hence don’t fully offset child income differences. The parents start to give larger transfers to poorer children if the child income inequality becomes unbearable from the parent’s view. We find econometric evidence suggesting this behaviour under different specifications and strategies. Furthermore, contextual variables like the gini coefficient and pension expenditures help to explain country differences with respect to the division of inter-vivos transfers. The lower frequency of equal division found in studies with American data may respond to the higher inequality and relatively lower pension expenditures in US. [less ▲]

"Making of" du recensement général de la population au 1er février 2011

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Cette publication est la première d’une sérié, réali-sée conjointement par le STATEC et l’Université du Luxembourg/INSIDE (Integrative Research Unit on Social and Individual Development), présentant au ... [more ▼]

Cette publication est la première d’une sérié, réali-sée conjointement par le STATEC et l’Université du Luxembourg/INSIDE (Integrative Research Unit on Social and Individual Development), présentant au public intéressé les résultats du recensement de la population de 2011. Au 1er février 2011 s’est déroulé le 36e recensement de la population au Grand-Duché de Luxembourg. Pendant plusieurs semaines, 2 157 agents recen-seurs, nommés par les communes, ont distribué et collecté les questionnaires auprès des ménages. Ces ménages avaient, pour la première fois, la pos-sibilité de remplir leur questionnaire par Internet. 512 353 personnes ont été recensées comme rési-dantes. [less ▲]

Critère d'irréductibilité pour les courbes elliptiques semi-stables sur un corps de nombres

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For a fixed number field and an elliptic curve defined and semistable over this number field, we consider the set of prime numbers p such that the Galois representation attached to the p-torsion points of ... [more ▼]

For a fixed number field and an elliptic curve defined and semistable over this number field, we consider the set of prime numbers p such that the Galois representation attached to the p-torsion points of the elliptic curve is reducible. When the number field satisfies a certain necessary condition, we give an explicit bound, depending only on the number field and not on the semistable elliptic curve, for these primes. This generalizes previous results of Kraus. [less ▲]

Transposition of Directives on the Common Regulatory Framework for Electronic Networks and Services now Complete

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Transposition of Directive 2009/136/EC on Electronic Communications Completed

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Feynman integrals and periods in configuration spaces

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Lecture Notes on Topological Field Theory

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These notes are based on the lecture the author gave at the workshop 'Geometry of Strings and Fields' held at Nordita, Stockholm. In these notes, I shall cover some topics in both the perturbative and non ... [more ▼]

These notes are based on the lecture the author gave at the workshop 'Geometry of Strings and Fields' held at Nordita, Stockholm. In these notes, I shall cover some topics in both the perturbative and non-perturbative aspects of the topological Chern-Simons theory. The non-perturbative part will mostly be about the quantization of Chern-Simons theory and the use of surgery for computation, while the non-perturbative part will include brief discussions about framings, eta invariants, APS-index theorem, torsions and finite type knot invariants. [less ▲]

A level raising result for modular Galois representations modulo prime powers

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Das grenzübergreifende Angebot im Einzelhandel in der Großregion SaarLorLux

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Die Karte zeigt die kommerziellen Ballungszentren in den Grenzregionen der Großregion auf der Grundlage eigener Erhebungen. Sie ermöglicht, das kommerzielle Angebot nach der Größe und Zusammensetzung der ... [more ▼]

Die Karte zeigt die kommerziellen Ballungszentren in den Grenzregionen der Großregion auf der Grundlage eigener Erhebungen. Sie ermöglicht, das kommerzielle Angebot nach der Größe und Zusammensetzung der kommerziellen Zentren zu quantifizieren und zu typisieren. Das abgedeckte Gebiet setzt sich zusammen aus dem Großherzogtum Luxemburg und den belgischen, deutschen und französischen Ballungsräumen, die in der Isochrone einer zwanzigminütigen Autofahrt ab der luxemburgischen Grenze liegen. In dieser Isochrone liegen folgende Städte und ihre Ballungsräume: Trier und Bitburg in Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarbrücken im Saarland, Metz, Thionville und Longwy in Lothringen sowie Arlon und Bastogne in Wallonien. Ein einziges Zentrum wurde außerhalb dieser Zone lokalisiert: The Style Outlets in Zweibrücken. Es erscheint in der Datenbank aufgrund seines ausgedehnten Einzugsgebietes, das bis ins Großherzogtum Luxemburg reicht. Im Rahmen dieser Studie wurden nur die Zentren berücksichtigt, die eine ungefähre Größe von 10 000 m² überschreiten. [less ▲]

Higher Koszul duality for associative algebras

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The Clean Development Mechanism in a Global Carbon Market

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This paper discusses the role of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) on the market for carbon quotas and countries' commitments to reduce their carbon emission levels. We show that the CDM contributes ... [more ▼]

This paper discusses the role of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) on the market for carbon quotas and countries' commitments to reduce their carbon emission levels. We show that the CDM contributes to an efficient funding of clean technology investments in least developed countries. However, the CDM is not neutral on the global level of carbon emissions as it entices countries to raise their emission caps. The CDM may also make inappropriate the inclusion of any country that takes no emission abatement commitment. It can even make inefficient a country's decision to commit to an emission target. [less ▲]

De Rham cohomology and homotopy Frobenius manifolds

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Die Textilindustrie in der Großregion SaarLorLux

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Die Textilindustrie hatte sehr viel Zeit um die Industrielandschaften der Großregion zu verändern, denn sie ist eine der sehr frühzeitig industrialisierten wirtschaftlichen Aktivitäten. Sie entstand oft ... [more ▼]

Die Textilindustrie hatte sehr viel Zeit um die Industrielandschaften der Großregion zu verändern, denn sie ist eine der sehr frühzeitig industrialisierten wirtschaftlichen Aktivitäten. Sie entstand oft auf proto-industrieller Basis, wurde bereits sehr früh in fast all ihren Sektoren mechanisiert (von der Spinnerei über die Weberei, das Färben, das Bleichen und das Bedrucken bis hin zur Konfektion) und lässt auf diese Art manchmal große Industriezusammenschlüsse entstehen, die neben bescheidener gebliebenen Niederlassungen beeindrucken. Dieser Pioniersektor wird heute in Europa oft als Aktivität der Vergangenheit angesehen, deren wichtigste Bereiche in südliche Länder mit billigeren Arbeitskräften ausgelagert wurden. Doch auch wenn die Textilindustrie in der Großregion ein Bild von mehr oder weniger gut umgewandelten und im Sinne des kulturellen Erbes zur Geltung gebrachten Hinterlassenschaften abgibt, so ist sie auch und noch immer ein aktiver Sektor, orientiert in Richtung industrieller Marktnischen oder der Herstellung hochwertiger Produkte. Diese innovativen Produktionen erfolgen oft in modernen Gebäuden, die sich abheben vom Klischee der Textilfabriken in Shedbauweise mit auffallenden hohen Backsteinschloten. [less ▲]

State Owned Firms: Private Debt, Cost Revelation and Welfare

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In this paper we study the role of private debt financing in disciplining a state owned firm operating for a government that incurs a cost of public financing. We show that debt contracts allow the ... [more ▼]

In this paper we study the role of private debt financing in disciplining a state owned firm operating for a government that incurs a cost of public financing. We show that debt contracts allow the government to avoid socially costly subsidies by letting unprofitable state- owned firms default. Debt is never used when the firm and government share the same information about the firm. By contrast, when the state-owned firm has private information, the government has an incentive to use debt to reduce the firm's information rents. We identify the conditions under which a positive debt level benefits governments. They depend on the cost of public funds, the interbank funding rate, the share of foreign investors, the level and uncertainty of the firm's cost. [less ▲]

Efficient ANOVA for directional data

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In this paper we tackle the ANOVA problem for directional data (with particular emphasis on geological data) by having recourse to the Le Cam methodology usually reserved for linear multivariate analysis ... [more ▼]

In this paper we tackle the ANOVA problem for directional data (with particular emphasis on geological data) by having recourse to the Le Cam methodology usually reserved for linear multivariate analysis. We construct locally and asymptotically most stringent parametric tests for ANOVA for directional data within the class of rotationally symmetric distributions. We turn these parametric tests into semi-parametric ones by (i) using a studentization argument (which leads to what we call pseudo-FvML tests) and by (ii) resorting to the invariance principle (which leads to efficient rank-based tests). Within each construction the semi-parametric tests inherit optimality under a given distribution (the FvML distribution in the first case, any rotationally symmetric distribution in the second) from their parametric antecedents and also improve on the latter by being valid under the whole class of rotationally symmetric distributions. Asymptotic relative efficiencies are calculated and the finite-sample behaviour of the proposed tests is investigated by means of a Monte Carlo simulation. We conclude by applying our findings on a real-data example involving geological data. [less ▲]

Associated families of immersions of three dimensional CR manifolds in Euclidean spaces

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Asymmetric Competition among Nation States: A Differential Game Approach

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This paper analyzes the impact of foreign investments on a small country's economy in the context of international competition. To that end, we model tax and infrastructure competition within a ... [more ▼]

This paper analyzes the impact of foreign investments on a small country's economy in the context of international competition. To that end, we model tax and infrastructure competition within a differential game framework between two unequally sized countries. The model accounts for the widely recognized characteristic that small states are more flexible in their political decision making than larger countries. However, we also acknowledge that small size is associated with limited institutional capacity in the provision of public goods. The model shows that the long-term outcome of international competition crucially depends on the degree of capital mobility. In particular, we show that flexibility mitigates against - but does not eliminate - the likelihood of collapse in a small economy. Finally, we note that the beneficial effect of flexibility in a small state increases with its inefficiency in providing public infrastructure and with the degree of international openness. [less ▲]

bsolute continuity of Markov chains ergodic measures by Dirichlet forms methods

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Commodity taxation and regulatory competition

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This paper studies competition in regulation and commodity taxation between trading countries. We present a general equilibrium model in which destination based consumption taxes finance public goods ... [more ▼]

This paper studies competition in regulation and commodity taxation between trading countries. We present a general equilibrium model in which destination based consumption taxes finance public goods, while regulation of entry determines the number of firms in the markets. We find (i) no strategic interaction in commodity taxes; (ii) regulation leads to lower commodity tax rates if demand for public goods is more sensitive to income than demand for private goods and (iii) regulation policy is a strategically complement instrument if consumers do not over value product diversity. In the empirical part of the paper, we test our predictions using panel data for 21 OECD countries over the period 1990-2008. [less ▲]

Paulinus, Bischof von Trier

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Helena, Römische Kaiserin

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Conditioned Higher Moment Portfolio Optimisation Using Optimal Control

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Unfavorable Land Endowment, Cooperation, and Reversal of Fortune

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This research advances the hypothesis that reversal of fortunes in the process of economic develop- ment can be traced to the effect of natural land productivity on the desirable level of cooperation in ... [more ▼]

This research advances the hypothesis that reversal of fortunes in the process of economic develop- ment can be traced to the effect of natural land productivity on the desirable level of cooperation in the agricultural sector. In early stages of development, unfavorable land endowment enhanced the economic incentive for cooperation in the creation of agricultural infrastructure that could mitigate the adverse effect of the natural environment. Nevertheless, despite the beneficial effects of cooperation on the intensive margin of agriculture, low land productivity countries lagged behind during the agricultural stage of development. However, as cooperation, and its persistent effect on social capital, have become increasingly important in the process of industrialization, the transition from agriculture to industry among unfavorable land endowment economies was expedited, permitting those economies that lagged behind in the agricultural stage of development, to overtake the high land productivity economies in the industrial stage of development. Exploiting exogenous sources of variations in land productivity across countries the research further explores the testable predictions of the theory. It establishes that: (i) reversal of fortunes in the process of development can be traced to variation in natural land productivity across countries. Economies characterized by favorable land endowment dominated the world economy in the agricultural stage of development but were overtaken in the process of industrialization; (ii) lower level of land productivity in the past is associated with higher levels of contemporary social capital; (iii) cooperation, as reflected by agricultural infrastructure, emerged primarily in places were land was not highly productive and collective action could have diminished the adverse effects of the environment and enhance agricultural output. [less ▲]

The Competitiveness of Global Port-Cities: the Case of Hamburg

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Analysing voice in educational discourses

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On Learning a Language in Transformation: Two final year students’ experiences in Chinese complementary education

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This paper is concerned with Chinese-Dutch children’s experiences with learning Chinese in the Netherlands. The paper presents basic facts about the Chinese language and its changing position in the world ... [more ▼]

This paper is concerned with Chinese-Dutch children’s experiences with learning Chinese in the Netherlands. The paper presents basic facts about the Chinese language and its changing position in the world, a brief history of the Chinese diaspora in the Netherlands and the context of Chinese complementary education. It analyses two written accounts of final year students’ experiences with learning Chinese, focusing on the ways of speaking about Chinese in relation to identity and education. In conclusion, it is argued that the students’ experiences urge us to consider Chinese as a polycentric language – i.e. as a language with multiple and competing centres of gravity – and as a language in transformation. [less ▲]

Multilingual Europe 2.0: Dutch-Chinese youth identities in the era of superdiversity

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This paper argues that multilingual/multicultural identity in Europe has reached a next level since we have entered the era of superdiversity. Under superdiversity we are confronted with a diversification ... [more ▼]

This paper argues that multilingual/multicultural identity in Europe has reached a next level since we have entered the era of superdiversity. Under superdiversity we are confronted with a diversification of diversity: relations between ethnicity, citizenship, residence, origin, language, profession, etc. have become more complex and less predictable than before, and as a consequence there is a need to revisit, deconstruct and reinvent our theoretical toolkit to analyse language, culture, ethnicity, identity, etc. This contribution draws on ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in and around a Chinese complementary school in the Netherlands and is part of a larger project investigating discourses of inheritance and identities in multilingual European settings. It focuses on the ethnic and linguistic identifications of Dutch-Chinese youngsters on the Asian and Proud community of the Dutch social networking site Hyves, and shows how Dutch-Chinese youngsters of diverse backgrounds engage in creative languaging in „netnolectal‟ Dutch while discussing/celebrating their ethnic and linguistic identities. Focusing on young people‟s identities, this paper aims to entangle the complexities of being, speaking and learning Chinese in the Netherlands. It thereby explores the internal diversity within Chineseness and its functioning within, or repositioning as, a larger Asian identity as well as its relation to Dutch/European-ness. [less ▲]

Auswertung der Selbstevaluation des IDENT-Projekts (2007-2010)

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Sustainable Migration Policies

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This paper considers whether countries might mutually agree a policy of allowing free movement of workers. For the countries to agree, the short run costs must outweighed by the long term benefits that ... [more ▼]

This paper considers whether countries might mutually agree a policy of allowing free movement of workers. For the countries to agree, the short run costs must outweighed by the long term benefits that result from better labor market flexibility and income smoothing. We show that such policies are less likely to be adopted for less risk averse workers and for countries that trade more. More surprisingly we find that some congestion costs can help. This reverses the conventional wisdom that congestion costs tend to inhibit free migration policies. [less ▲]

Amendment of Several Regulations Concerning Electronic Media

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Entwicklungen und Strukturen der grenzüberschreitenden Zusammenarbeit in der Großregion

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In diesem Beitrag werden die über Jahrzehnte hinweg gewachsenen Strukturen der internationalen, interregionalen und grenznachbarschaftlichen Kooperation in der Großregion vorgestellt. Die Betrachtung ... [more ▼]

In diesem Beitrag werden die über Jahrzehnte hinweg gewachsenen Strukturen der internationalen, interregionalen und grenznachbarschaftlichen Kooperation in der Großregion vorgestellt. Die Betrachtung erfolgt ab den späten 1960er Jahren über die 1990er Jahre, in denen die grenzüberschreitende Zusammenarbeit an allen EU-Binnengrenzen einen deutlichen Entwicklungsschub erfuhr; bis in die 2000er Jahre, in denen eine spürbare Verfestigung der grenzüberschreitenden Kooperation einsetzt. Die jeweiligen Entwicklungen werden an die entsprechenden Rahmenbedingungen, die unter anderem von Brüssel gesetzt werden, rückgebunden und nach Akteursebenen differenziert. [less ▲]

Die Autoindustrie in der Großregion SaarLorLux 2011 - aktuelle Entwicklungen, Herausforderungen und Lösungsansätze

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Mit rund 150 000 Beschäftigten und mehr als 600 Unternehmen zählt die Automobilindustrie zu den wichtigsten Wirtschaftszweigen in der Großregion. In der jüngeren Vergangenheit haben allerdings die ... [more ▼]

Mit rund 150 000 Beschäftigten und mehr als 600 Unternehmen zählt die Automobilindustrie zu den wichtigsten Wirtschaftszweigen in der Großregion. In der jüngeren Vergangenheit haben allerdings die Globalisierung, technologischer Wandel und vor allem die globale Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise die Branche stark beeinflusst und vor große Herausforderungen gestellt. Der Beitrag versucht, diese Entwicklungen nachzuzeichnen und mögliche Strategien und Maßnahmen zu diskutieren, mit denen auf die Herausforderungen reagiert werden kann. Dieser Beitrag ergänzt den vor der Wirtschaftskrise von 2008 geschriebenen Beitrag Autoindustrie 2007 von C. Schulz, P. Dörrenbächer und H. Pansch. Die beiden Karten zeigen die Betriebe der Autohersteller und ihrer Zulieferer mit mindestens 500 Arbeitsplätzen in den Jahren 2007 (C. Schulz/P. Dörrenbächer/H. Pansch) und 2011 (C.K. Hahn) im Vergleich, also kurz vor bzw. nach der 2008 ausgebrochenen Finanzkrise. [less ▲]

The Chen-Stein method for Poisson functionals

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