How To Prepare the EU Integration: Banking System, Monetary Policy, and Exchange Rate in MacedoniaSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 13 - Trang 378-392 - 2006
Giorgio Dominese
The significant progress in the reform of the financial sector, including the amendments to the banking law and the reinforcement of the deposit insurance scheme, has been reflected in increased confidence in the Macedonia banking sector. Monetary policy and exchange rates represent a crucial aspect for the countries of Southeast Europe which would like to position themselves on the threshold of n...... hiện toàn bộ
Technical Efficiency in Cotton Production: The Role of Premium Payments in TurkeySpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 20 - Trang 285-294 - 2013
Ebru Guven Solakoglu, Sabri Er, M. Nihat Solakoglu
Providing about two million employments from textile to agriculture, cotton is an important and a strategic product for Turkey. Thus, support programs become critical and crucial for the cotton production. For cotton farmers, premium payments affecting the cost measures become vital next to the market prices. This study measures the technical efficiency of cotton production, incorporating support ...... hiện toàn bộ
Co-creative Leadership: An Integrated Approach towards Transformational LeadershipSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 13 - Trang 607-623 - 2006
Alexander Schieffer
The classical understanding of team leadership is extremely difficult to sustain in times when complexity and dynamics have risen to such high levels that very few individuals can assimilate them. The success of team leadership requires the ``participation of those already implicated'' in the development and implementation of a solution – and therefore in the leadership process. How can this be ac...... hiện toàn bộ
Strategy and Structure in the Italian Fashion Industry: A Case of InternationalisationSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - - 2009
Ernesto Tavoletti
Many SMEs in the Italian fashion industry do not find a fit between strategy and structure able to open them to growth and new opportunities in emerging international markets. Through an in depth analysis of a successful business case, a contribution is made to the study of strategy–structure fit in the Italian fashion industry, with particular reference to the international growth phase. The case...... hiện toàn bộ
Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenditures by Russian Consumers with Different Health StatusSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 14 - Trang 331-338 - 2007
Galina Besstremyannaya
The paper uses the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey 2003 database to study the types of official and shadow out-of-pocket health care expenditures by consumers with high and low health status. The analysis shows that the inability of less healthy people to pay unofficially for more effective outpatient care results in their higher demand for official inpatient and outpatient treatment. This p...... hiện toàn bộ
Long-term Cereal Price Changes: How Important is the Speculative Element?Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 17 - Trang 624-637 - 2010
Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan, M. Bruna Zolin
The objective of this article is to provide an analysis of the relationship existing between cereal prices and several variables (population, income, exports, the exchange rate, and speculation), by using a linear regression analysis. Specific emphasis is placed on the speculative dimension. Our results show that speculation has played a crucial role during the period June 2001–December 2009. Expo...... hiện toàn bộ
Effects of Terms of Trade and its Volatility on Economic Growth: A Cross Country Empirical InvestigationSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 18 - Trang 217-229 - 2011
Syed Tehseen Jawaid, Abdul Waheed
This study examines the effects of terms of trade and its volatility on economic growth for a sample of 94 developed and developing countries, using 5 year average annual data from 2004 to 2008. The cross country ordinary least square estimation results indicate significant positive effect of terms of trade on economic growth. Furthermore, volatility of terms of trade has significant positive effe...... hiện toàn bộ