Consequences of EU enlargement for regional promotion measures in East Germany
Franz Kronthaler, Martin T. W. Rosenfeld
Wirtschaft im Wandel,
No. 9,
2002
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Consequences of EU enlargement for regional policy in East Germany EU enlargement will change the status of regions currently assisted by EU regional policy. A number of regions will probably lose their status as “Objective 1 Region” and will hence have to exist without EU regional policy funding. Furthermore it has to be assumed that the EU will additionally reduce the maximal permitted regional aid rate for investment in the same regions. Most regions in the East German Länder will be affected by these changes. A “phasing out” of such Objective 1 Regions could ease the adjustment pressures. In anticipating to the probable reduction of the regional aid rate for investment, the development of infrastructure should already today be intensified in order to alleviate locational disadvantages as far as possible.
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Regionale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit durch Erzielung von Wissensvorsprüngen? Für und Wider neuerer Theorieansätze
Peter Franz
Die Bedeutung von externen Effekten und Kollektivgütern für die regionale Entwicklung,
2002
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Possibilities and limitations of intra-regional exchange rate policy in Southern Africa
Tobias Knedlik
Monitoring Regional Integration in Southern Africa Yearbook, Vol. 2,
2002
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Regional effects of infrastrukture investments on the New Länder
Walter Komar, Evelyn Krolopp, Joachim Ragnitz
IWH-Sonderhefte,
No. 2,
2002
Abstract
Given infrastructure deficiencies in eastern German states and concomitant
weak growth, the present volume analyzes the extent to which making
important infrastructure projects a priority could more quickly improve
local business conditions in eastern Germany. Although the Solidarity Pact
II makes funds available for infrastructure development, these funds are
allocated over a period of twenty years. This timeframe will not allow the
rapid improvement of local business conditions.
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Was bringt die Wissenschaft für die Wirtschaft in einer Region?
Peter Franz, Martin T. W. Rosenfeld, Diana Roth
IWH Discussion Papers,
No. 163,
2002
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Institution Building for Regional Policy in Central and Eastern European Countries – Ready for Accession to the EU?
Gerhard Heimpold
Wirtschaft im Wandel,
No. 6,
2002
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The contribution investigates the state of institution building for regional policy purposes in Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary - candidate countries, which are preparing to become EU member states. In comparison with the situation at the beginning of the 1990s, when regional policy had only little importance in these countries, some progress has been achieved in the field of institution building, primarily at national level. A lot, however, still has to be done to complete this institution building: adaptation of programmes to the requirements of the EU regulations set for structural funds, designation of the management authorities and paying authorities, better coordination between the various central state institutions involved in regional policy, inclusion of regions into the national programming process. The competencies of these latter in the sphere of regional policy, which should be strengthened in the course of administrative reform in all the countries investigated, have not gained a foothold yet. In the accession states there is a need to clarify how the regions could be involved in the process of elaboration and realization of regional policy programmes.
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Risk Potential for Financial Crises for the Central and East European Transition Countries still high
Axel Brüggemann, Thomas Linne
Wirtschaft im Wandel,
No. 1,
2002
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Since the mid-nineties there have been several financial crises in Central and Eastern Europe. Among the countries affected are Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Romania - all countries with which the European Union is in the midst of accession negotiations. The prevention of financial crises is also important due to the output losses which occurr in the affected countries. Additionally, contagion effects can influence the economic situation in third countries such as those of the EU. For this reason, the IWH analyses on a regular basis the risk potential of the EU-accession countries as well as for Turkey and Russia.
Since the beginning of 1999 at least two different phases in the development of the risk potential can be distinguished for the majority of the Central and Eastern European countries. The first phase is marked by an increase in the risk potential across all countries in the region because of the contagion and spill-over effects following the Russian financial crisis in August 1998. The risk potential was considerably reduced with the phasing out of these effects and a worldwide economic recovery. However, since mid-2000 a second phase has set in. The weaker international environment has again led to a sizable increase in the crisis vulnerability of several countries, where a host of signals indicate an urgent need for economic policy actions.
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Wage and income subsidies for recipients of public and unemployment assistance
Wolfram Kempe, Hilmar Schneider
Wirtschaft im Wandel,
No. 16,
2001
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In dieser Arbeit, die auf einem Kapitel eines Gutachtens für das Bundesministerium der Finanzen zu den Anreizwirkungen der Sozialhilfe beruht, werden drei Kombilohnstrategien mit einer engen Zielgruppenbindung hinsichtlich ihrer Effekte bezüglich Erwerbsbereitschaft und fiskalischen Folgen für Ost- und Westdeutschland untersucht. Die Arbeitsangebotsentscheidung wird dabei unter Berücksichtigung des Haushaltskontextes im Rahmen eines mikroökonometrischen Conditional-Logit-Modells erfasst. Die Bereitschaft zur Aufnahme einer Erwerbsarbeit steigt tatsächlich, unterscheidet sich je nach Reformkonzept, Region, Geschlecht und Haushaltskontext aber beträchtlich. Die enge Zielgruppenbeschränkung auf Sozialtransferbezieher hat zur Folge, dass bei Erwerbsaufnahme trotz Subvention ein Teil der Transferzahlungen durch eigenes Einkommen ersetzt wird und die gesamtfiskalische Belastung des Staates damit zurückgeht.
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Regional Policy on the German Border with Poland – an Assessment and Typology of Current Measures
Gerhard Heimpold
Borders Matter: Transboundary Regions in Contemporary Europe. Border Region Studies 2.,
2001
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