Suchergebnisse

1. Post-Crisis Growth: Prospects in the European Union -- 2. Convergence Is Alive and Well in Europe -- 3. Unconventional Monetary Policy in the United States and Europe -- 4. Time to Tidy up EU Competition on Information Exchange Object Restriction Concerted Practices? -- 5. European Union Transport Policy: Post Crisis Challenges -- 6. Size of the Shadow Economies of 28 European Union Countries from 2003-2018: The Latest Development -- 7. Evaluating the Prevalence and the Working Conditions of Dependent Self-Employment in the European Union -- 8. Political Economy, Inward Foreign Direct Investment and EU Accession of the Western Balkans -- 9. Greece as a Bridge to the Most Vibrant Region of the Next Decades -- 10. The Third Hellenic Economic Adjustment Program: Success Story of Macroeconomic Stabilization or Failed Story of Economic Growth Restoration? -- 11. The Quality of Domestic Institutions as a Driver for the Initiation of Firms' Exporting in the EU Post-Crisis Period -- 12. Labor Market Duality under the Insider-Outside Theory, Labor Division, Rent-Seeking, and Clientelism: The Case of a European Union Member Country -- 13. How the Economics Profession Got it Wrong on Brexit

Europe is experiencing a financial and economic crisis. This began with the 'credit crunch' in the financial services sector and evolved as a sovereign debt crisis. Fiscal consolidation and austerity measures have been deployed in response to the crisis to reduce public deficits and debt. This crisis is still unfolding so that the analysis and findings of this report must remain a work in progress. This report aims to assess the impact of this crisis on the situation of women and men in Europe and on gender equality policies. This is important as economic crises are deeply gendered. Past experience cannot provide sufficient insight into the gender impact of this crisis as the position of women has changed considerably since the last major recession. This crisis offers opportunities for radical change, including a potential to advance equality for women and men. However, the crisis also poses challenges where gender equality may be seen as an issue only for the good times. This report is a product of the EGGE and the EGGSI expert networks of the European Commission. It covers twenty seven Member States, the EEA-EFTA countries and three candidate countries: Turkey, Croatia and FYROM. The core reference period for analysis of the labour market impact is the (nearly) four years between the second quarter of 2008 - when the crisis technically started for the EU as a whole1 - and the first quarter of 2012 - the latest quarter for which Eurostat data is available at the time of writing. Analysis of the social impact extends over the period between 2005 and 2010. ; peer-reviewed

The study focuses on changes made to the Law of Ukraine "On Accounting and Financial Reporting in Ukraine" for the purpose of implementing accounting standards to the European Union directives. The object of the research paper is accounting in Ukraine. The purpose of the study is to analyze the current state and development trends of accounting in Ukraine in the context of the implementation of European legislation. Research methods such as analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, abstraction, idealization and generalization are used to analyze the changes introduced into the Law of Ukraine "On Accounting and Financial Reporting in Ukraine". Today, Ukraine is moving actively towards the implementation of European legislation into domestic practice, including standards of accounting and financial reporting. Successful implementation of European legislation into domestic accounting practice, first and foremost, requires clarification of differences in accounting and financial reporting. The amendments made to the Law of Ukraine "On Accounting and Financial Reporting in Ukraine" will promote harmonization of national legislation in the field of accounting and financial reporting with the legislation of the European Union countries and the International Financial Reporting Standards. The changes introduced will provide the basis for raising accounting and financial reporting in Ukraine to a qualitatively new level that will enable effective management decision- making by domestic business entities. The results obtained are the basis for accounting and financial reporting in Ukraine, in accordance the norms of the European Union directives. The research results may be used all economic entities in Ukraine in different sectors of the economy.

Die Studie steht in Zusammenhang mit den Arbeiten des Forschungsverbundes netWORKS und seinen Anstrengungen, die zukünftige Organisationsstruktur und die Regulierungsformen in der kommunalen Wasserwirtschaft in einer Weise zu analysieren, die mögliche Handlungsräume für Bürgerbeteiligung und demokratisches Gestalten sichtbar macht. Darüber hinaus geht es darum, gerade auf kommunaler Ebene Spielräume und Wege für demokratische Aktivierung zu erkunden. Gesucht sind mithin Modelle der Partizipation und demokratischen Regulierung in Süd wie Nord, von denen in der einen oder anderen Weise zu lernen ist. Zwei konkretere Fallstudien zu England und Frankreich sollen die Dilemmata anschaulich machen, mit denen sich demokratisch verfasste Industriegesellschaften angesichts hochkomplexer Wasserversorgungs- und -entsorgungssysteme, die unter Privatisierungsdruck stehen und zunehmende Umweltanforderungen zu bewältigen haben, konfrontiert sehen. Insgesamt geht es darum, im Wege der Erörterung der jeweiligen Umgangsformen und Verfahrensweisen Optionen zu eruieren, den mit (Teil-)Privatisierungen einhergehenden Statuswandel im Entscheidungszugang - vom Bürger zum Kunden - in seiner demokratietheoretischen Bedeutung zu entschärfen und Möglichkeiten der Sicherung voller demokratischer Teilhabe zu entwickeln.

China has been the destination country for many international companies investments. Economy keeps very competitive and many investments are coming yet to China, where production costs are low. Chinese economic power and its capability to penetrate in international markets made China a very consistent and influent economic country. However, many companies are coming back from China because they consider that the reduced costs (principally wages) are not anymore as attractive as before. An analysis of this new international scenario is made in this paper as much as a perspective for the future and the implications for companies. ; peer-reviewed

Mainstream monitoring of income dynamics and inequality is based on summary measures that can miss important phenomena prevalent in income distributions. Relying on quantile functions and the adapted statistical framework suggested by Szekely and Rizzo (2004), we characterize the change and convergence of net equivalized income distributions among European Union countries. We exploit the scale-independence property of proper inequality metrics to evaluate not only the total but also the inequality-affecting (shape-influenced) convergence of distributions.