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Zugl.: Würzburg, Univ., Diss., 2005

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität St. Gallen, 1999.

Master-Arbeit Univ. St. Gallen, 2007.

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The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) issued on 27 March 1997 a recommendation concerning cryptography policy guidelines in an attempt to foster international co-operation and harmonization. Information is becoming increasingly valuable in society. Globalization of markets, improvements in information and communication technology and the shift to a knowledge-based economy has, furthermore, created an enormous potential for electronic commerce. Conservative estimates predict electronic commerce will have a turnover of more than US $400 billion by 2002. The increasing importance of information and communications has, however, made the information society vulnerable. Cryptography plays an important part in securing transactions in electronic commerce and moreover, in establishing a secure electronic environment in the information society. Fear of privacy infringements and lack of secure methods for electronic transactions has until now been holding electronic commerce back. Cryptographic methods are an essential part in securing electronic commerce. Law enforcement agencies and national security organizations fear, however, that widespread use of strong encryption will impede their work substantially. This thesis analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of strong encryption and how the balance of the conflicting interests has been dealt with in the OECD Cryptography Policy Guidelines. Moreover, shows the thesis how the OECD Cryptography Policy Guidelines have been implemented and makes suggestions on how the guidelines should be implemented.

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This thesis combines the gravity model with Dunning’s four motivations and three control variables for Chinese outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI), and provides an empirical country level analysis on the determinants of Chinese OFDI in 34 OECD countries from 2003 to 2010. I find that resource-seeking motivation is a determinant of Chinese OFDI; the market-seeking motive is shown insignificant influence on Chinese OFDI; the strategic asset-seeking motivation of Chinese OFDI is not supported due to its unexpected negative sign. Moreover, the efficiency seeking motivation was not considered in previous studies due to low labor cost in China. In this thesis, by using real labor cost as a proxy, I prove that Chinese OFDI is not driven by efficiency seeking motive.

Begreppet kapital har under det senaste årtiondet kommit att syfta till mer än bara fast kapital i form av rena pengar. Idag inrymmer detta begrepp även humankapitalet som är något individer kan bygga upp genom att utbilda sig. Detta humankapital har visat sig vara lukrativt att investera i. En investering i utbildning leder alltså till ett ökat humankapital vilket i sin tur leder till ekonomisk tillväxt. Denna studie ämnar att empiriskt bevisa om detta stämmer med hjälp av data från 2010-2015 för OECD- länderna. En tvärsnittsstudie genomförs med hjälp av en regressionsmodell som kontrollerar för variablerna utbildning, hälsa, investering i teknologi, populationstillväxt, initial BNP, handel. Teorierna om det positiva sambandet mellan utbildning och tillväxt konfirmeras iochmed denna studie, vilken bygger på de allra senaste siffrorna gällande OECD-länderna. Studien visar att det finns ett samband mellan antalet utbildningsår ekonomisk tillväxt per capita.