by Poon Yeuk Wan, Tsang Fei. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 54-55). / Acknowledgements --- p.i / Abstract --- p.iii / Table of Contents --- p.iv / List of Tables --- p.vi / List of Appendix --- p.vii / Chapter Chapter1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Project Objective --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Project Structure --- p.2 / Chapter 1.3 --- Data --- p.3 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Emerging Markets´ؤ-An Overview --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1 --- Latin America --- p.5 / Argentina --- p.5 / Brazil --- p.7 / Chile --- p.7 / Colombia --- p.8 / Mexico --- p.8 / Peru --- p.9 / Venezuela --- p.9 / Chapter 2.2 --- Eastern Europe --- p.10 / Czech Republic --- p.10 / Poland --- p.10 / Slovakia --- p.11 / Hungary --- p.11 / Russia --- p.11 / Chapter 2.3 --- Middle East --- p.12 / Israel --- p.12 / Jordan --- p.12 / Chapter 2.4 --- Implication For Further Analysis --- p.13 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Analysis and Findings I: Descriptive Statistics Analysis --- p.14 / Chapter 3.1 --- Objective of Descriptive Statistic Analysis --- p.14 / Chapter 3.2 --- Findings --- p.16 / Eastern Europe --- p.16 / Latin America --- p.16 / Middle East --- p.17 / Chapter 3.3 --- Conclusion --- p.18 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Analysis and Findings II: Day-of-the- Week (Monday effect) Test --- p.19 / Chapter 4.1 --- Objective --- p.19 / Chapter 4.2 --- Literature Review --- p.19 / Chapter 4.3 --- Methodology --- p.21 / Chapter 4.4 --- Data --- p.23 / Chapter 4.5 --- Analysis --- p.24 / Chapter 4.6 --- Empirical findings --- p.25 / Chapter I. --- The equality of return test --- p.25 / Eastern Europe --- p.26 / Latin America --- p.26 / Middle East --- p.26 / Overall --- p.27 / Local currency versus US currency --- p.27 / Chapter II. --- Comparison of Monday return with returns of other days within the week --- p.27 / Chapter l. --- Without exchange rate effect --- p.28 / Chapter 4.7 --- Monday effect一-an overview --- p.31 / Comparison by region --- p.31 / Eastern Europe --- p.31 / Latin America --- p.31 / Middle East --- p.32 / The effect of exchange rate --- p.32 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Analysis And Findings III: Correlation Analysis --- p.33 / Chapter 5.1 --- Literature Review --- p.33 / Chapter 5.2 --- Objective --- p.35 / Chapter 5.3 --- Methodology --- p.35 / Chapter 5.4 --- Findings --- p.38 / Chapter I --- Correlations Within Regions --- p.38 / Eastern Europe --- p.33 / Latin America --- p.40 / Middle East --- p.42 / Chapter II. --- Correlation Among Regions --- p.43 / Eastern Europe vs. Latin America --- p.43 / Latin America vs. Middle East --- p.44 / Eastern Europe vs. Middle East --- p.45 / Chapter III. --- Correlations with the United States --- p.46 / US vs. Eastern Europe --- p.46 / US vs. Latin America --- p.46 / US vs. Middle East --- p.47 / Chapter 5.5 --- Conclusion --- p.43 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Conclusions and Implications --- p.49 / Implications on market integration --- p.52 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.54 / APPENDIX --- p.56

This thesis examines the use of design in the construction of Poland's national identity at the international exhibitions in the Cold War period. It is the first comprehensive study of Polish design discourse in any language that rests at the crossroads of design studies and cultural history. Based on original archival material, both written and visual, and oral interviews this thesis tracks the process of construction of Imagined Poland alongside the development of the design discipline during the three post-war decades. It charts the trajectory of these two narratives and examines their critical reception. In doing so this research casts new light on the relationship between design and political history in the Cold War Europe. However, it is not a thesis about designed objects or spaces per se, but rather about their discursive qualities and the way that they were put in work to narrate the nation. Versatile and embedded in the cultural, economic and social contexts, design understand here in its broadest sense proved to be well suited to this role: it allowed political authorities, trade representatives and creative intelligentsia to address timely issues on their agendas. This thesis closely examines eight exhibitions organised in the Soviet Union, Italy, Belgium and Poland. The narratives of these events, as the thesis argues, reflected the state's changing self-understanding towards international public opinion. It indicates that although Polish exhibitions were occasionally adjusted to the particular location, their themes were largely shaped in response to the political developments at home and in the Eastern Europe. By using exhibitions as a framework, this thesis offers a new perspective to study Polish international modernism and suggests a limited impact of ideology on the development of professional networks. Subsequently it provides a nuanced reading of Poland's relationship with the Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc and the rest of Europe beyond reductive paradigm of totalitarianism.

The 1990s were characterized by severe turbulence in the global economy. Economic and financial crises occurred in Latin America, Middle and Eastern Europe and Asia. This analysis distinguishes between the two socioeconomic criteria "transitional" and "emerging" region. Transitional countries are former centrally planned socialist economies and emerging countries former agricultural-oriented classical developing economies with mostly a history of military or some other kind of autocratic dictatorship. The resources for the analysis are data sets regarding investment, exchange rate behavior, government finance, international liabilities of monetary authorities and inflation. The study reveals macroeconomic patterns associated with economic development in each socioeconomic region. It is shown that similar patterns are responsible for successful and non-successful performance in each region. A comparison of different regions shows many parallels between emerging economies, but only little similarity between transitional economies.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 116-124). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

Zugl.: Konstanz, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 2005

Die Erforschung des städtischen Kirchenmusiklebens zählt zu den Desiderata der Musikwissenschaft.

This study attempts to examine the international debt crisis in the 1980s from a primarily political perspective, to permit a greater understanding of the interaction between economics and politics in the course of crisis management The process of dealing with the current international debt crisis provides an pat case for investigation of how economic concerns affect political outcomes, and how political factors influence economic outcomes, and how political factors influence economic policies. This study concentrates on the two regions of Latin America and Eastern Europe where the debt crisis started. The study emphasizes that the international debt crisis started. The study emphasizes that the international debt problem has been increasingly politicized in the contemporary international relations, and that its solution, in addition to the economic aspects, calls for political willingness by all parties concerned.

By looking at the reactions of Russian actors regarding the development of the Belt and Road Initiative of the People’s Republic of China in Central and Eastern Europe, this dissertation presents new theoretical and empirical findings that can be used extensively in the fields of Area and Global Studies, as well as practical policymaking. In this context, the Russian Federation’s foreign policy in the region is understood as cumulative activity and strategy developed by the government of Russia regarding the relationship with other countries that are being impacted by multiple internal and external factors. In order to understand a complex relationship between Russian, Chinese, and Central-Eastern European actors, this study employs uniquely created methods focusing on analyzing the reactions of the relevant Russian policymakers, as well as literature, documents, and statistical data. The reactions are also collected via extensive reflection of interviews and primary source material. In this framework, the areas of Russian interests directly related to and operationalized in Central-Eastern Europe are identified, and those affected by the Belt and Road Initiative the most are researched. The study’s results highlight the many discourses and contradictions when contrasting portrayal and perceptions against statistical data. Since none of these areas were analyzed under these circumstances before, many characterizations about the nature of the Initiative, perception of the actors’ behavior, understanding of the positioning of Russia within contemporary geopolitical realities, and many other aspects have been broadened. That leads to a better comprehension of the mechanisms and networks between the companies and political actors based in the Russian Federation, the People's Republic of China, and Central-Eastern Europe, the effects of their interdependencies and relationship, and general international relations. This research demonstrated a tension of interests within the Russian expert community when assigning securitization to the Belt and Road Initiative sections that affect Russia and East-Central Europe. They are recognized as intertwined with internal politics, economics, geopolitical competitiveness, and international strategy and are thus appropriately employed when reacting to and debating them.

Doctorat en sciences sociales, politiques et économiques / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

The factor determinants of industry and investment location patterns in transition economies can be expected to differ from those frequently observed in developed countries. Historically, centrally planned economies have suffered from inefficient industrial policies that are generally assumed to have had distortive effects on spatial location of industry. The process of economic transition and regional integration that followed the demise of socialist structures is assumed to have subsequently affected the geographical distribution of economic activities within and between countries of the region. Given the above this thesis capitalises on the quasi-natural experiment setting to further explore industry and investment location decisions in transition economies. In particular, the research presented here follows three main objectives. First, it intends to provide a comprehensive picture of changes in industry location patterns over time. Second, it aims to contribute to the debate on factor determinants of industry location at various levels of spatial aggregation. Third, it seeks to explore location determinants of foreign direct investors in particular, given their pivotal role for economic development of transition economies. In all instances, the research is geared towards a better understanding of the role of institutional factors, such as reforms and policies, in affecting distribution of economic activity across space. Thus, the work conducted qualifies as a further contribution to the analysis of structural changes that have affected the economies under examination. In broad terms, the findings presented here point towards significant changes in spatial location patterns of industry and investments that are leading to increased polarisation of economic landscape over time. Nonetheless, we find evidence that certain institutional factors qualify as viable policy levers, thereby providing ample scope for policy makers to impact existing location patterns of economic activity.