Criticality and strong intermittency in the lorentz channel (2012)
Journal Article

We demonstrate the emergence of criticality due to power-law cross correlations in an ensemble of noninteracting particles propagating in an infinite Lorentz channel. The origin of these interparticle long-range correlations is the intermittent dynam... Read More about Criticality and strong intermittency in the lorentz channel.

Culture-based development: Empirical evidence for Germany (2012)
Journal Article

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive concept for the role of culture in economic growth. Design/methodology/approach - The paper overviews the culture based development (CBD) concept and its precise definition of culture... Read More about Culture-based development: Empirical evidence for Germany.

Financialized corporate strategies and restructuring of global supply chains (2012)
Journal Article

Industrial organization and Inter-firm relations within vertically disintegrated and spatially dispersed production systems emerged as a burgeoning area of research in the 1990s and 2000s across what might be broadly considered as development studies... Read More about Financialized corporate strategies and restructuring of global supply chains.

A consistent approach for the treatment of Fermi acceleration in time-dependent billiards (2012)
Journal Article

The standard description of Fermi acceleration, developing in a class of time-dependent billiards, is given in terms of a diffusion process taking place in momentum space. Within this framework, the evolution of the probability density function (PDF)... Read More about A consistent approach for the treatment of Fermi acceleration in time-dependent billiards.

Students' perceptions of economics: Identifying demand for further study (2012)
Journal Article

Most university departments aspire to increase their quantity of students. The objective of this empirical study is to ascertain whether it is possible to identify students who would demand more economics study. Using data on student perceptions of e... Read More about Students' perceptions of economics: Identifying demand for further study.

Whither corporate Russia (2012)
Journal Article

Using firm-level information obtained from the Russian Trading System stock exchange from 1998 through 2006, we estimate growth performance of the Russian corporate sector. We find consistently improving growth, and note that higher growth performanc... Read More about Whither corporate Russia.

Convergence across Spanish provinces: Cross-section and pairwise evidence (2012)
Journal Article

Distribution free statistics are employed to investigate biennial income per capita convergence across 52 Spanish provinces over the period 1955-1997. Based upon ideas of concordance and discordance that capture convergence and divergence properties,... Read More about Convergence across Spanish provinces: Cross-section and pairwise evidence.

Global commodity chains and global value chains (2012)
Book Chapter

This entry draws out some of the key features of GCC/GVC analyses and other closely related approaches, not only to appraise them critically in and of themselves but also by way of pointing to their contribution to the understanding of contemporary c... Read More about Global commodity chains and global value chains.

Does pluralism in economics education make better educated, happier students? A qualitative analysis (2012)
Journal Article

Working poor, labour market and social protection in the EU: A comparative perspective (2012)
Journal Article