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Hybride Ökonomien und nachhaltige Revolutionen
(2003)
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Petra Ilyes
- Die Forderung nach massivem Wandel in den 1990er Jahren wurde nach dem weltweiten Zusammenbruch der Technologiemärkte im Jahr 2001 auf ein neues Nachhaltigkeitsparadigma hin rekonfiguriert. Vorstellungen von radikalem Wandel wurden auf Möglichkeiten der Institutionalisierung von radikalem Wandel ohne Veränderungsfeindlichkeit überprüft. Das Konzept einer „nachhaltigen Revolution“ wurde entwickelt und gab Input in die Logik globaler und nationaler Entwicklungsdiskurse. Mit dem Entstehen einer neuen vernetzten globalen Ökonomie in den 1990er Jahren (Castells 2000) wurden neue Informationstechnologien zunehmend als Schlüssel zu weltweit verteilten Wissensrepositorien betrachtet und galten in Schwellenländern und sich neu industrialisierenden Ländern als Möglichkeit, endlich „auf die gleiche Ebene zu gelangen wie andere Länder“ (Anderson 1997b). Es herrschte die Überzeugung, dass, zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte, „weniger entwickelte“ Länder eine reale Chance hatten, mit den herrschenden Wirtschaftsmächten gleichzuziehen. Eine Revolution war im Gange: die „IT-Revolution“. Die informationstechnologische Revolution bedurfte – anders als die industrielle Revolution – nur geringer individueller Investitionen, um die sich bietenden neuen Potentiale anzuzapfen. Informationstechnologie entwickelte sich rasant zu einem globalen wirtschaftlichen Sektor, der vielen neue Beteiligungsmöglichkeiten bot. Zum Einstieg benötigte man nicht viel: Talent zum Programmieren und einen Computer. Die Vorteile zeigten sich für viele also auf einer ganz konkreten Ebene, und es erschien möglich, das Leben von Individuen ganz unmittelbar zu verbessern. Eine viel größere Anzahl an Gesellschaften und Individuen als je zuvor, so die Einschätzung, konnte von den Vorteilen dieser neuen „Revolution“ profitieren. ...
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Chronik der Bibliotheksschule in Frankfurt am Main - Fachhochschule für Bibliothekswesen
(2003)
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Franz Fischer
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Sailing in troubled waters : drinking water provision in Timisoara
(2003)
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Enikö Baga
- After more than a decade of post-socialist transition, transition theories are increasingly criticised for their inability to grasp the new post-socialist reality. However, even in the light of political, economic, social and cultural restructuring processes taking place on a global scale, the structural legacies of socialist and pre-socialist development are not erased. On the contrary, they continue to play an important role by filtering the impact of global tendencies upon post-socialist societies. With reference to a case study from the Romanian city of Timisoara I will address in the following the ambivalencies connected to the efforts of local elites in the process of implementing global-level requirements in a post-socialist environment.
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Overbidding in fixed rate tenders - an empirical assessment of alternative explanations
(2003)
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Dieter Nautz
Jörg Oechssler
- This paper investigates various theories explaining banks´ overbidding in the fixed rate tenders of the European Central Bank (ECB). Using auction data from both the Bundesbank and the ECB, we show that none of the theories can on its own explain the observed overbidding. This implies that the proposed new rules by the ECB, aimed at neutralizing interest rate expectations, would not eliminate overbidding if the rationing rule in the fixed rate tenders remains unchanged. JEL - Klassifikation: D44 , E32
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Bidder behavior in repo auctions without minimum bid rate : evidence from the Bundesbank
(2003)
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Tobias Linzert
Dieter Nautz
Jörg Breitung
- A distinguishing feature of the ECB’s monetary policy setup is the preannouncement of a minimum bid rate in its weekly repo auctions. However, whenever interest rates are expected to decline, the minimum bid rate is viewed as too high and banks refrain from bidding, severely impeding the ECB’s money market management. To shed more light on banks’ underbidding, we perform a panel analysis of the bidder behavior in the repo auctions of the Bundesbank where no minimum bid rate was set. Our results indicate that neither bank’s participation nor the submitted bid amount is significantly affected by an expected rate cut. This suggests that abandoning the minimum bid rate might increase the efficiency of the ECB’s money market management. JEL-Classification : C23, D44, E52
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Ambivalent elites and conservative modernizers : studying sideways in transnational contexts
(2003)
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Petra Ilyes
- Spacially dispersed transnational professional communities can be perceived of as cultural formations living in a global frame of reference, transgressing existing political and cultural boundaries. In their capacity as members of local technical and knowledgebased elites, they take part in circulating and connecting cultural meanings that are both locally produced, and continuously re-working non- local flows. I argue that those elites can be described as actors at cultural interfaces, taking part in shaping and mediating social change. The aim is twofold: one, to point to mutually opposed tendencies, and ambivalences in the framework of a „culture of change“, and two, to look into the question how such situations and groups can be methodologically approached.
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Freedom of choice or force of circumstance? : Eastern European sex-workers in the Republic of Cyprus
(2003)
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Ramona Lenz
- This paper focuses on Eastern European migrants who, since the beginning of the 1990s, are entering the Republic Cyprus as “artistes”. This is a visa permit status as well as an euphemism for short-term work permits in the local sex industry. In addition to exploring the migrational experiences of these women and their living and working conditions in the Republic of Cyprus, the paper reconstructs, empirically and analyt ically, the connection between immigration and the local sex industry. Here, several categories of social actors and institutions in Cyprus are actively involved. The rhetoric of government representatives, entrepreneurs and clients in the sex business on the one hand is contrasted with the discourse of local NGO representatives concerned with immigrants’ rights on the other hand. The paper comes to the conclusion that all of these discursive positions ultimately do not do justice to the complex process of decisionmaking that women undergo who migrate into the sex industry. Either, freedom of choice is emphasized – such as by entrepreneurs and the government – or the domination of women – as in the public statements of the NGO. In order to analyze the ambivalent tension between freedom of choice and submission to force by which the women’s decision is characterized, the author employs Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality, which describes forms of political regulation that use the individual’s freedom of action as an instrument to exercise power.
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Zurück zur "Imperialen Präsidentschaft"? : Parteien, Präsident und Kongress post-9/11
(2003)
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Söhnke Schreyer
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Europäische Integration und Gesundheitspolitik
(2003)
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Rolf Schmucker
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Evaluation der Netto-Effekte von ABM in Deutschland : ein Matching-Ansatz mit Berücksichtigung von regionalen und individuellen Unterschieden
(2003)
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Marco Caliendo
Reinhard Hujer
Stephan L. Thomsen
