In this article we compare recent developments in sexual attitudes and reported behaviour in St Petersburg, Finland and Sweden. In what respects did changes in sexual life in these countries seem to be converging in the 1990s, and what were the main differences? Which differences in post-socialist St Petersburg can be attributed to the cultural inertia of sexual practices and gender roles, and ...

We study the impact of environmental regulations on the patent activities for wind turbines between 1980 and 2008. We explicitly control for energy market liberalisation and take a potential interaction between liberalisation and policy instruments into account. We find a strong and highly significant effect of environmental tax revenues, which we regard as a proxy for the extent to which energ...

The liberalisation movement in European airlines industry was initiated in the late 1980s to create a more competitive environment. This has aimed to result in an increase in efficiency and productivity of the industry. The radical changes which have occurred since then have given risen to the need to evaluate the efficiency in the early phases of the liberalisation process. This study utilises...

Two recurring themes arise from this discussion. The first is that financial liberalisation looks to have been much more successful than appeared to be the case a decade ago. In 1991, the Reserve Bank devoted its entire Annual Conference to a stocktake of the benefits and costs of financial deregulation (see Macfarlane (1991)). While the various papers were able to point to some benefits, inclu...

This article challenges claims that liberalising state regulated markets in developing countries may induce lasting economic development. The analysis of the rise of tourism in Egypt during the last three decades suggests that the effects of liberalisation and structural adjustment are constrained by the neo-patrimonial character of the Egyptian political system. Since the decline of oil rent r...

The energy market liberalisation process in Europe is increasingly focused on electricity market integration and related cross border issues. This signals that the liberalisation of national electricity markets is now closer to the long-term objective of a single European energy market. The interface between the national electricity markets requires physical interconnections and technical arran...

Innovation, mark-ups and the degree of trade openness vary substantially across sectors. This paper builds a multi-sector endogenous growth model to study the in‡uence of asymmetric trade liberalisation and sectoral di¤erences in the degree of product market competition on the e¤ect that trade has on R&D investments at a …rm level. I …nd that di¤erences in the degree of competition generate lar...

The contemporary globalisation project of which Baum writes rests on the promise that economic growth benefits all. Originally enforced through Structural Adjustment Programs’ trinity of privatisation, reduced public spending and increased trade liberalisation, it is the benefits of the latter that now dominate the “globalisation is good” argument. So dominant is this claim that it deserves clo...

Abstract. The neoliberal approach taken to the transition from socialism capitalism in six former Yugoslav republics has revealed its weaknesses all spheres of economic activities, including food production. These countries have lost sovereignty with respect regulating important national policy areas like trade and Liberalisation adversely affected economies by destroying many small-scale farme...