This paper investigates the motives and reasons behind the assistance programs to CEE countries from the perspective of the Swedish government, which was responsible for this kind of aid. How did Swedish government arrive at decisions regarding the technical assistance to CEE countries and changes therein? This paper is a follow-up on previous research by the authors on the Western assistance t...

Primary degree holders have extraordinarily low employment rates in Central and East European (CEE) countries, a bias that largely contributes to their low levels of aggregate employment. The paper looks at the possible role for skills mismatch in explaining this failure. The analysis is based on data from the IALS, an international skills survey conducted in 1994-98. Multiple choice models are...

94 A method for introducing standardized (simulated) patients into general practice consultations Jan-Joost Rethans, Riet Drop, Ferd Sturmans and Cees van der Veuten 97 Assessment of the performance of general practitioners by the use of standardized (simulated) patients an-Joost Rethans, Ferd Sturmans, Riet Drop and Cees van der Vleuten 100 Case finding in elderly people: validation of a posta...

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: C11 E32 E52 Keywords: New Keynesian models Small open economy Monetary policy Taylor rules Bayesian methods Using the Bayesian approach, a small open economy DSGE model was estimated using a sample of quarterly data for three Central and Eastern Europe economies, Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. The hypothesis that central banks react to exchange rat...

In the last decade, the prospect of accession of Central and East European countries (CEECs) to the European Union has given momentum to the discussion of their economic integration into the EU. Thus, academic studies have generally focused on variables at the macro level and are conducted in the light of quantitative methodologies in social sciences. This paper instead focuses mainly on the in...

In this paper, we consider a frictional contact problem with normal compliance. The problem is formulated as a variational inequality, and is shown to possess a unique solution. The nite element approximation is analyzed, with a Cee alike inequality proved. A major diiculty in actually solving the problem is caused by the presence of a non-diierentiable functional in the formulation of the prob...

The NK homeodomain factor Tinman is a crucial regulator of early mesoderm patterning and, together with the GATA factor Pannier and the Dorsocross T-box factors, serves as one of the key cardiogenic factors during specification and differentiation of heart cells. Although the basic framework of regulatory interactions driving heart development has been worked out, only about a dozen genes invol...