Privatization in a Post-Communist Economy: It Seems there are No Macroeconomic Effects

Beyond accession conditionality and negotiations: Privatization, trade dynamics and the political economy of early post-communist economic transition

Although the impact of the EU on the economic transformation of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is undisputed, contemporary causal explanations focus primarily on the impact of accession negotiations and conditionality on CEE transformation and, as such, are limited to the post-1997 period. This poses a challenging empirical puzzle, because, in terms of their pace of transition, the CEECs dist...

a Post - Communist Society

There are no Aspects

In this paper, we claim that a specialized aspect module is not required. Instead, we propose an expressive aspect-oriented composition mechanism which can be applied upon existing modules. At the design level, the CoCompose modeling framework is introduced which is based on Model Driven Development. CoCompose allows step-wise refinement from a high-level design to the lowest level design or co...

Are There Contagion Effects in It and Business Process Outsourcing?

We model the diffusion of IT outsourcing via announcements about IT outsourcing deals. We estimate a lognormal diffusion curve to test whether IT outsourcing follows a pure diffusion process or there are contagion effects involved. The methodology permits us to study the consequences of outsourcing events, especially mega-deals with IT contract amounts that exceeded US$ 1 billion. Mega-deals ac...

There Are No Particles, There Are Only Fields

Quantum foundations are still unsettled, with mixed effects on science and society. By now it should be possible to obtain consensus on at least one issue: Are the fundamental constituents fields or particles? As this paper shows, experiment and theory imply that unbounded fields, not bounded particles, are fundamental. This is especially clear for relativistic systems, implying that it's also ...