It is a great pleasure for me to welcome you to our annual Conference on European Economic Integration. The Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) has been hosting this event for many years, offering a forum for lively debates between distinguished panelists from national and international institutions, politics, banking and academia. I am glad that such a sizeable number of participants and spea...

4 Non-technical summary 5 7 2 10 2.1 Sectors and aggregation 10 2.2 Relative prices 11 2.3 Real exchange rate and sectoral productivity shocks 12 2.4 Nominal rigidity and aggregate supply 14 3 Autonomous monetary policy 15 4 The currency union 17 4.1 Determination of union-wide output and prices 18 4.2 Currency union’s welfare 19 4.3 Reference member state’s welfare 20 5 Relative performance an...

BACKGROUND The United States has been the country with the highest body mass indexes (BMIs; in kg/m(2)) at higher centiles, but research that compares the United States with other nations is lacking. OBJECTIVE To present a picture of global obesity and examine the shifts in BMI in children, I examined BMI data for men and women at the upper ends of the BMI distributions in Australia, China, t...

Early inMay, six weeks after the first case of Ebola virus disease had been confirmed in west Africa and rapidly spread into three of the poorest countries in the world, the director general of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, declared a public health emergency of international concern. It is “an extraordinary event and a public health risk to other states for which a coordinated r...

The increasing diversity of average growth rates and income levels across countries has generated a large literature on testing the income convergence hypothesis. Most countries in South-East Asia, particularly the five founding ASEAN member countries (ASEAN-5), have experienced substantial economic growth, with the pace of growth having varied substantially across countries. Recent empirical s...

Does the new technological paradigm based on information and communication technologies (ICTs) create new windows of opportunity or further obstacles for catching up countries? The paper discusses this question by taking neo-Schumpeterian long wave theory as the basic framework of analysis. According to this approach, the current rapid diffusion of the ICT-based paradigm marks the initial phase...

abnormalities [1-3]. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis was carried out using TUPLE region probe (from Kreatech Diagnostics, Netherland) on metaphase and interphase cells. Presence of two intact signals on chromosome 22 ruled out 22q11.2 deletion. Thus, chromosomal analysis was carried out using the GTG-banding technique and the patient was found to be tetrasomy for sex chromoso...

The Movement Assessment Battery for Children (MABC-2) is a functional test for identifying deficits in the motor performance of children. The test contains a ball-catching task that requires the children to catch a self-thrown ball with one hand. As the task can be executed with a variety of different catching strategies, it is assumed that the task success can also vary considerably. Even thou...