transition metals

• Competition Effects and Terms of Trade Effects of Exchange Rates and International Prices: Evidence for Germany

The effects of the latest period of Euro appreciation from 2006 to 2007 on the German economy, especially on exports, are cushioned, in the short run, by the regional pattern of foreign buyers, invoicing practices and hedging activities, enterprises' favorable cost development and their currently comfortable profit situation. In the longer run, volume effects (competition effects) may be expected to occur owing to the incomplete pricing-to-market of exporters and importers. Purchasing power effects on real incomes must also be taken into account. Although these two effects have, in some years, had a rather powerful impact on real income growth, their overall impact was virtually neutral on average over the 1993-2007 observation period. [PUB ABSTRACT]

... Central and East European countries in transition have given a new boost to the world trade. As a co... prices for computers, paper products, metals, machinery, electrical equipment and petroleum pro...

• Aussenwirtschaft; Zeitschrift für internationale Wirtshaftsbeziehungen
• Vol. 63 Num. 4, Décembre 2008

• A gift of art for the United Nations: on joining the United Nations, Switzerland takes some soothing and classy Swiss art and architecture to the main UN building in New York--a place that has seen many a high profile diplomats in action.

... for these are mostly precious stones and metals, such as gold, white gold and diamonds. Other mate... these two projects smoothly made the transition from concept to implementation, the third one--the...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2004, Mai 2004