Does the new protectionsm really harm all trading countries?

The following article considers the effects triggered by exporting countries' reactions to the new protectionism. It demonstrates that if the analysis is broadened to take account of macro-economic interdependence the assessment of the trade interests, for instance, of “new” exporting countries such as the NICs must be revise

Sanctions under GATT article XIX versus voluntary export restraints

Voluntary export restraints play a substantial part in international trade today. This article compares the effects such restraints have upon certain exporting countries with the effect of sanctions applied under Article XIX of the GATT. It is shown that the microeconomic protectionism analysis used as a basis for the current debate on the reform of the GATT is unable to provide a conclusive answer as to which variant of protectionism would be preferable from the exporting economies' point of view. The article also indicates the direction in which existing research shortcomings can be reduced

Short-run effects of economic reforms in Eastern Economies

The policy of reform in the former Eastern Bloc countries is relying on introducing the mechanisms of the market economy. However, the process of putting such changes into practice with concrete measures has to overcome a number of impediments which have so far hardly been considered by the reformers. The impediments are partly generated by rigidities which are an inevitable aspect of the adjustment process from a planned to a market economy

The counter-effects of market regulation

Regulation can have counter-effects that work against the interests of those who advocate it, in both centrally-planned and market economies. Little research on these effects has been carried out so far, with the result that they have been ignored by policymakers

Wachsendes Problempotential von Jugendlichen ohne Hauptschulabschluß

In dem Beitrag wird untersucht, wie sich die Zahl der Schulabgänger ohne Hauptschulabschluss in den deutschen Ländern seit 1992 entwickelt hat. Die höheren Anteile in den neuen Ländern werden dazu führen, dass dort auch mehr Personen ohne Berufsabschluss bleiben werden

Strategic trade policy for Eastern Europe

The integration of the former state-trading countries into international free trade may, on the one hand, sensibly complement the reforms now under way towards their becoming market economies; on the other hand, this move harbours the risk of perpetuating and indeed aggravating the economic backwardness of those countries. The detrimental effects can be avoided if a product-cycle-oriented economic policy is pursued which makes a deliberate point of utilizing the relatively rich endowment of human capital available in these countries

Neo-protectionism and economic growth

The world economy is threatening to find itself in a vicious circle of escalating protectionism. Franz Peter Lang explains the dangers and consequences of this. Gary Banks argues that the “new protectionism” is not so much a temporary by-product of the recession as the external manifestation of internal domestic struggles between vested interests and the public interest, and pleads for the establishment of a “transparency institution”

Data Augmentation of Wearable Sensor Data for Parkinson's Disease Monitoring using Convolutional Neural Networks

While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been successfully applied to many challenging classification applications, they typically require large datasets for training. When the availability of labeled data is limited, data augmentation is a critical preprocessing step for CNNs. However, data augmentation for wearable sensor data has not been deeply investigated yet. In this paper, various data augmentation methods for wearable sensor data are proposed. The proposed methods and CNNs are applied to the classification of the motor state of Parkinson's Disease patients, which is challenging due to small dataset size, noisy labels, and large intra-class variability. Appropriate augmentation improves the classification performance from 77.54\% to 86.88\%.Comment: ICMI2017 (oral session