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Growth model change in emerging economies: sectorial loci of growth and politics /
No full textThe article contributes to an ongoing debate in comparative political economy on the integration of the demand and supply sides in growth model (GM) analysis. In particular, the article focuses on the characteristics of export-led GMs in emerging economies and addresses questions of GM change. The article makes two contributions. First, for capturing differences between countries that adopt export-led growth, the article introduces the concept of a sectoral locus of growth. Second, the article links GM change to the interaction of politics and sectoral transformations that a country accumulated during the preceding GM. The article presents empirical support for its arguments from the cases of Estonia and Lithuania, which both recovered from the Global Financial Crisis by shifting from debt-led to export-led growth based, however, on different sectoral loci of growth: exports of low-quality manufacturing and services in Lithuania and exports of dynamic services in Estonia
Valdant energijos išteklių kainų krizę: nuo operacinio atsako prie politikos kaitos
Full text linkThe paper examines government responses to the recent energy price crisis in the context of the polycrisis in Lithuania. It adopts a framework which links these responses to the response paradigm followed by the government comprised of two layers: the crisis management paradigm, and the policy paradigm specific to a policy field. The paper explores how these two layers evolved in the energy sector given the polycrisis and historical contexts, and how they interacted in shaping the operational and strategic policy responses to the energy crisis. The paper shows that, to manage the crisis, the government adopted a paradigm based on activist state intervention and principles of fast and simple horizontal relief measures for households and businesses, which is an approach that proved effective during the earlier coronavirus pandemic. In addition, the crisis management paradigm had a clear strategic component in the form of price and investment incentives for the more aggressive expansion of domestic renewable energy sources-based energy generation capacities. While favourable conditions for this strategic component came from EU-wide attempts to cope with the climate crisis, the paper also links it to an energy crisis-provoked shift in the energy policy paradigm among Lithuanian political leaders, which altered the way energy security is perceived. If, prior to the crisis, energy security was mainly perceived as a redirection of energy flows from Russia to the EU, during and after the crisis it started to be increasingly viewed as full energy independence, achieved through the technological transformation of the whole energy system.Straipsnyje analizuojamas Lietuvos vyriausybės atsakas į pastarųjų metų energijos išteklių kainų krizę daugialypės krizės kontekste. Jame pasitelkiamas koncepcinis modelis susieja šį atsaką su vyriausybės pasirinkta atsako paradigma, sudaryta iš dviejų lygmenų: krizės valdymo paradigmos ir konkrečiai politikos sričiai būdingos politikos paradigmos. Straipsnyje analizuojama, kaip šie du lygmenys formavosi energetikos sektoriuje, atsižvelgiant į daugialypės krizės ir istorinį kontekstus, taip pat kaip jų sąveika formavo operacinį ir strateginį politikos atsaką į energetikos išteklių kainų krizę. Tyrimas atskleidžia, kad vyriausybė, siekdama suvaldyti krizę, vadovavosi aktyvistine valstybės intervencijos paradigma, pagrįsta greito veikimo ir lengvai įgyvendinamomis horizontaliomis paramos namų ūkiams ir verslui priemonėmis, pasiteisinusiomis ankstesnės COVID-19 pandemijos metu. Tačiau krizės valdymo paradigma turėjo ir aiškų strateginį komponentą, pasireiškusį kaip paskatos investicijoms į spartesnę energijos gamybos iš vietinių atsinaujinančių energijos išteklių plėtra. Nors šiam komponentui palankias sąlygas sudarė visos Europos Sąjungos pastangos spręsti klimato kaitos krizę, straipsnyje jis taip pat siejamas su energijos išteklių kainų krizės išprovokuotu Lietuvos energetikos politikos paradigmos pokyčiu, pakeitusiu energetinio saugumo suvokimą: iki krizės energetinis saugumas daugiausia buvo traktuojamas kaip energijos srautų iš Rusijos pakeitimas srautais iš Europos Sąjungos, o krizės metu ir po jos jis vis dažniau imtas suprasti kaip visiška energetinė nepriklausomybė, pasiekiama visos energetikos sistemos technologinės transformacijos būdu
Vidutinių pajamų spąstai Baltijos šalyse: bendri iššūkiai, skirtingos strategijos
Full text linkThe paper contributes to further advancing research on the middle-income trap in the Baltic States. It argues, first, that while the Baltic States have already surpassed income levels associated with the middle-income trap and continue converging with advanced economies, they still might face risks of the middle-income trap defined as a difficulty to move into higher value-added positions of the value chain. Second, the paper demonstrates that over the course of recent transformations, growth models of the Baltic States have become increasingly divergent with differences between Estonia and Lithuania being most pronounced. Third, it is argued, that growth model differences also imply different risks associated with the middle-income trap. Estonia faces a risk that its leapfrogging into specialisation of ICT-based services remains premature and incapable to deliver productivity levels comparable to those of advanced economies. Yet, Lithuania faces a risk of being incapable to upgrade its large manufacturing sector. Instead, it risks continuously sustaining labour-intensive export-led growth and further taking advantage of cost-competitiveness by diversifying into new industries while still performing lower value-added activities in them.Straipsnis analizuoja vidutinių pajamų spąstus Baltijos šalyse. Jame formuluojami trys argumentai. Pirma, teigiama, kad nors Baltijos šalys jau viršijo pajamų lygį, siejamą su vidutinių pajamų spąstais, ir toliau konverguoja su išsivysčiusių šalių ekonomikomis, jos vis dar gali susidurti su vidutinių pajamų spąstų grėsme, apibrėžiama kaip sunkumas užimti aukštesnės vertės pozicijas vertės grandinėje. Antra, straipsnis atskleidžia, kad dėl pastarojo meto transformacijų Baltijos šalyse susiformavo labai skirtingi augimo modeliai, o skirtumai tarp Estijos ir Lietuvos tapo ryškiausi. Trečia, argumentuojama, kad augimo modelio skirtumai suponuoja skirtingas vidutinių pajamų spąstų keliamas grėsmes. Estija gali susidurti su grėsme, kad jos šuolis į informacinėmis ir ryšio technologijomis grįstų paslaugų specializaciją yra per ankstyvas ir nebus pajėgus užtikrinti išsivysčiusioms šalims artimo našumo lygio. O Lietuvai gresia pavojus nepajėgti transformuoti savo didelio apdirbamosios gamybos sektoriaus, siekti išsaugoti augimą iš darbui ir ištekliams imlių ekonominių sektorių, taip pat toliau naudojantis kaštų konkurencingumo teikiamais pranašumais plėsti diversifikaciją į vis naujus ekonominius sektorius, tačiau juose vis vien užimant mažesnės pridėtinės vertės pozicijas
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Vidutinių pajamų spąstai Baltijos šalyse: bendri iššūkiai, skirtingos strategijos.
No full textThe paper contributes to further advancing research on the middle-income trap in the Baltic States. It argues, first, that while the Baltic States have already surpassed income levels associated with the middle-income trap and continue converging with advanced economies, they still might face risks of the middle-income trap defined as a difficulty to move into higher value-added positions of the value chain. Second, the paper demonstrates that over the course of recent transformations, growth models of the Baltic States have become increasingly divergent with differences between Estonia and Lithuania being most pronounced. Third, it is argued, that growth model differences also imply different risks associated with the middle-income trap. Estonia faces a risk that its leapfrogging into specialisation of ICT-based services remains premature and incapable to deliver productivity levels comparable to those of advanced economies. Yet, Lithuania faces a risk of being incapable to upgrade its large manufacturing sector. Instead, it risks continuously sustaining labour-intensive export-led growth and further taking advantage of cost-competitiveness by diversifying into new industries while still performing lower value-added activities in them
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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