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The volume From Periphery to Centre. The Image of Europe at the Eastern Border of Europe gathers the papers presented … distances between centre and periphery and their common traits as well, as they are revealed in the various images of Europe and … propose a double perspective: on the one hand periphery viewed from the centre and on the other periphery as it sees itself …
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An examination of the current impasse in climate policy and the potential steps nations can take to reduce greenhouse gases.
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This volume investigates the potential performance of the Kyoto Protocol's international trading mechanisms in the presence of diverse types of domestic greenhouse policy instruments.
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, and largely concerned with scientific evidence of harm to human health and the environment. This contrasts with the public …
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Since its origin, ecotourism development has been at the centre of controversial and heated debates within the …
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The paper confronts different aspects of decentralization: fiscal decentralization, post-constitutional regulatory decentralization, and constitutional decentralization – using a single dataset from Russian Federation of the Yeltsin period as a politically asymmetric country. It finds...
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’. Fixed exchange rates are typically stable and floating exchange rates are volatile, but macro phenomena are regime … international finance is explaining these cross-regime differences in exchange rate volatility. The evidence suggests that a switch …
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Fixed exchange rates are less volatile than floating rates. The volatility of macroeconomic variables, such as money and output, does not change very much across exchange rate regimes, however. This suggests that exchange rate models based only on macroeconomic fundamentals are unlikely to be...
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This paper uses a panel of data from 22 countries between 1967 and 1992 to explore the trade-off between the `Holy Trinity' of fixed exchange rates, independent monetary policy, and capital mobility. I use: flexible- and sticky-price monetary exchange rate models to parameterize monetary...
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Inflation targeting seems to have a small but positive effect on the synchronization of business cycles; countries that target inflation seem to have cycles that move slightly more closely with foreign cycles. Thus the advent of inflation targeting does not explain the decoupling of global...
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