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Climate change mitigation requires to replace preexisting carbon-intensive capital with different types of cleaner capital. Coal power and inefficient thermal engines may be phased out by gas power and efficient thermal engines or by renewable power and electric vehicles. We derive the optimal...
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The "Geography of Innovation" is based on the desire to give empirical foundations to the explanations behind the … pronounced spatial polarisation of the innovation activities. It focuses on an attempt to measure the spatial dimension of … survey this empirical literature in order to highlight the main results interesting for the innovation policy. This analysis …
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The paper applies the collective model to the analysis of intra-household inequality using self-reported income scales. Starting from a collective model including household production, our key assumption is that the income level that household members report corresponds to their true income...
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The paper applies the collective model to the analysis of intra-household inequality using self-reported income scales and provides a test for its assumptions. We assume a correspondence between the income level that household members report and their true income sharing. Using Russian data, we...
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Despite the multiplicity of research on the surge of the financial industry the world over, little is done to understand the national context shaping the objectives and designs of this economic sector. The overall image that emerges from the literature is that globalisation and liberalisation of...
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This study deals with history of important state institution in late Russian Empire - factory inspection. Such aspects of institutional development as evolution of legislative regulations, growth of staff, and complication of functions (and particularly, mediation in labour conflicts) are...
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of the modes of education in Russia. Social psychology is a science born the last century and also a status of the social … conscience of people, forged historically on the basis of proper cultural artifacts. In Russia education is mainly the process of …
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This paper examines the exporting behaviour of Russian manufacturers by considering the effects of firm characteristics and external conditions. Two measures of export behaviour are considered: the decision to export and the share of exports to developed markets. I find that specific exporting...
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The Russian gas sector is undergoing significant changes which is opening the way for an original reform. Because of the particular institutional and economic context of the country, this reorganisation is not taking place along the lines of the de-integrated model of the EU. It is characterised...
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This text examines the history of Latin American studies in Russia, from the times of the Soviet Union to the present …
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