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Conflicting Patterns of Thought in the Russian Debate on Transition: 1992-2002

Zweynert, Joachim - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2006

The present study is a continuation of an earlier paper by the same author dealing with the economic debates in the Soviet Union between 1987 and 1991 (HWWA Discussion Paper 324; Europe-Asia Studies vol. 58, no. 2). After there had been a paradigm shift in Russian economics around 1990, in the...

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Baseline Determination at Government Discretion Multi-Project Baselines for the First Track of Joint Implementation?

Schmitz, Simon; Michaelowa, Axel - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2003

The ?first track? of Joint Implementation under the Kyoto Protocol gives host and investor countries total freedom in choosing a baseline for a project reducing or sequestering greenhouse gases. This is due to the fact that an overly generous granting of emission credits leads to a corresponding...

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Measuring the Potential of Unilateral CDM : A Pilot Study

Raubenheimer, Stefan; Michaelowa, Axel; Jahn, Michael; … - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) was originally seen as an instrument with a bilateral character where an entity from an industrialised country invests in a project in a developing country (DC). Also, multilateral funds were envisaged that would bundle investments to spread project risks....

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Transfer of Institutions: Actors and Constraints - The Russian Case in a Global Context

Oleinik, Anton - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2005

into ?Westernization?, the transfer of Western institutions to backward countries. As the title suggests, the paper deals … with the institutional problems of such a transfer of institutions, and with the constraints, imposed on the key actors of … congruence, or the ?elective affinity?, between the models of power relationships on which imported and traditional institutions …

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Shared Mental Models, Catch-up Development and Economic Policy-Making : The Case of Germany after World War II and Its Significance for Contemporary Russia

Zweynert, Joachim - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004

The paper deals with the connection between politically induced catch-up development, cultural and intellectual traditions and economic order in Germany and Russia. It is argued that in the history of both countries we encounter significant structural parallels, including the totalitarian...

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Political Risk, Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment

Busse, Matthias; Hefeker, Carsten - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2005

The paper explores the linkages between political risk, institutions and foreign direct investment inflows. Using … and institutions are employed in the empirical analysis. The results show that government stability, the absence of …

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Democracy and FDI

Busse, Matthias - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2003

empirically the complex relationship between democracy and FDI in a systematic way, using cross-sectional and panel data analysis …

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Development Aid and the CDM - How to interpret "Financial Additionality"

Dutschke, Michael; Michaelowa, Axel - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2003

International climate negotiations have specified that projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) should not lead to a ?diversion? of official development assistance (ODA). It is however unchallenged that ODA can be used in capacity building for the CDM. Diversion can be interpreted in...

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Financing Structures for CDM Projects in India and Capacity Building Options for EU-Indo Collaboration

Krey, Matthias; Michaelowa, Axel; Deodhar, Vinay - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2003

the Indian finance sector has to be suitably geared up. So far, banks and financial institutions have not developed …

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CDM Potential of Dairy Sector in India

Michaelowa, Axel; Sirohi, Smita - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004

Among the co-operative mechanisms established under the Kyoto Protocol, the Clean Development Mechanism is the only one, which has the potential to assist developing countries in achieving sustainable development by promoting environmentally friendly investment from industrialized country...

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