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Effects of international climate policy for India: Evidence from a national and global CGE model

Weitzel, Matthias; Ghosh, Joydeep; Peterson, Sonja; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

In order to reach the two degree target it is necessary to control CO2 emissions also in fast growing emerging economies such as India. The question is how the Indian economy would be affected by e.g. including the country into an international climate regime. Existing analyses with either a...

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EU Integration and its Implications for Asian Economies – What we Know and What Not

Langhammer, Rolf J.; Schweickert, Rainer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006

In this paper, we analyse effects of EU integration on Asian countries. Since the early 1990s, it is especially the trade creation effect of monetary integration (so-called Rose effect) which is heavily debated in the literature. Recent papers seem to indicate that the Rose effect seems to be...

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A tale of two countries: A comparison of the aggregate effects of sectoral reallocation in the United States and Germany

Reicher, Christopher - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

This paper compares the aggregate effects of sectoral reallocation in the United States and Western Germany using a stochastic volatility model of sectoral employment growth. Reallocative shocks have no effect on the natural rate of unemployment in either country, and there is mild evidence that...

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The aggregate effects of long run sectoral reallocation

Reicher, Christopher - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

In this paper, I estimate a series of long run reallocative shocks to sectoral employment using a stochastic volatility model of sectoral employment growth for the United States from 1960 through 2011. Reallocative shocks (which primarily measure construction and technology busts) have little...

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Government Activity and Economic Growth – One Size Fits All?

Beckmann, Joscha; Endrich, Marek; Schweickert, Rainer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

This study investigates the role of government activity in economic growth, arguing that economic systems are important and that, therefore, one size of government does not fit all countries. Taking a panel of 111 countries over the years from 1971 to 2010, we consider clusters of economic...

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Emissions embodied in Chinese exports taking into account the special export structure of China

Weitzel, Matthias; Ma, Tao - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Quantification of CO2 emissions embodied in China's trade is important for an informed debate on whom to blame for the … report emissions embodied in Chinese imports used for intermediate production of exports by combining calculations for China …

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Determinants of Technology Transfer through CDM: the Case of China

Weitzel, Matthias; Liu, Wan-Hsin; Vaona, Andrea - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

China. China is by far the largest host country of CDM projects and it is therefore crucial to understand the factors that …

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Multi-model analyses of the economic and energy implications for China and India in a post-Kyoto climate regime

Johansson, Daniel J.A.; Lucas, Paul L.; Weitzel, Matthias; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

systems development in China and India. The analysis uses a framework that harmonizes baseline developments and soft … convergence of per capita CO2 emissions with emissions trading. Economic and energy implications for China and India vary across … nuclear energy. Concerning economic impacts China bears in general a higher cost than India, as China benefits less from …

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External Drivers of Institutional Change in Central Asia – Regional Integration Schemes and the Role of Russia and China

Schweickert, Rainer; Melnykovska, Inna; Plamper, Hedwig - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

Russia and China are assumed to challenge democratization and to promote autocracy. In a first step, we analyze Central … Asia as the most-likely case, considering both Russia and China as relevant external actors. We develop a concept for our … analysis based on the different strategies of Russia (dominance) and China (doing-business) towards the region and present the …

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Foreign direct investment, access to finance, and innovation activity in Chinese enterprises

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

This paper investigates the link between inward FDI and innovation activity in China, using a very comprehensive and …

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