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Estimating the size of the potential market for all three flexibility mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol
Zhang, ZhongXiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
The Kyoto Protocol is the first international environmental agreement that sets legally binding greenhouse gas emissions targets and timetables for Annex I countries. It incorporates emissions trading and two project-based flexibility mechanisms, namely joint implementation and the clean...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616753
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Emotions and International Conflicts: Sociological, Evolutionary and Rational Views
Khalil, Elias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In March 2005, riots erupted in South Korea against Japan for claiming sovereignty over some rocky uninhabited islets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837321
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The Great Recession: a comparison of recession magnitudes in Europe, USA and Japan
Mazurek, Jiří - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In this article recession magnitudes in Europe, the USA and Japan during the Great Recession are compared. The … strongest recessions (of severe category) occurred in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, while recessions in Japan and the USA were …-1933 in the USA. Hence, comparisons of the Great Recession to the Great Depression in the literature are somewhat exaggerated. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258149
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International economic theory and politics: world structure before, during and after the early 21st Century Crisis
Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
system that then existed in the world, and (c) the transition from a uni-polar world, with the U.S.A. as the single center of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596380
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Managerialism and the Demise of the Big Three
Locke, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This essay is about the crisis of US automobile management and the difficulties that management educators and practitioners in America have had facing up to that crisis. It focuses on Detroit’s Big Three but it also looks at the role Japanese firms played in transferring JMS (Japanese...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514907
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National Innovation Systems and Regional Cooperation in Asia: Challenges and Strategies from a Study of China
Khan, Haider A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
-Pacific region with some references to Japan, Korea, Taiwan, India, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. I argue that while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260082
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Exploring Diversification Benefits in Asia-Pacific Equity Markets
Mensah, Jones Odei; Premaratne, Gamini - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper examines the benefits of regionally and globally diversified portfolios from the perspective of investors holding domestic-only portfolios from different Asia-Pacific countries. Three groups of regional portfolio are constructed, with sorting based on relative strength ranking...
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Impact of Foreign Capital Inflows (FCI) on Economic Growth in Pakistan [1975-2004]
Mohey-ud-din, Ghulam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The Two-Gap Model suggests that the Poor countries have to rely on the foreign capital inflows (FCI) to fill the two Gaps: Import-Export Gap and the Savings-Investment Gap. There are many forms of the foreign capital inflows like FDI (Foreign Direct Investment), External loans & Credit,...
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THE IMPACT OF THE FOREIGN INVESTMENTS ON THE CAPITAL MARKET IN ROMANIA
Barna, Flavia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
No country can develop without an active capital market, which has to be capable to meet the mobilization requests of the assets for financing the national economy. On the other hand, it has to be a profitable instrument for placing the available financing resources. The existence of a potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836137
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How does FDI inflow affect productivity of domestic firms? The role of horizontal and vertical spillovers, absorptive capacity and competition
Kolasa, Marcin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper examines the existence of externalities associated with FDI in a host country by exploiting firm-level panel data covering the Polish corporate sector. The main findings are as follows. Local firms benefit from foreign presence in the same industry and in downstream industries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836189