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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...
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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 …
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In March 2005, riots erupted in South Korea against Japan for claiming sovereignty over some rocky uninhabited islets …
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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...
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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. …
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The transformation of the Indonesian economy and building the basis of incomparably fast development started at the end of 60-ies. Moderate professional macro-level regulation, slow and gradual setup of market environment as well as an effective use of foreign support and advices were all...
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Recent literature on the workhorse model of intra-industry trade has explored heterogeneous cost structures at the firm level. These approaches have proven to add realism and predictive power. This paper presents a new and simple heterogeneous-firms specification. We develop a symmetric...
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The report identifies concerns with the EU anti-dumping instrument, as applied today, regardless of the fact that the investigation procedures and methods might be in line with the current regulation and practice. The report's arguments are based on the recent anti-dumping investigation – and...
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international context, and yet instances of protectionism have been apparent in the recent period. However, protectionism has …
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world's most open regimes to IFDI and, though there is some evidence of protectionism vis-a-vis IFDI from emerging markets …, there is also evidence of protectionism among member state economies themselves. …
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