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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...

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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. …

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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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Investment, protectionism and decision of international migration

Tarbalouti, Essaid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This article leaves the principle that the protectionist policy are favorable to the preservation of the stable rates of salary. These rates of salary will have for object to maintain the cost of migration of the populations of the protected sectors and thus to maintain constant the migratory...

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Lord, Montague J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001

The study is organized as follows: Chapter 1 reviews the recent performance of the Honduran economy and the objective and coverage of the study. Chapter 2 provides a detailed examination of policies guiding trade and key institutions controlling trade practices. Chapter 3 describes trade control...

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The Nature of Lobbying and Regulation in Turkey

Babacan, Mehmet - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The policy-making and distributive effects of lobbying is a disturbing and highly debated issue in many developing countries. This study will provide a comparative analysis of the two biggest industrial-commercial interest groups in Turkey. The relationship between the policy suggestions of...

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India: The use of temporary trade barriers

Patricia, Tovar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

While India did not use antidumping, safeguards, and countervailing measures (temporary trade barriers) prior to 1992, it subsequently came to become the WTO system’s dominant user of those policies. Using detailed product-level data from the World Banks’ Temporary Trade Barriers Database...

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Furniture Industry Assessment: Trade Policy and Market Opportunities

Lord, Montague J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999

The report analyzes the international competitiveness of furniture industry based on calculations of effective rates of protection and trade indicators. Furniture manufacturing remains one of the most highly protected industries in Egypt. Although the nominal rate of protection (NRP) for that...

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