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The Boom-Bust Cycle in Japanese Asset Prices
Alpanda, Sami - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The Japanese economy experienced a substantial increase and a subsequent crash in land and stock prices in the 1980s and 90s. I use a neoclassical growth model to determine how much of these asset price movements can be accounted for by the observed changes in fundamentals of the Japanese...
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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 …
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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 …
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Managerialism and the Demise of the Big Three
Locke, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
how it supersedes in theory and practice the managerial methods of the Big Three. …
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Consumption efficiency hypothesis and the HOS model: Some counterintuitive results
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Banerjee, Dibyendu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
We show how accommodation of the consumption efficiency hypothesis can explain the existence of involuntary unemployment in the two-by-two Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson (HOS) model. Although the workers consume both the commodities their nutritional efficiency depends on the consumption of one...
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Foreign Capital, Return to Education and Child labour
Dwibedi, Jayanta; Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper attempts to identify the different channels through which economic reforms can affect the incidence of child labour in a developing economy. Using a three-sector general equilibrium model it shows that inflows of foreign capital can lower the problem of child labour by raising the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836084
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Mid-day Meal Program and Incidence of Child Labour in a Developing Economy
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The present paper purports to examine the consequence of mid-day meal program and/or cash stipend scheme on the incidence of child labour in a developing economy using a three-sector general equilibrium model. It has been found that the policy may be counterproductive as it lowers both the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836138
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The modernity of backwardness
Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
framed in Robert Brenner’s classic critique of World Systems and Dependency Theory. It was originally presented to the July …. However the reverse happens, and development theory is deprived of an adequate explanation for national differentiation in … theory. The paper locates the origin of this failure within the systematic replacement of this theory by an equilibrium re …
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