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Review of Howard DeLong (1991), "A refutation of Arrow’s theorem", with a reaction, also on its relevance in 2008 for the European Union
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
insufficient attention in the literature. This review also compares DeLong’s approach with my own book "Voting theory for democracy …There will be many researchers who discover voting theory afresh and who will want to understand it and its interesting … paradoxes. Arrow's theorem (1951, 1963) is the most celebrated result in social choice theory. It has been criticized a lot but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619463
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Why one would accept Voting Theory for Democracy and reject the Penrose Square Root Weights
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Ministers. When we compare the SDE letter with Colignatus (2001, 2007b) “Voting theory for democracy” (VTFD) then we find that … SDE does not fit voting theory for democracy. Inspection of the material upon which the SDE letter is based also shows a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622129
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Comment on Benjamin Smith (2004): “Oil Wealth and Regime Survival in the Developing World, 1960-1999”
Hlavac, Marek - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
between conflict and economic performance, his use of the Polity democracy index, and his choice of the resource dependence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685499
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Is State Building the Road to World Order?
Garzarelli, Giampaolo; Thomassen, Bjørn - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
theory and a series of substantive claims are left unarticulated; this raises the possibility that the book’s policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623418
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In a democracy, Bayrou would have won. Application of the Borda Fixed Point method to the 2007 French presidential elections
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Democratic nations are advised to have parliaments select the chief executive by the Borda Fixed Point method. The current practice of having direct popular elections using systems that have originated in history is inoptimal and actually quite undemocratic since winners are selected who don’t...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789458
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The Effectiveness of Competition Policy: An Econometric Assessment in Developed and Developing Countries
Samà, Danilo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The ultimate objective of the present paper is to empirically investigate the effectiveness of competition policy in developed and developing countries. Although its importance is continuously increasing, the effectiveness of competition policy still seems to lack the attention that it would...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109090
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The political Economy of WTO with special reference to NAMA Negotiations
Shafaeddin, Mehdi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The dissatisfaction of developing countries with the new Trade Round surfaced first in the WTO meeting in Seattle in autumn 1999. The Round was finally launched in Doha in 2001. Nevertheless, since the, the negotiations has faced with difficulties and deadlocks. The author argues that such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787066
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Trade, Foreign Investment, and Industrial Policy
Harrison, Ann E.; Rodriguez-Clare, Andres - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
During the last three decades, developing countries have made enormous strides in opening up their protected domestic markets to international trade and foreign investment. Yet most countries have not simply opened up their markets. They have also instituted a range of policies to encourage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025700
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Are financial benefits of financial globalization questionable until greater domestic financial development has taken place?
Simplice A, Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Purpose – The issue of which financial initial conditions are necessary to materialize the benefits of financial globalization remains open to debate in the literature. In this paper, we try to put some empirical structure on the concept of financial threshold conditions in order to give...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259632
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Financial development dynamic thresholds of financial globalization: evidence from Africa
Simplice A, Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Purpose – The issue of which financial initial conditions are necessary to materialize the benefits of financial globalization remains open to debate in the literature. In this paper, we try to put some empirical structure on the concept of financial threshold conditions in order to give...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260939