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The Economics of Climate Change and Science of Global Warming Debate:African Perspectives
Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
As at today, it is an indisputable fact that the climate is changing and there is a scientific consensus that the world is becoming a warmer place principally attributable to human activities. Regrettably, the physical impacts of future climate change on humans and the environment will include...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259199
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Creative accounting in the British Industrial Revolution: Cotton manufacturers and the ‘Ten Hours’ Movement.
Toms, Steven; Shepherd, Alice - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The paper examines an early case of creative accounting, and how, during British industrialization, accounting was enlisted by the manufacturers’ interest to resist demands, led by the ‘Ten hours’ movement, for limiting the working day. In contrast to much of the prior literature, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260306
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Comparative advantage, industrial policy and the World Bank: back to first principles
Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Abstract This paper provides a critical analysis of the World Bank’s new thinking on industrial policy. After outlining the changing perspectives on industrial policy put forward by the World Bank over the last three decades, we argue that the bank’s economists have taken one step forward...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260514
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Clusterwettbewerbe: Eine Option für Entwicklungsländer?
Benner, Maximilian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Cluster policy has gained remarkable prominence in regional and sectoral structural policy in industrialized countries. Instead of compensating for weaknesses it focuses on strengths in the local and regional economic structure. In Germany, handing out regional development funds in competitions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110941
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‘Cold, Calculating Political Economy’: Fixed costs, the Rate of Profit and the Length of the Working Day in the Factory Act Debates, 1832-1847.
Toms, Steven - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The paper re-analyses the evidence presented by pro and anti-regulation interests during the debates on factory reform. To do so it considers the interrelationship between fixed costs, the rate of profit and the length of the working day. The interrelationship casts new light on the lobbying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111812
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Exportinduziertes Wachstum als Chance für die „nächsten Tiger“?
Benner, Maximilian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Using a strategy of export-led growth and an activist industrial policy, Japan, the Asian Tigers and more recently China have attained high rates of economic growth. Export-led growth has taken over the status as model for developing countries' economic development from the formerly prevailing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257823
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Comparative advantage, industrial policy and the World Bank: back to first principles
Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper provides a critical analysis of the World Bank’s new thinking on industrial policy. After outlining the changing perspectives on industrial policy put forward by the World Bank over the last three decades, we argue that the bank’s economists have taken one step forward (the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257840
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Can Price Discrimination be Bad for Firms and Good for All Consumers? A Theoretical Analysis of Cross-Market Price Constraints with Entry and Product Differentiation
Azar, Ofer H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
The article examines a differentiated-products duopoly model where the firms make entry decisions to two markets and … then choose prices. The effects of product differentiation and entry costs are analyzed in two games: with and without … price discrimination between the markets. Allowing price discrimination encourages more entry and tends to reduce prices and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836325
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Entry, Competitiveness and Exports: Evidence from Firm Level Data of Indian Manufacturing
Barua, Alokesh; Chakraborty, Debashis; Hariprasad, C. G. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
industrial licensing system and thereby allowing free entry to and exit from the industry of firms in 1991 followed by the WTO … present paper attempts to provide a unified approach to examine the inter-relationships between entry and competitiveness … decade in terms of entry and competitiveness. An overall decline in concentration is witnessed between the two end points …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490490
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Financing Creative Destruction
Samaniego, Roberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
of innovations introduced by entrepreneurs. Using internationally comparable data on European countries, entry and exit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565948