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The role and the performance of public sector in the European Union

Donath, Liliana; Milos, Marius - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The role of the state is finally the decision of the citizens. The government, being a result of elections, can provide more or less protection and increase or decrease expenditures. Anyway for achieving goals and for being performant the state definitly has to promote a good governance. Good...

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Power Sector Reform: Some Lessons for Kerala

Pillai N., Vijayamohanan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Electric power is so vital to both our economic and personal wellbeing that the erstwhile state policy in most of the developing countries, including India, had vested the power industry in the hands of the state as a promotional agency for subsidized supply. However, with the onset of the...

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Growing out of poverty: trends and patterns of urban poverty in China 1988–2002

Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period regardless of the exact location of the poverty line....

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An axiomatic approach to sustainable development

Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1995

The paper proposes two axioms that capture the idea of sustainable development and derives the welfare criterion that …-run future, and specify trade-offs between them. It examines other welfare criteria which are generally utilized: discounted … value under a standard price system may fail to reach optimal sustainable welfare levels, and Example 4 that the two …

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Causality and Efficiency in the Coffee Futures Market

Kebede, Yohannes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992

and welfare loss. …

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Empirical Assessment of Nigeria’s Agricultural Export and Economic Welfare

Nwachukwu, Ifeanyi; Ehumadu, Felix; Mejeha, Remy; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper assessed empirically Nigeria’s agricultural export and economic welfare. Data used for the study were … economic welfare of Nigeria. Economic welfare was found to have grown at rate of 2.9% over the period and would be expected to … welfare. …

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Cost benefit-analysis of a transport improvement in the case of search unemployment

Pilegaard, Ninette; Fosgerau, Mogens - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

We examine the implications of search unemployment for the evaluation of a transport in-vestment in a conventional cost benefit analysis (CBA) assuming perfect competition. Lower transport costs induces search over a larger area and longer commuting distances. The ex-pected duration of vacancies...

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Disclosure Quality, Cost of Capital, and Investors’ Welfare

Gao, Pingyang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

It is widely believed that disclosure quality improves investors’ welfare by reducing cost of capital in a competitive … investment is sufficiently elastic. Second, there are plausible conditions under which disclosure quality reduces the welfare of … the welfare of either current or new investors. These results may help interpret the mixed empirical findings on the …

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The value of reliability

Fosgerau, Mogens; Karlström, Anders - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

We derive the value of reliability in the scheduling of an activity of random duration, such as travel under congested conditions. We show that the minimal expected cost is linear in the mean and standard deviation of duration, regardless of the form of the standardized distribution of...

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Migration and Social Replacement Incomes: How to Protect Low-IncomeWorkers in the Industrialized Countries against the Forces of Globalizationand Market Integration

Sinn, Hans-Werner - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

-order efficiency losses that outweigh the budget cost to the government. By contrast, wage subsidies involve much smaller welfare …

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