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Based on a contingent valuation study in Shanghai the authors assess people’s willingness to contribute personally to the alleviation of environmental problems occurring in distant parts of the country. One split of survey assessed Shanghai residents’ willingness to pay for the preservation...
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Because Hayek’s view goes beyond the Walrasian framework, his descriptive arguments on socialist planned economies are prone to be misunderstood. This paper clarifies Hayek’s arguments by using them as a basis to construct a model of total factor productivity. The model shows that...
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We evaluate whether the presence of China in world trade is ultimately beneficial or whether it is a threat to Brazil … result of its commerce with China. …
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China has becoming in 2006 the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases (GHG), responsible for one-fifth of world … generation capacities substantial investments in China’s energy infrastructure are necessary. But the potential investors are … confronted with uncertainty in the design of China’s future climate policy, which might affect the profitability of GHG emitting …
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This paper empirically examines developments in price and inflation in China from 1991 to 2005. Unlike most previous …
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country like China; (b) will a stockmarket be system-compatible; and (c) if a full-fledged stockmarket is indeed introduced in … economies. Although the paper considers the specific case of China, the argument is more general and has application to other …
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China has by far the largest foreign exchage reserves in the world. This article contributes to the understanding of … this extraordinary phenomenon. Before the financial crisis the economic relationship between China and the U.S. always … seemed harmonious. The United States was the main export- and investment market for China. Since the financial crisis China …
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China and Brazil are two countries with continental dimensions, with differences in availability of natural resources …, population sizes, and which have adopted different strategies of economic growth in the past. China has been following … power parity rates (GNI-PPP) of China and Brazil were at approximately the same level, but by the mid 2000s the GNI-PPP of …
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Adam Smith (1776) devoted the first three chapters to the division of labor in his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. This process, carried far enough, eventually results in a divergence between the distributions of supplies and demands of such...
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To operate in China requires a thorough knowledge of the cultural-political conditions that characterize it and which … China, and the behavior of firms can not be properly oriented without taking into account the specific characteristics of …
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