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A Long Term Perspective on the Euro
Bordo, Michael D. - 2008
This study grounds the establishment of EMU and the euro in the context of the history of international monetary cooperation and of monetary unions, above all in the U.S., Germany and Italy. The purpose of national monetary unions was to reduce transactions costs of multiple currencies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772728
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Central banks : between internationalisation and domestic political control
James, Harold - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008904017
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What determines the World Heritage List? : an econometric analysis
Frey, Bruno S.; Pamini, Paolo; Steiner, Lasse - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009162008
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Globalization, structural change, and productivity growth
McMillan, Margaret - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009504603
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Imbalance of World Heritage List : did the UNESCO strategy work?
Steiner, Lasse; Frey, Bruno S. - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009260841
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The international monetary and financial system : a capital account historical perspective
Borio, Claudio E. V.; James, Harold; Shin, Hyun Song - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010433954
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World heritage: where are we? : an empirical analysis
Frey, Bruno S.; Pamini, Paolo - 2011 - March 2011
An empirical overview of the UNESCO World Heritage List according to various characteristics is presented. The … officially stated intention of the World Heritage List is to protect global heritage. Our focus is on the imbalance of the … considered "balanced" from different points of view. It turns out that the World Heritage List is unbalanced with respect to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009236783
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The Value of Luminosity Data as a Proxy for Economic Statistics
Chen, Xi - 2010
One of the pervasive issues in social and environmental research has been to improve the quality of socioeconomic data in developing countries. Because of the shortcoming of standard data sources, the present study examines luminosity (measures of nighttime lights) as a proxy for standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138765
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Unconditional Convergence
Rodrik, Dani - 2011
Unlike economies as a whole, manufacturing industries exhibit unconditional convergence in labor productivity. The paper documents this finding for 4-digit manufacturing sectors for a large group of developed and developing countries over the period since 1990. The coefficient of unconditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119042
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Estimates of the Social Cost of Carbon : Background and Results from the Rice-2011 Model
Nordhaus, William D. - 2011
A new and important concept in global warming economics and policy is the social cost of carbon or SCC. This concept represents the economic cost caused by an additional ton of carbon-dioxide emissions or its equivalent. The present study describes the development of the concept as well as its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119046