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Discounting in the Presence of Scarce Ecosystem Services

Zhu, Xueqin; Smulders, Sjak; de Zeeuw, Aart - 2019

Discounting has to take account of ecosystem services in consumption and production. Previous literature focuses on the first aspect and shows the importance of the relative price effect, for given growth rates of consumption and ecosystem services. This paper focuses on intermediate ecosystem...

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The Assignment of Powers in an Open-ended European Union

Salmon, Pierre - 2003

A major characteristic of the European Union is its transitional or evolving nature, in particular with regard to the assignment of powers between the two main levels of government. More precisely, under current constitutional arrangements, this evolving nature takes the form of an integration...

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Voting Up? The Effects of Democracy and Franchise Extension on Human Stature

Batinti, Alberto; Costa-i-Font, Joan; Hatton, Timothy J. - 2019

between democratic quality and human stature. The results indicate that the transition to democracy increased average male …

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Real convergence, price level convergence and inflation differentials in Europe

Égert, Balázs - 2007

economic convergence may push up inflation rates in transition economies. Cyclical effects and regulated prices are found to be … exchange rate plays a prominent (but declining) role in transition economies. …

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Neutral taxation of shareholder income?: corporate responses to an announced dividend tax

Alstadsæter, Annette; Fjaerli, Erik - 2009

The introduction of the 2006 Norwegian shareholder income tax was announced in advance, and it increased top marginal tax rates on individual dividend income from zero to 28 percent. We document strong timing effects on dividend payout on a large panel of non-listed corporations, with a surge of...

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Asymmetry in volatility: A comparison of developed and transition stock markets

Wdowiński, Piotr; Malecka, Marta - 2010

ARCH modelling framework of Engle (1982) and its GARCH generalization of Bollerslev (1986) gave a huge impetus to econometric model building in the field of financial time series with time-varying variance. The main idea of the models was to describe the most typical features of capital markets...

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Modeling institutions, start-ups and productivity during transition

Brixiova, Zuzana; Égert, Balázs - 2010

The transition paths from plan to market have varied markedly across countries. Central and Eastern European and the … firms at an earlier stage of transition, underscoring the importance of reforms. The role of the state sector as an employer … during transition rises in countries where reforming institutions is particularly costly. …

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Good institutions are not enough: Ongoing challenges of East German development

Carlin, Wendy - 2010

A major theme in accounts of the transitional recession and delayed convergence in post-communist economies is the role of institutions. Yet via unification, East Germany had immediate access to credible, high quality institutions. This paper argues that success in a capitalist economy depends...

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Are the Supporters of Socialism the Losers of Capitalism? Conformism in East Germany and Transition Success

Deter, Max; Lange, Martin - 2021

seem to be driven by individual reactions to the transition, but rather by the removal of discriminatory practices in the …

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Anthropometric Dividends of Czechoslovakia's Break Up

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Kossarova, Lucia - 2014

Processes of transition to democracy and country break up stand out as ideal experiments to estimate the impact of wide … and 0.148cm for Czechs. Although transition paths differ across the two countries, the absolute height gap between Slovaks …

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