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World Heritage List : Does it Make Sense?
Frey, Bruno S. - 2010
The UNESCO World Heritage List contains the 900 most treasured Sites of humanity's culture and landscapes. The World …
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Global Cartels, Leniency Programs and International Antitrust Cooperation
Choi, Jay Pil - 2010
programs and the benefits of international antitrust cooperation between agencies. When international antitrust prosecution is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144908
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What Explains Sovereign Debt Litigation?
Schumacher, Julian - 2015
We study the occurrence of holdout litigation in the context of sovereign defaults. The number of creditor lawsuits against foreign governments has strongly increased over the past decades, but there is a large variation across crisis events. Why are some defaults followed by a “run to the...
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Improving Global Public Goods Supply through Conditional Transfers - The International Adaptation Transfer Riddle
Pittel, Karen - 2013
. In the climate policy arena, international transfers are frequently seen as an effective means to raise the provision of … the global public good ‘climate change mitigation'. This paper focuses on a specific type of international transfer that … since the COP in Copenhagen 2009, preparations are on-going to significantly expand international transfers that help …
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Making World Heritage Truly Global : The Culture Certificate Scheme
Frey, Bruno S. - 2014
Culture has attributes of a global public good that needs to be preserved for mankind as a whole. World Culture … Certificates are proposed to efficiently preserve World Heritage. The community of nations has to agree on the Global Heritage List … and how much each nation is to contribute to that purpose. Each World Heritage site conserved is acknowledged through the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070880
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The Geography of Linguistic Diversity and the Provision of Public Goods
Desmet, Klaus - 2017
This paper theoretically analyzes and empirically investigates the importance of local interaction between individuals of different linguistic groups for the provision of public goods at the national level. Depending on whether local interaction mitigates or reinforces antagonism towards other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964695
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Forging a Global Environmental Agreement Through Trade Sanctions on Free Riders?
Eichner, Thomas - 2015
This paper studies the formation of self-enforcing global environmental agreements in a world economy with … international trade and two groups of countries that differ with respect to fuel demand and environmental damage. It investigates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020519
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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes
Schwarz, Christian - 2011
We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on its complexity, organization, and global scale. Specifically, the firm decides i) how thinly it wants to slice its production process by choosing the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are...
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Manufacturers and Retailers in the Global Economy
Raff, Horst - 2011
We develop a general-equilibrium model to capture key features of the retailing and of the manufacturing industry in order to understand how these two industries interact and how labor is allocated between them. We show that the observed shift in employment from manufacturing to retailing, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122636
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Financial Integration, Globalization, and Real Activity
De Nicolo, Gianni - 2013
distinct impact of financial integration and globalization on several dimensions of real activity. We find that: financial … financial integration predict better growth prospects; both advances in financial integration and globalization are associated … financial integration and globalization indeed foster countries' growth, and there appears to be no trade-off between these …
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