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The Sustainability of Empire in Global Perspective : The Role of International Trade Patterns
Bonfatti, Roberto - 2012
European empires had two key economic aspects: the extraction of colonial wealth by colonizers, and the relevance of trade for the colonial economies. I build a simple model of decolonization that puts these two elements at centre stage. By controlling policy in the colony, the mother country...
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Sustainable Climate Treaties
Gersbach, Hans - 2017
We examine long-run treaties for mitigating climate change. Countries pay an initial fee into a global fund that is invested in long-run assets. In each period, part of the fund is distributed among the participating countries in relation to the emission reductions they have achieved in this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958888
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The Environmental Kuznets Curve and Sustainability : A Panel Data Analysis
Farhani, Sahbi - 2014
In recent years, sustainability has represented one of the most important policy goals explored in the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. But related hypotheses, performance measures and results continue to present a challenge. The present paper contributes to this ongoing literature...
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Entrepreneurial Innovation and Sustained Long-Run Growth Without Weak or Strong Scale Effects
Grossmann, Volker - 2021
R&D-based growth theory suggests that a larger population size raises either the long-run rate of economic growth ("strong scale effect") or the level of per capita income ("weak scale effect"), with far-reaching policy implications. However, for modern times there is little empirical support...
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Religious Tolerance as Engine of Innovation
Cinnirella, Francesco - 2018
creativity and innovation. In particular, we show that variations in innovation within Prussia during the second industrial … innovation during the second industrial revolution. Religious tolerance is measured through population's religious diversity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927577
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The Impact of Recent Chemotherapy Innovation on the Longevity of Myeloma Patients : U.S. and International Evidence
Lichtenberg, Frank R.; Hostenkamp, Gisela - 2021
important innovations since 1997. We investigate the impact of recent chemotherapy innovation on the longevity of myeloma … post-1997 chemotherapy innovation did not exceed $45,551. We also investigate the impact of chemotherapy innovation on the …, controlling for other factors. The estimates imply that chemotherapy innovation reduced the age-adjusted myeloma cancer mortality …
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Competition between State Universities
Grazzini, Lisa - 2011
We analyse how state university competition to collect resources may affect both research and the quality of teaching. By considering a set-up where two state universities behave strategically, we model their interaction with potential students as a sequential noncooperative game. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128543
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Competition in Funding Higher Education
Eckwert, Bernhard - 2012
In higher education pure credit market funding leads to underinvestment while income-contingent loans funding tends to produce overinvestment. We analyze whether a market structure in which both funding schemes coexist and compete against each other might restore efficiency of the educational...
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Public Funding of Higher Education
Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2011
Recent criticism from different sides has expressed the view that, with scarce resources, there is little justification for massive public funding of higher education. Central to the debate is the conjecture that colleges and universities use their resources inefficiently and focus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119638
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The Effects of Tuition Fees on Transition from High School to University in Germany
Bruckmeier, Kerstin - 2013
This paper studies whether the introduction of tuition fees at public universities in some German states had a negative effect on enrollment, i.e., on the transition of high school graduates to public universities in Germany. In contrast to recent studies, we do not find a significant effect on...
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