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The environmental impacts of protected area policy
Reynaert, Mathias; Rodrigues, Eduardo Augusto de Souza; … - 2023
The world has pledged to protect 30 percent of its land and waters by 2030 to halt the rapid deterioration of critical … summarize empirical evidence across multiple regions of the world. In most cases, protection has had at most a modest impact on … econometric advancements, shifting focus to direct measures of biodiversity, filling the knowledge gap on the effect of protected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014431238
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What drives the global land rush?
Arezki, Rabah; Deininger, Klaus W.; Selod, Harris - 2011
This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed indicators of agro-ecological suitability in areas with low population density as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009387247
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Privatising network industries
Newbery, David M. G. - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402670
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The volatility curse : revisiting the paradox of plenty
Ploeg, Frederick van der; Poelhekke, Steven - 2009
The volatility of unanticipated output growth in income per capita is detrimental to long-run development, controlling for initial income per capita, population growth, human capital, investment, openness and natural resource dependence. This effect is significant and robust over a wide range of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832092
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The empirics of China's outward direct investment
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Qian, Xingwang - 2009
We investigate the empirical determinants of China's outward direct investment (ODI). It is found that China's investments in developed and developing countries are driven by different sets of factors. Subject to the differences between developed and developing countries, there is evidence that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003833316
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High-frequency analysis of foreign exchange interventions : what do we learn?
Menkhoff, Lukas (contributor) - 2008
The high-frequency analysis of foreign exchange dynamics is helpful in order to better identify the impact of central bank interventions. Evidence robustly shows that interventions do indeed move the exchange rate level in the desired direction. Interventions increase volatility in the short run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790983
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FDI and taxation : a meta-Ssudy
Feld, Lars P.; Heckemeyer, Jost H. - 2009
Despite the continuing political interest in the usefulness of tax competition and tax coordination as well as the wealth of theoretical analyses, it still remains open whether or when tax competition is harmful. Moreover, the influence of tax differentials on multinationals' decisions is still...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003807896
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Environmental policy design and the fragmentation of international markets for innovation
Johnstone, Nick; Hascic, Ivan - 2009
world economy. For a given level of policy stringency, countries with more flexible environmental policies are more likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850134
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A cross-country empirical analysis of international reserves
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Itō, Hiro - 2009
Using data from more than 100 economies for the period of 1975 to 2005, we conduct an extensive empirical analysis of the determinants of international reserve holdings. Four groups of determinants, namely, traditional macro variables, financial variables, institutional variables, and dummy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850507
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The economic effects of federalism and decentralization : a cross-country assessment
Voigt, Stefan; Blume, Lorenz - 2009
This paper explores the idea that institutional details matter and that attempts to estimate the economic effects of federalism by employing a simple dummy variable neglect potentially important institutional details. Based on a principal component analysis, seven aspects of both federalism and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003882595