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World heritage: where are we? : an empirical analysis
Frey, Bruno S.; Pamini, Paolo - 2010
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/10003928836
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World heritage list : does it make sense?
Frey, Bruno S.; Steiner, Lasse - 2010
The UNESCO World Heritage List contains the 900 most treasured sites of humanity's culture and landscapes. The World … excessive tourism, and in times of war or by terrorists. -- global public good ; World Heritage ; cultural certificates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003974639
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Risk taking, limited liability and the competition of bank regulators
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2001
international policy externality on foreign lenders of domestic banks, there will be an undersupply of such regulation. This may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400902
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Growth, income distribution, and well-being : comparisons across space and time
Grün, Carola; Klasen, Stephan - 2003
We use several well-being measures that combine average income with a measure of inequality to undertake international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514115
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National happiness and genetic distance : a cautious exploration
Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2015 - Revised
This paper studies a famous unsolved puzzle in quantitative social science. Why do some nations report such high levels of mental well-being? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich countries' happiness; Britain and the US enter further down; some nations do unexpectedly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405676
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Leadership and climate policy
Mideksa, Torben K. - 2021
This paper examines leadership in relation to supplying a global public good. Both the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement encourage the developed countries to take a lead in reducing emissions. Does a country benefit from taking a lead? When does leadership improve global welfare? The answer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012509563
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Confucius Institute, Belt and Road Initiative, and internationalization
Wang, Hao; Han, Yonghui; Fidrmuc, Jan; Wei, Dongming - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München / Center for …; … - 2020
In this paper, we study the role of Confucius Institute in supporting internationalization of Chinese enterprises. Employing a panel dataset containing 66 Belt-Road countries and 75 non Belt-Road countries from 2006 to 2017, we find that the Confucius Institute has had a positive effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012258300
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International value-added linkages in development accounting
Cuñat, Alejandro; Zymek, Robert - 2018
by bilateral trade determinants (which underpin the patterns of "international value-added linkages") and the global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011892529
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Sanctioned to death? : the impact of economic sanctions on life expectancy and its gender gap
Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2019
We empirically analyze the effect of UN and US economic sanctions on life expectancy and its gender gap in target countries. Our sample covers 98 less developed and newly industrialized countries over the period 1977-2012. We employ a matching approach to account for the endogeneity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157271
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Moral universalism : global evidence
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Enke, Benjamin; Tungodden, Bertil - 2022
This paper presents novel stylized facts about the global variation in universalism, leveraging nationally representative surveys across 60 countries (N=64,000). We find large variation in universalism within and across countries, which almost entirely reflects heterogeneity in people's moral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013457672