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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...

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Do civil and political repression really boost foreign direct investments?

Harms, Philipp; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2001

Multinational enterprises are often accused to have a preference for investing in countries in which the working populations' civil and political rights are largely disregarded. This paper presents an empirical investigation of the popular political repression boosts FDI hypothesis and arrives...

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Globalization, economic freedom and human rights

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars - 2010

Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization …-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity rights significantly and robustly increase with globalization and … community is presumably less effective in promoting empowerment rights. -- human rights ; globalization ; economic freedom …

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The globalization paradox revisited

Schwerhoff, Gregor; Edenhofer, Ottmar - 2014

According to the Globalization Paradox, globalization limits the freedom of choice for national governments. Capital …. Fixed factor taxes have the potential to improve welfare by defusing the globalization trilemma through a reduction in the …

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Corporate Social Responsibility along the global value chain

Herkenhoff, Philipp; Krautheim, Sebastian; Semrau, Finn Ole - 2021

-level data. We compute a firm’s value chain position combining product-level information in our data with the World Input …

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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 …

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Policies against human trafficking : the role of religion and political institutions

Potrafke, Niklas - 2013

I investigate empirically the role of religion and political institutions in policies against human trafficking, using the new 3P Anti-trafficking Policy Index. The dataset contains 175 countries. The results show that governments in countries with Christian majorities implement stricter...

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The UN Goldstone Report and retraction : an empirical investigation

Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015

The United Nations Goldstone Report criminalized self-defense against state-sponsored or state-perpetrated terror. We use voting on the two UN General Assembly resolutions relating to the Goldstone Report to study whether support for the Goldstone principle of criminalization of self-defense...

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From natural resources to human rights

Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2018

aspects of natural resources management in view of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which stipulates …

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Pacem in terris : are papal visits good news for human rights?

Endrich, Marek; Gutmannn, Jerg - 2022

small theocracy like the Vatican can exert disproportionate political influence in international politics. Our theoretical …

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