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Corruption, growth, and the environment : a cross-country analysis

Welsch, Heinz - 2003

-shaped or downward-sloping pattern. Corruption may affect this relationship in two distinct ways: by raising pollution at given … corruption on pollution. The indirect effect via income is positive or negative depending on the income level. If negative, the … corruption. Because this relationship is particularly strong at low income levels, developing countries can considerably improve …

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Are ethical and social banks less risky? : evidence from a new dataset

Karl, Marlene - 2015

This paper introduces a new and comprehensive dataset on “alternative” banks in EU and OECD countries. Alternative banks (e.g. ethical, social or sustainable banking) experienced a recent increase in media interest and have been hailed as an answer to the financial crisis but no research...

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Buyer power and supplier incentives

Inderst, Roman (contributor); Wey, Christian (contributor) - 2005

This paper argues that - in contrast to an often expressed view - the formation of larger and more powerful buyers need not reduce welfare by stifling suppliers' incentives. If contracts are determined in bilateral negotiations, the presence of larger buyers may both increase suppliers'...

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Mobile phone termination charges with asymmetric regulation

Baake, Pio (contributor); Mitusch, Kay (contributor) - 2005

We model competition between two unregulated mobile phone companies with price-elastic demand and less than full market coverage. We also assume that there is a regulated full-coverage fixed network. In order to induce stronger competition, mobile companies could have an incentive to raise their...

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Scale-free networks in international trade

Baskaran, Thushyanthan (contributor); … - 2005

The paper analyzes the network structure of international trade. Adapting a network approach developed in the physical sciences, we propose that international trade functions like a scale-free network. For each commodity group we calculate a characteristic parameter which reflects the structure...

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Tariffs and firm-level heterogeneous fixed export costs

Guldager Jørgensen, Jan (contributor); … - 2005

Recent literature on the workhorse model of intra-industry trade has explored heterogeneous cost structures at the firm level. These approaches have proven to add realism and predictive power. This note shows, however, that this added realism also implies that there may exist a positive...

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The effect of market power on electricity storage utilization : the case of pumped hydro storage in Germany

Schill, Wolf-Peter; Kemfert, Claudia - 2009

In this paper, we develop the game-theoretic electricity market model ElStorM that includes the possibility of strategic electricity storage. We apply the model to the German electricity market and analyze different realistic and counterfactual cases of strategic and non-strategic pumped hydro...

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How many bucks in a bang : on the estimation of the economic costs of conflict

Groot, Olaf J. de; Brück, Tilman; Bozzoli, Carlos - 2009

The estimation of the costs of conflict is currently receiving a lot of attention in the literature. This paper aims to give a thorough overview of the existing literature, first by addressing the history of case studies that address conflict costs and second by looking at the existing body of...

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Regulated expansion of electricity transmission networks : the effects of fluctuating demand and wind generation

Schill, Wolf-Peter; Rosellón, Juan; Egerer, Jonas - 2011

We study the performance of different regulatory approaches for the expansion of electricity transmission networks in the light of realistic demand patterns and fluctuating wind power. In particular, we are interested in the relative performance of a combined merchant-regulatory mechanism...

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Joint customer data acquisition and sharing among rivals

Jentzsch, Nicola; Sapi, Geza; Suleymanova, Irina - 2010

It is increasingly observable that in different industries competitors jointly acquire and share customer data. We propose a modified Hotelling model with two-dimensional consumer heterogeneity to analyze the incentives for such agreements and their welfare implications. In our model the...

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