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The war in Europe : economic costs of the Ukrainian conflict

Bluszcz, Julia; Valente, Marica - 2019

With more than ten thousand casualties, the 2014 Ukrainian war between pro-Russian separatists and the government in the Donbass region, Ukraine's productive core, has taken a severe toll on the country. Using cross-country panel data over the period 1995-2017, this paper quantifies the...

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Movers or stayers? : understanding the drivers of IDP camp decongestion during post-conflict recovery in Uganda

Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman; Muhumuza, Tony - 2012

aftermath of violent conflict. Our analysis is based on two sources of information: household survey data collected in northern … Uganda for households that were displaced by the civil conflict, and geo-referenced data on armed conflict events, with which … we construct our developed index of recent conflict exposure. We compare households that moved out of camps with those …

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Self-employment and conflict in Colombia

Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman; Wald, Nina - 2011

Many Colombians are confronted with the ongoing conflict that influences their decision making in everyday life …, including their behavior in labor markets. This study focuses on the impact of violent conflict on self-employment, enlarging … the usual determinants with a set of conflict variables. In order to estimate the effect of conflict on self …

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Measuring ethno-linguistic affinity between nations

Groot, Olaf J. de - 2009

Ethno-Linguistic Affinity, I show that civil conflict in Africa is likely to spill over between contiguous ethno …-linguistically similar countries. -- Ethno-linguistic heterogeneity ; spatial econometrics ; conflict ; Africa …

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Appropriate technology, human capital and development accounting

Chanda, Areendam; Farkas, Beatrice - 2012

Over the past decade, research explaining cross country income differences has increasingly pointed to the dominant role of total factor productivity (TFP) gaps as opposed to factor accumulation. Nevertheless, it is a widely held belief that a country's ability to absorb and implement...

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The impact of population, affluence, technology, and urbanization on CO2 emissions across income groups

Sorge, Lars; Neumann, Anne - 2019

This paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions within the STIRPAT framework over the period 1971 to 2014 for a panel of 76 countries clustered into income groups. Using dynamic panel estimations techniques, the empirical results robustly show an inverted N-shaped relationship...

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Evidence of market power in the atlantic steam coal market using oligopoly models with a competitive fringe

Haftendorn, Clemens - 2012

Before 2004 South Africa was the dominant steam coal exporter to the European market. However a new market situation with rising global demand and prices makes room for a new entrant: Russia. The hypothesis investigated in this paper is that the three incumbent dominant firms located in South...

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Testing supply-side climate policies for the global steam coal market : can they curb coal consumption?

Mendelevitch, Roman - 2016

The achieved international consensus on the 1.5‐2°C target entails that most of current fossil fuel reserves must remain unburned. Currently, a majority of climate policies aiming at this goal are directed towards the demand side. In the absence of a global carbon regime these polices are...

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Institutionen, Finanzsysteme und Transformation

Engerer, Hella; Schrooten, Mechthild - 2001

): "Moreover, "third factors", such as a country's legal system and political institutions certainly drive both financial and …

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Power utility re-regulation in East European and CIS transformation countries (1990-1999) : an institutional interpretation

Hirschhausen, Christian R. von; Opitz, Petra - 2001

This paper analyzes the process of power utility re-regulation in Eastern Europe and the CIS during the decade of systemic transformation (1990-1999); in particular, it explores reasons why early attempts to introduce competition-oriented reform models have not succeeded. We discuss advantages...

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