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To stay within the 2°C temperature increase target for climate change calls for ambitious emission reduction targets already for the 2012-2020 compliance period. Cost-efficiency is a crucial criterion for the enforcement of such ambitious targets, requiring analyses of all possible abatement...

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On the environmental effectiveness of the EU marine strategy framework directive

Bertram, Christine; Rehdanz, Katrin - 2012

Marine and coastal ecosystems – and thus the benefits they create for humans – are subject to increasing pressures and competing usages. For this reason, the European Union (EU) adopted the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), which is to guide future maritime policy in the EU and...

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WTO accession issues

Langhammer, Rolf J.; Lücke, Matthias - 1999

For many applicant countries, accession to the WTO has been, and still is, a frustratingly slow process. In this paper, we discuss the substantial, contentious issues that are slowing down progress in accession negotiations. We contrast these with the benefits of WTO accession not only to the...

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WTO negotiations and accession issues for vulnerable economies

Langhammer, Rolf J.; Lücke, Matthias - 2000

The paper discusses the costs and benefits to be expected by least-developed and low-income ("vulnerable") economies if they accede to the WTO, the impact of current debates about WTO reform on vulnerable economies, and measures to make it easier for vulnerable economies to accede to and...

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Selected essays on the success of mergers and acquisitions : evidence from the banking and REIT industries

Keisers, Maximilian - 2009 - 1. Aufl.

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Analysing bioenergy and land use competition in a coupled modelling system : the role of bioenergy in renewable energy policy in Germany

Delzeit, Ruth; Gömann, Horst; Holm-Müller, Karin; … - 2010

agricultural sector model for Germany (RAUMIS) and a location model for biogas plants. The DART model allows capturing … Germany. Finally, we link this system to the newly developed location model ReSI-M that accounts for the location choices of … biogas plants in Germany and the resulting regional markets for energy crop demand. As a first application of the modelling …

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Hedge fund regulation by banking supervision : a comparative institutional analysis

Kaal, Wulf Alexander; Kaal, Wulf Alexander - 2006

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[Business cycles and FDI : evidence from German sectoral data]

Buch, Claudia M. (contributor); … - 2005

Globalization has affected business cycle developments in OECD countries and has increased activities of firms across national borders. This paper analyzes whether these two developments are linked. We use a new firm-level dataset on the foreign activities of German firms to test whether foreign...

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Exportweltmeister : Germany's foreign investment returns in international comparison

Hünnekes, Franziska; Konradt, Maximilian; Schularick, … - 2023 - Revised version: April 2023

In the past decade, Germany has been the world champion in exporting capital (“Exportweltmeister”). No other country … invested larger amounts of savings outside its borders. However, we find that Germany plays in the third division when it comes … for 13 advanced economies back to the 1970s. The data reveal that Germany’s annual returns on foreign assets were 2 to 5 …

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What determines maturity? : an analysis for foreign assets of German commercial banks

Buch, Claudia M. - 2000

Surges and reversals of short-term foreign liabilities are often held responsible for instabilities in international financial markets. Yet, empirical evidence on the factors determining the maturity of capital flows is scant. This paper analyzes the determinants of foreign assets of German...

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