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Footloose capital, market access, and the geography of regional state aid

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - 2001

The global welfare implications of home market effects in trade models with imperfect competition are little understood. This paper proposes a simple model in which such implications can be easily analyzed. It shows an overall tendency of imperfectly competitive sectors to inefficiently cluster...

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Burden sharing and cohesion countries in European climate policy: The Portuguese example

Dessai, Suraje; Michaelowa, Axel - 2000

The EU has been a leader in international climate policy. However, due to activities of interest groups, domestic action, an area which the EU has strongly defended, is proving difficult to carry out, particularly for cohesion member states. Although their behaviour resembles free-riding, at...

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On Multi-Period Emissions Trading in the Electricity Sector

Bode, Sven - 2006

Emissions trading schemes on entity level are becoming more and more important in the context of controlling greenhouse gases. The directive on a Europe-wide trading scheme is a prime example. Prior to the start of such a scheme, a number of design features have to be agreed upon. Regarding the...

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The "efficiency defense" in the US American merger policy

Kinne, Konstanze - 1998

Efficiencies have yet not played a prominent role in American merger enforcement policy, although the federal antitrust … agencies and the courts have recognized efficiencies as a factor in merger analysis that may tilt the balance in an otherwise … anticompetitive transaction. A review of the development of the Merger Guidelines and an analysis of the case law reveals that the …

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Transaktionskosten und Wettbewerbspolitik

Busse, Matthias - 2001

Die Unternehmen stehen durch die fortschreitende Globalisierung der Weltwirtschaft in einem zunehmend internationalen Wettbewerb, wovon jedoch nicht alle Branchen im gleichen Ausmaß erfasst werden. Determiniert wird der Globalisierungsgrad einer Branche vor allem durch die Höhe der...

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Mitigation versus adaptation: The political economy of competition between climate policy strategies and the consequences for developing countries

Michaelowa, Axel - 2001

So far, the dominant paradigm in international climate policy has been mitigation while adaptation has been a low-key issue. However, with LDCs starting to push for adaptation side payments it has recently gained importance. The allocation of funds and the definition of adaptation activities are...

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Regional adjustment dynamics

Möller, Joachim - 2001

The aim of the paper is to develop a theoretical framework for analyzing regional adjustment processes after idiosyncratic shocks. The model builds on the macroeconomic approach with monopolistic competition on goods and labor markets. It is shown how interregional factor mobility affects...

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Transfers, agglomeration and German unification

Ross, Matthias - 2001

This paper analyses in the framework of a 2-region economic geography model the impact of transfers on agglomeration of economic activity. Two main results can be derived: First, subsidies to the activity of firms are more efficient to avoid agglomeration than subsidies to consumers (social...

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Impeded industrial restructuring: The growth penalty

Audretsch, David B.; Carree, Martin A.; van Stel, André J. - 2000

This paper documents that a process of industrial restructuring has been transforming the developed economies, where large corporations are accounting for less economic activity and small firms are accounting for a greater share of economic activity. Not all countries, however, are experiencing...

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Ten years after: What is special about transition countries?

Gros, Daniel; Suhrcke, Marc - 2000

Most countries commonly classified as „in transition“ are still recognisably different from other countries with a similar income per capita in some respects: a larger share of their work force is in industry, they use more energy, they have a more extensive infrastructure and invest more in...

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