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Ernährungssicherung im südlichen Afrika: Der Einfluß der Südafrikanischen Zollunion

Herrmann, Roland - 1988

Alle Studien zum Ernährungssicherungsproblem, die einen weltweiten Ansatz wählen, kommen zum einheitlichen Ergebnis, daß Afrika die Problemregion ist. Während in den Entwicklungsländern insgesamt, in Asien und Lateinamerika die Nahrungsmittelproduktion pro Kopf im Zeitraum 1961-80 gestiegen...

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Contagion between European and US banks: Evidence from equity prices

Fricke, Daniel - 2010

This paper employs an Extreme Value Theory framework to investigate the existence of contagion between European and US banks. The fact that many regulators have no detailed data sets about interbank cross-exposures raises the necessity of finding market-based indicators in order to analyze the...

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What can the ECB learn from Bundesbank interventions? Evidence on the link between exchange rate volatility and interventions

Döpke, Jörg; Pierdzioch, Christian - 1999

Using daily Bundesbank foreign exchange market intervention data, we employ a multinomial logit approach to estimate an intervention reaction function for the German Central Bank using options implied volatilities and the deviation of the exchange rate from its target level as explanatory...

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Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Thiele, Rainer - 2009

This paper evaluates the effect of AIDS-related mortality on per-capita incomes of surviving household members, using a … AIDS is likely to be the endogenous outcome of individual behavior, we employ a difference-in-difference propensity score … departed or joined for reasons related to AIDS. A likely explanation for this finding is that surviving household members …

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Weltweiter Patentschutz für pharmazeutische Innovationen: gibt es sozialverträgliche Alternativen?

Stolpe, Michael - 2001

This paper discusses alternative incentive mechanisms for encouraging pharmaceutical innovations that support global health policy priorities. Patent buyouts, in which a public fund pays a mark-up on private valuations from sealed-bid second-price auctions, would boost the efficiency of research...

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Optimal sequencing of antiretroviral drug cocktails under uncertainty and irreversibility

Bezabih, Mintewab; Stolpe, Michael - 2007

This paper develops a real options approach to the optimal sequencing of antiretroviral drug cocktails for HIV/AIDS …

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The welfare costs of HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe: An empirical assessment using the economic value-of-life approach

Fimpel, Julia; Stolpe, Michael - 2006

optimization model to determine the aggregate welfare losses from HIV/AIDS in 25 Eastern European countries. Assuming a discount …

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Throwing foreign aid at HIV/AIDS in developing countries: Missing the target?

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2010

We assess empirically whether foreign official development assistance (ODA) has been effective in alleviating HIV/AIDS …-in-difference-in-differences approach to identify the treatment effect of ODA specifically meant to fight sexually transmitted diseases on HIV/AIDS …, conclusive evidence on significant treatment effects on AIDS-related deaths only exists for the major bilateral source of ODA …

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Democracy and Aid Donorship

Fuchs, Andreas; Müller, Angelika - 2018

Almost half of the world’s states provide bilateral development assistance. While previous research takes the set of donor countries as exogenous, this article is the first to explore the determinants of aid donorship. We hypothesize that democratic institutions reduce poor countries’...

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