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This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign …
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of donor generosity, aid effectiveness and new means of financing. However, the development orientation of world leaders …
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Non-traditional source countries of FDI play an increasingly important role, notably in developing host countries. This raises the question of whether the determinants of FDI differ systematically between traditional and non-traditional source countries. We perform Logit and Poisson Pseudo...
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Der Beitrag analysiert die internationalen Produktionsverlagerungen und Investitionsverflechtungen in der Automobilindustrie, um die These zu überprüfen, dass es selbst bei der Herstellung relativ wissensund technologieintensiver Güter zu einem nachdrängenden Wettbewerb aus Ländern mit...
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It is a widely held belief that foreign direct investment (FDI) has a positive effect on economic growth. We test this hypothesis by performing convergence regressions derived from a model of endogenous technological change. We estimate the rate of growth in per-capita income, relative to the...
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. This will reduce the world CO2 price significantly. The impact of supporting foreign firms and of reducing import tariffs …
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Im Juni 2002 hat der Deutsche Bundestag die Befreiung sämtlicher Biokraftstoffe von der Mineralölsteuer beschlossen. Eine solche Förderung von Biokraftstoffen wird von der Politik durch positive Effekte auf die Klima-, Energie- und Agrarpolitik gerechtfertigt. Das Arbeitspapier analysiert am...
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We describe the determinants of energy intensity, carbon intensity, and CO2 emissions in the German manufacturing sector between 1995 and 2007, applying the LMDI index decomposition technique not to aggregate but to micro data. We trace back changes in total CO2 emissions from manufacturing to...
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achieved predominantly by improving energy efficiency and by curbing the consumption of natural gas and petroleum products, but …
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