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We study the effect of inflowing remittances - a major source of capital for many countries - on tax-revenues and tax-policy. Instrumenting remittances with changes in the oil-price interacted with a country's distance to oil-producing countries, we find that remittances have a large positive...
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expenditure and development expenditure, due to data availability. However, in most industries only (applied) research will lead … to patentable knowledge, and development happens after the initial research phase that may have led to a patent. Instead … Belgian firms. It turns out that only the 'R' part of R&D expenditure has a significant effect on patents and that development …
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We present a simple model, illustrating how democracy may improve the quality of the economic institutions. The model further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect of democracies on economic institutional quality...
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We explore the role of social mobility as a driver of economic development. First, we map the geography of … that increasing social mobility had a significant and robust effect on the development of Latin American regions. …
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expenditure and development expenditure, due to data availability. However, in most industries only (applied) research will lead … to patentable knowledge, and development happens after the initial research phase that may have led to a patent. Instead … Belgian firms. It turns out that only the 'R' part of R&D expenditure has a significant effect on patents and that development …
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Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents' and children's economic well-being; i.e. low intergenerational mobility. This study is the first to test this relationship in a between-country and within-country setup; using harmonized micro data from 18...
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The assessment of climate change mitigation policies through economic modeling depends crucially on assumptions under … which technological change has been incorporated in the model. Earlier climate-energy-economics modeling attempts heavily …
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International concern about climate change has led to the Kyoto Protocol, negotiated in 1997, which contains legally … of the Protocol celebrate it as a breakthrough in international climate policy, opponents criticize that its approach … important for the further policy process of climate protection. The Kyoto Protocol has established a flexible broad …
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International climate policy has assigned the leading role in emissions abatement to the industrialized countries while …
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Since January 1st the European Union has launched an EU-internal emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) for emission-intensive installations as the central pillar to comply with the Kyoto Protocol. The EU ETS may be linked at some time to a Kyoto emissions market where greenhouse gas emission...
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