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Climate policy and the problem of competitiveness : border tax adjustments or integrated emission trading?

Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria (contributor); … - 2008

In the absence of an international agreement on climate policy, unilateral carbon abatement creates two problems: It tends to have a detrimental effect on domestic competitiveness, and it leads to an increase in carbon emissions abroad (leakage). This paper analyses two policies that have...

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Lost in translation : empirical evidence for liability of foreignness as barries to knowledge spillovers

Schmidt, Tobias (contributor); Sofka, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2006

Entering host country networks of knowledge flows (new competencies, innovative technologies, and lead-market knowledge) is a major rationale of multinational firms for investing abroad. Foreign firms find it difficult to overcome cultural and social barriers which make their foreign engagements...

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Country-by-country reporting : tension between transparency and tax planning

Evers, Maria Theresia; Meier, Ina; Spengel, Christoph - 2017

Aggressive tax planning efforts of highly profitable multinational companies (Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS)) have become the subject of intense public debate in recent years. As a response, several international initiatives and parties have called for more transparency in financial...

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Market and technology access through firm acquisitions : beyond one size fits all

Grimpe, Christoph (contributor); … - 2008

Firm acquisitions have been shown to serve as a way to gain access to international markets, technological assets, products or other valuable resources of the target firm. Given this heterogeneity of takeover motivations and the skewness of the distribution of the deal value we show whether and...

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Modelling of foreign trade in applied general equilibrium models : theoretical approaches and sensitivity analysis with the GEM-E3 model

Koschel, Henrike; Schmidt, Tobias F. N. - 1998

The specification of the world closure, i.e. the way of closing the domestic economy model by incorporating the … all countries. This paper looks explicitly at the assumptions concerning the trade behaviour of the rest of the world that … world's export supply function in which a constant finite price elasticity is introduced. The second change concerns the …

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What drives changes in carbon emissions? : an index decomposition approach for 40 countries

Schymura, Michael; Voigt, Sebastian - 2014

the world’s top ten emitters, in only three countries – China, Germany and Canada – the main driver of an improved …

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Sailing into a dilemma : an economic and legal analysis of an EU trading scheme for maritime emissions

Hermeling, Claudia; Klement, Jan Henrik; Koesler, Simon; … - 2014

On the basis of a joint economic and legal analysis, we evaluate the effects of a “regional” (European) emission trading scheme aiming at reducing emissions of international shipping. The focus lies on the question which share of emissions from maritime transport activities to and from the...

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The goals of sustainable development and the reform of the EU banana trade regime : a discussion of different trade instruments

Osório-Peters, Suhita - 1998

Ideally a new reform of the EU trade regime for bananas (COMB) should be equipped in a way that it makes a long-term contribution to the realisation of sustainable goals, or at least does not prevent them. From a point of view of sustainable development, a trade restriction measure has to...

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Are intangibles more productive in ICT-intensive industries? : evidence from EU countries

Chen, Wen; Niebel, Thomas; Saam, Marianne - 2014

Using sectoral intangible investment data we confirm that intangible capital is a significant determinant of labour productivity growth. The sectoral setting further allows us to identify the differential impacts of intangible capital across industries with varying degrees of ICT intensity....

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Peeling the onion : analyzing aggregate, national and sectoral energy intensity in the European Union

Löschel, Andreas; Pothen, Frank; Schymura, Michael - 2015

exercise using the World Input-Output Database (WIOD), a harmonized dataset comprising time-series of input-output tables along …

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