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Modern environmental problems are a consequence of human action. They not only pose thepredicament of who is to be held responsible; but exhibit such a complexity, that our ability totake responsibility for interventions into nature at all, is drawn into doubt. And what preciselydoes it mean, to...
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In diesem Aufsatz untersuchen wir die Beziehung von Verantwortung und Kuppelproduktion.Unsere Verantwortung reflektiert unsere Fähigkeit, frei zu handeln. Wir können nur freihandeln, insofern wir für unsere Handlungen und ihre Folgen Verantwortung übernehmen; dieGrenzen unserer Verantwortung...
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Die internationalen Rohstoffmärkte befinden sich seit einigen Jahren in einerPreisrallye. Während private und institutionelle Anleger die gehandelten Warenüberwiegend als Asset-Klasse zur Diversifizierung ihres Portfolios zunutzen versuchen, sind industrielle Unternehmen mit volatilen...
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This paper analyses the importance of common factors in shaping non-fuel commodityprice movements for the period 1957-2008. For this purpose, a dynamic factor modelis estimated using Kalman Filtering techniques. Based on this set-up we are able toseparate common and idiosyncratic developments of...
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Amid the recent commodity price gyrations, policy makers have become increasinglyconcerned in assessing to what extent oil and food price shocks transmit to theinflationary outlook and the real economy. In this paper, we try to tackle this issue bymeans of a Global Vector Autoregressive (GVAR)...
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-experimental methods. I discuss three different areas of research:the life-cycle saving hypothesis and its implication that economic growth …-series behaviorof commodity prices, and the relationship between economic growth and nutritional improvement.None of these projects has …
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