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Long-term vs. Short-term Contracts; A European perspective on natural gas

Neuhoff, Karsten; von Hirschhausen, Christian - 2005

liberalisation. The paper is motivated by the increasingly tense debate in continental Europe, UK and the US on the security of long …

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Relationship Between Trade Liberalisation, Economic Growth and Trade Balance: An Econometric Investigation

Parikh, Ashok; Stirbu, Corneliu - 2004

trade liberalisation on economic growth, investment share of GDP, openness, trade balance and current accounts (as … percentages of GDP). Both panel data and country by country data are used to measure the impact of liberalisation on domestic … growth is often positively related to liberalisation for many countries of our sample. Next we analyse the impact of growth …

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Firm Size Distribution and Performance of Maize and Fertilizer Traders After Market Liberalisation: Evidence from Kenya

Mose, Lawrence Obae; Burger, Kees - 2006

Improvement in the performance of agricultural markets was the ultimate goal of market liberalisation. In this paper … inadequate business experience, new entrants opt to start small. These younger traders relative to time of market liberalisation … marketing costs for marketing maize and fertilizer, as envisaged by proponents of market liberalisation. Both marketing margins …

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A bortermelés struktúrájának változásai

Brazsil, David - 2009

A szőlő-bor vertikum termelési oldalán jelentős koncentrációs folyamatok kez¬dődtek. A koncentráció egyik motorja a befektetők, akik az 1980-as évektől jelentek meg nagy számban az ágazatban. Stratégiájukat alapvetően az alapanyaghoz való hozzáférés, a terjeszkedési...

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Institutional determinants of investment in transition economies

Dang, V - 2009

Investment has been found to be a significant determinant of growth. This paperanalyses the effects of institutions and transition progress on investment rates oftransition economies since the collapse of the Socialist Bloc. Political institution ismeasured by the Freedom House’s Political...

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Sustaining fixed rates: The political economy of currency pegs in Latin America

Blomberg, S. Brock; Frieden, Jeffry; Stein, Ernesto - 2005

Government exchange rate regime choice is constrained by both political and economic factors. One political factor is the role of special interests: the larger the tradable sectors exposed to international competition, the less likely is the maintenance of a fixed exchange rate regime. Another...

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Incentive Contracts for Politicians

Liessem, Verena - 2003

The thesis studies the potential of incentive contracts for politicians using game-theoretic methods. Supplementing the election mechanism with these contracts is a new idea to make politicians more accountable. Two types of incentive contracts are considered: a) monetary incentive contracts...

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Argentina: the 1997 parliamentary elections (lower house)

Lauga, Martín - 1998

This article analizes the 26 October 1997 Argentinian elections (partial renewal of the lower chamber) from a … historical-comparative perspective. The article also examines the consequences of the elections results on the development of the …

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Democracy, Crises, and Misconceptions

Beilharz, Hans-Jörg - 2005

We consider misconceptions about the functioning of the economy as one possible explanation for the emergence of crises in democracies. Furthermore, we study a political process which may lead to successful reform. First of all, we show that voters can make inefficient decisions concerning...

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Essays on Budgetary Institutions: Theory and Evidence

Amoroso, Nicolas Emiliano - 2006

The dissertation offers an analysis of the role of budgetary institutions on the determination of fiscal outcomes. In the second chapter I provide a theoretical model that rationalizes differences in fiscal outcomes of two countries that are supposed to obey the same set of numerical constraints...

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