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This paper highlights the overlap between private sector and the state in regulating the sustainability of palm oil industry in Indonesia through the presence of two different certification schemes: the voluntary, global market-driven Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and the mandatory,...
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Mit der öffentlichen Debatte um die Transatlantische Handels- und Investitionspartnerschaft (TTIP) ist der Investorenschutz auf der politischen Agenda weit nach oben gerückt. Strittig ist vor allem, ob solche Abkommen tatsächlich nötig sind, um das Vertrauen multinationaler Unternehmen in...
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Im Juliheft 2015 veröffentlichte der Wirtschaftsdienst einen Aufsatz von Henning Klodt und Stefanie Lang zum Treaty Shopping. Sebastian Dullien weist auf eine seiner Auffassung nach fehlerhafte Darstellung des bilateralen Investitionsschutzabkommens zwischen Deutschland und Pakistan aus dem...
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Im Juliheft 2015 veröffentlichte der Wirtschaftsdienst einen Aufsatz von Henning Klodt und Stefanie Lang zum Treaty Shopping. Sebastian Dullien weist auf eine seiner Auffassung nach fehlerhafte Darstellung des bilateralen Investitionsschutzabkommens zwischen Deutschland und Pakistan aus dem...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011773209
The medieval Champagne fairs are widely used to draw lessons about the institutional basis for long-distance impersonal exchange. This paper re-examines the causes of the outstanding success of the Champagne fairs in mediating international trade, the timing and causes of the fairs' decline, and...
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The law and finance theory predicts that the common law system provides the best basis for financial development and economic growth, followed by Scandinavian and German origin civil law and finally French origin civil law. Referring to a number of sceptical views, this paper argues that the...
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transparency relating to effective risk transfer, risk-related management compensation, and credible measurement of rating …
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We study empirically the macroeconomic effects of an explicit de jure quantitative goal for monetary policy. Quantitative goals take three forms: exchange rates, money growth rates, and inflation targets. We analyze the effects on inflation of both having a quantitative target, and of hitting a...
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Transparency has become one of the main features of monetary policymaking during the last decade. This paper … establishes some stylized facts. In addition, it provides a systematic overview of the practice of monetary policy transparency … framework, including inflation targeting. Nevertheless, the paper finds significant differences in transparency across monetary …
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Transparency has become a prominent feature of monetary policy. This paper provides an overview of central bank … communication practices and is the first to systematically analyze transparency trends throughout the world and across monetary … inflation and economic development have undergone larger increases in transparency. Moreover, it shows that greater transparency …
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