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The subsidiarity principle and the negative spread: A case in point for the governance of state-owned banks
Apreda, Rodolfo - 2005
-owned bank. Firstly, it stresses that the principle of subsidiarity is at the root of decision-making processes in which the bank … subsidiarity, putting forward the notion of the subsidiarity portfolio to redress misuses and enhance the governance of these … portfolios'returns, inclusive of the costs-benefit structure, it introduces the rate of subsidiarity. Afterwards it moves on to …
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Föderalismus in der (Corona-)Krise
Stehn, Jürgen - 2021
Der Autor stellt vor dem Hintergrund der ökonomischen Theorie des Föderalismus die Frage, ob dezentrale Kompetenzen …Against the backdrop of the economic theory of federalism, the author examines whether decentralized powers in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012692771
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Soziale Sicherung zwischen Markt und Staat
Schmähl, Winfried (contributor) - 2000
und betrieblichen Sozialpolitik. Dabei sind bisherige Erfahrungen wie auch Reformoptionen Gegenstand kritischer Analysen …, die anläßlich mehrerer Tagungen des Ausschusses für Sozialpolitik (im Verein für Socialpolitik) vorgelegt wurden …
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Green electricity certificates: A supplement to the flexible mechanisms of the Kyoto protocol
Nielsen, Lene; Jeppesen, Tim - 1999
With the liberalisation of the European electricity market, new instruments are searched for in order to co-ordinate climate change initiatives with competition. This paper analyses the potential of a system of green electricity certificates to regulate the introduction of renewable energy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608513
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Pinning down the value of statistical life
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, William Kip; Woock, … - 2007
Our research addresses fundamental long-standing concerns in the compensating wage differentials literature and its public policy implications: the econometric properties of estimates of the value of statistical life (VSL) and the wide range of such estimates from about $0.5 million to about $21...
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Openness, financial markets, and policies: Cross-country and dynamic patterns
Bertola, Giuseppe; Lo Prete, Anna - 2008
We document significant and robust empirical relationships in cross-country panel data between government size or social expenditure on the one hand, and trade and financial development indicators on the other. Across countries, deeper economic integration is associated with more intense...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303691
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Social Policies for a Recovery
Immervoll, Herwig; Llena-Nozal, Ana - 2011
The fallout from the global economic downturn of 2008-09 is a continuing source of stress on families and a constraint on government policies. How can social policies contribute to a quick and equitable recovery from the crisis and how can they best respond to the difficulties that households...
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Does European-style welfare generosity discourage single mother employmnet?
Destro, Lane; Brady, David - 2010
Although many have expressed concern over whether generous welfare policies discourage the employment of single mothers, scholars have rarely exploited cross-national variability in the generosity of social policies to assess this question. This is the case even though much previous scholarship...
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Child poverty and changes in child poverty in rich countries since 1990
Chen, Wen-Hao; Corak, Miles - 2005
This paper documents levels and changes in child poverty rates in 12 OECD countries using data from the Luxembourg Income Study project, and focusing upon an analysis of the reasons for changes over the 1990s. The objective is to uncover the relative role of income transfers from the state in...
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Linkages between pro-poor growth, social programmes and labour market: The recent Brazilian experience
Kakwani, Nanak; Neri, Marcelo; Son, Hyun H. - 2009
This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its globalization process, focusing on the role played by the labour market and social programmes. Methodologically, the paper makes two contributions to the literature. One is the proposal of...
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