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The WTO and environmental provisions: three categories of trade and environment linkage
Khalilian, Setareh - 2009
The current WTO jurisdiction on linkages of trade and environment is not free of contradictions and has provided for heated debate due to some inconsistencies in past WTO rulings. The article argues that the WTO jurisdiction is not only unclear but also lacks economic reasoning. It aims to...
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Toward a new comparative public law of central bank legislation: Designing legislative mandates for central bank private securities assets purchases and nominal GDP targeting
Michael, Bryane; Osaulenko, Svitlana - In: Journal of Central Banking Theory and Practice 10 (2021) 1, pp. 5-38
What role could unconventional monetary policy - and particularly unconventional policies like private asset purchases under a quantitative easing or lender of last resort scheme - play in influencing economic growth directly? A wide literature in economics explores the pros and cons of using...
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Competition policy and poverty reduction: A holistic approach
Anderson, Robert D.; Müller, Anna Caroline - 2013
This paper examines the role of competition law and policy as tools for poverty reduction and development. The authors put forward five related principles, building upon the important work on related issues that has been done by the OECD, the International Competition Network (ICN), UNCTAD and...
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Politicians: be killed or survive
Frey, Bruno S.; Torgler, Benno - 2008
In the course of history, a large number of politicians have been assassinated. Rational choice hypotheses are developed and tested using panel data covering more than 100 countries over a period of 20 years. Several strategies, in addition to security measures, are shown to significantly reduce...
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The Impact of Education on Crime: International Evidence
Hjalmarsson, Randi; Lochner, Lance - In: CESifo DICE Report 10 (2012) 2, pp. 49-55
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Kyoto-Protokoll, Wettbewerb und WTO-Handelssystem
Shin, Soonjae - 2003
Es wird häufig angenommen, dass nationale und grenzüberschreitende Klimapolitik, die aufgrund des Kyoto-Protokolls in den Industriestaaten eingeführt wird, durch die Einschränkung der Nutzung fossiler Energieträger ökonomische Kosten verursacht. Damit kann es zwischen den...
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Street Prostitution Zones and Crime
Bisschop, Paul; Kastoryano, Stephen; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2015
This paper studies the effects of introducing legal street prostitution zones on both registered and perceived crime. We exploit a unique setting in the Netherlands where legal street prostitution zones were opened in nine cities under different regulation systems. We provide evidence that the...
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Why Sanctions Against Russia Work
Rácz, András; Spillner, Ole; Wolff, Guntram B. - In: Intereconomics 58 (2023) 1, pp. 52-55
Since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Russia has been under an EU sanctions regime. While these sanctions have not prevented Putin from ordering an invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, in the overall picture, they have significantly weakened Russia's ability to wage war. This paper...
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Economic and legal aspects of international environmental agreements: The case of enforcing and stabilising an international CO 2 agreement
Heister, Johannes; Mohr, Ernst; Plesmann, Wolf; … - 1995
The protection of the global environment is impeded by multilateral externalities which the international community attempts to bring under control by entering into international agreements. International agreements, however, can suffer from non-compliance and free-riding behaviour by sovereign...
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Financial impact of regulatory sanctions on French listed companies
de Batz, Laure - 2018
named in a sanction report, as an offender, an acquitted, or a victim of others' financial misconduct conveys information to … after both the sanction decision, and its publication (respectively -0.9% and -1.1% from the day preceding the event until 3 … correction on the market, depending on the step of the procedure. Finally, companies named in a sanction report as victims of …
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