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Das Kyoto-Protokoll zur UN-Klimarahmenkonvention setzt verbindliche Treibhausgasemissionsziele für Industrieländer, die allerdings erst im Zeitraum 2008-2012 gelten. Da für die Zeit bis 2008 mit einem erheblichen Emissionsanstieg zu rechnen ist, wird über Ansätze nachgedacht, schon vorher...
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All advanced industrialized societies face the problem of air pollution produced by motor vehicles. In spite of striking improvements in internal combustion engine technology, air pollution in most urban areas is still measured at levels determined to be harmful to human health. Throughout the...
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This paper provides an economic assessment of export credit guarantee commitments by the Austrian export credit agency … relative importance of various determinants of export guarantee usage. Results suggest that the most crucial determinants are … second step, we investigate the effects of export guarantees on export performance. Identification is achieved by using as …
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export-oriented industries will be hit harder than the actual value of exports. …
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and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation … and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm …-specific financial constraints. We find that financial constraints restraint heability of domestically owned firms to innovate and export …
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This paper analyses to what extent the decision to start exporting may be subject to spillovers of the internationalisation behaviour of other (foreign and domestic) firms. We distinguish between two possible channels: effects on productivity and effects on the perceived level of sunk costs of...
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effect of globalization is often neglected leading to implausibly high income elasticities. This paper models export demand … relationships are found and identified as export supply and demand. Overidentifying restrictions derived from economic theory are …
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import functions or exportled growth. Focusing on the US relations with Euroland and Canada, cointegration analyses however …
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We estimate the impact of a negative trade shock on labour market outcomes and educational choices of workers. We exploit the Canadian lumber exports crisis beginning in 2007 in a quasi-experimental design. We find that the employment probability of forestry industry workers decreased by 4.1...
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