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Endogenous Minimum Participation in International Environmental Treaties

Carraro, Carlo; Marchiori, Carmen; Oreffice, Sonia - 2003

Many international treaties come into force only after a minimum number of countries have signed and ratified the treaty. Why do countries agree to introduce a minimum participation constraint among the rules characterising an international treaty? This question is particularly relevant in the...

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Towards the Green Environment.Comparison of Environmental Impacts of Urban Public Transport and Automobiles

Gommers, Michael - 1999

This study compares the environmental impacts of urban public transport and automobiles (energy use, emissions, noise nuisance, waste materials and use of space). For this purpose two models have been developed FACTS-Urban (Forecasting air pollution by car traffic simulation) and MILOV...

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Education, economic growth and measured income inequality

Rehme, Günther - 2006

In this paper education simultaneously affects growth and income inequality. More education does not necessarily decrease inequality when the latter is assessed by the Lorenz dominance criterion. Increases in education first increase and then decrease growth as well as income inequality, when...

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Endogenous policy and cross-country growth empirics

Rehme, Günther - 2007

In this paper it is shown that it matters a lot for empirical research whether policy is taken to be exogenously set or … to be endogenous. In the model investment depends on policy which depends on economically important fundamentals and is …, thus, endogenous. Conditioning on factor accumu- lation in growth regressions that also include endogenous policy variables …

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Foundations of high impact entrepreneurship

Ács, Zoltán J. - 2008

This survey reviews the theoretical literature on high impact entrepreneurship. The survey is guided in part by the recent classification changes at the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) regarding entrepreneurship. The board voted to create a new classification code, L26, for...

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The Measurement of Social Exclusion

D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Chakravarty, Satya R. - 2003

This paper develops an axiomatic approach to the measurement of social exclusion. At the individual level, social exclusion is viewed in terms of deprivation of the person concerned with respect to different functionings in the society. At the aggregate level we treat social exclusion as a...

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The redistributive effects of monetary policy

Ledoit, Olivier - 2011

We introduce a model of the economy as a social network. Two agents are linked to the extent that they transact with each other. This generates well-defined topological notions of location, neighborhood and closeness. We investigate the implications of our model for monetary economics. When a...

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