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We examine the effect of private maritime security on international public safety by analyzing International Maritime Organization vessel security data from 2007-2014. During this time a considerable spike in maritime piracy occurred in East Africa, West Africa and East Asia. We exploit the fact...
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Almost everyone can agree that the original connection of intellectual property to trade was for purely economically instrumental purposes but few would have predicted its other consequences, particularly the reshaped relationship of intellectual property’s innovation mandate to the production...
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The objective of this paper is to promote global energy security by evaluating the existing patchwork of institutions and processes linked to the governance of the global energy economy. What we mean by global energy security is the satisfaction of humankind’s energy needs to maintain...
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This book is unique in that it uses trade as a tool to move the climate agenda forward, by presenting the following two new approaches to climate change mitigation: 1) a bottom-up approach to climate change and 2) using regional trade agreements (RTAs) to promote climate change mitigation. The...
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From a current perspective the Paris Agreement is not sufficient to limit the global mean temperature below 2°C above pre-industrial level as intended. The Agreement stipulates that parties review, compare and ratchet up efforts to combat climate change over time. Within this process,...
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From a current perspective the Paris Agreement is not sufficient to limit the global mean temperature below 2°C above pre-industrial level as intended. The Agreement stipulates that parties review, compare and ratchet up efforts to combat climate change over time. Within this process,...
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Der entwicklungsökonomische Diskurs ist aktuell geprägt durch eine kontroverse Debatte zwischen Jeffrey Sachs und William Easterly. Der Beitrag rekonstruiert beide Ansätze aus ordonomischer Perspektive. Er argumentiert, dass eine auf Kooperation angelegte Semantik vergleichsweise besser...
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We quantify the partial and general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive … more. Using these estimates, we simulate the general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO on welfare, which are sizable and … effects from joining GATT/WTO can still gain in terms of welfare, due to lower import prices and higher export demand. …
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equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive database covering manufacturing trade for 186 … general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO on welfare, which are sizable and heterogeneous across members, and relatively small … gain in terms of welfare, due to beneficial terms-of-trade effects. …
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We quantify the partial and general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive … more. Using these estimates, we simulate the general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO on welfare, which are sizable and … effects from joining GATT/WTO can still gain in terms of welfare, due to lower import prices and higher export demand. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014335080