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In a short period of time virtual currencies have gained significant traction and become an economic reality, with Bitcoin being the most dominant among over 500 virtual currencies. Bitcoin and other virtual currencies present a particularly difficult and unique jurisdictional challenge to...
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During 2013, the U.S. Treasury Department evoked the first use of the 2001 Patriot Act to exclude virtual currency provider Liberty Reserve from the U.S. financial system. This article will discuss: the regulation of virtual currencies; cybercrimes and payment systems; darknets, Tor and the...
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Social health care systems around the world are inevitably confronted with the scarcity of resources and the resulting distributional challenges. Prioritization is applied in almost all countries, implicitly or explicitly, and shapes access to health services. We analyze and compare attitudes...
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There has been much study of the consequences of economic freedom but, outside of the role of political institutions …, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic … freedom. Our cross-sectional dataset includes 137 countries averaged over the period 2001-2010. Simple correlations show that …
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There has been much study of the consequences of economic freedom but, outside of the role of political institutions …, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic … freedom. Our cross-sectional dataset includes 137 countries averaged over the period 2001-2010. Simple correlations show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984498
2016 in combination with the Economic Freedom of the World Index, we find that inequality only matters in determining medal …
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Personal freedom is highly valued by many and a central element of liberal political philosophy. Although personal … freedom is frequently associated with electoral democracy, developments in countries such as Hungary, Poland, Turkey and … envisaged unequivocal guarantor of freedom. Instead, an independent judicial system, insulated from everyday politics, might …
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Personal freedom is highly valued by many and a central element of liberal political philosophy. Although personal … freedom is frequently associated with electoral democracy, developments in countries such as Hungary, Poland, Turkey and … envisaged unequivocal guarantor of freedom. Instead, an independent judicial system, insulated from everyday politics, might …
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Questions of burden sharing receive increasing attention in the climate change regime. This paper introduces the WESA-mechanism (WESA = Walrasian Equilibrium with the Stand Alone upper bound) for the fair division of common property resources and monetary compensations. Furthermore, the...
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