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Die sozialen Klassen im ethnisch heterogenen Milieu: Ein soziologischer Ansatz zur Erklärung der Unterschiede der Einkommensverteilung in den Ländern der Welt

Haller, Max - 2011

Die Einkommensverteilung innerhalb der verschiedenen Länder der Welt weist enorme Unterschiede auf. Diese Form der … Schichtungsmuster herausgearbeitet werden, die in verschiedenen Regionen und Kulturen der Welt entwickelt worden sind. Dabei werden drei …Income inequality differs tremendously across the countries of the world. It remains central even in the age of …

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The evolution of aggregate stock ownership

Rydqvist, Kristian; Spizman, Joshua; Strebulaev, Ilya - 2011

Since World War II, direct stock ownership by households has largely been replaced by indirect stock ownership by …

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The emerging new architecture of financial regulation

Goodhart, Charles - 2011

. In view of the power and predominance of the USA, it makes little sense for the rest of the world to try to press ahead …

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Disclosure, transparency, and market discipline

Freixas, Xavier; Laux, Christian - 2011

The aim of this paper is to examine what has been the role of information provision to the market throughout the crisis. We consider two main sources of information to the market, financial statements and information provided by credit rating agencies. We examine how these sources of information...

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Climate risks and carbon prices: Revising the social cost of carbon

Ackerman, Frank; Stanton, Elizabeth A. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012) 2012-10, pp. 1-25

The social cost of carbon - or marginal damage caused by an additional ton of carbon dioxide emissions - has been estimated by a U.S. government working group at $21/tCO2 in 2010. That calculation, however, omits many of the biggest risks associated with climate change, and downplays the impact...

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Trade policy versus trade facilitation: An application using good old OLS

Márquez-Ramos, Laura; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012) 2012-11, pp. 1-38

Trade policy barriers are only one element of overall trade costs. Among these, and due to the decrease in the influence of tariff barriers on trade over time, institutional barriers might increase in relative importance and become a key obstacle to the movements of goods across countries. This...

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Intellectual property rights and the WTO

Budzinski, Oliver; Monostori, Katalin - 2012

In the context of the WTO, intellectual property rights (IPR) are codified in the TRIPS-agreement. While covering all the different types of IPR, landmark cases of the still young history of TRIPS have dealt with commercial copyrights. This paper summarizes the basic economics of the IPR branch...

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Investigating JEEM empirically: A story of co-authorship and collaboration

Schymura, Michael; Löschel, Andreas - 2012

We examine the incidence and extent of co-authorship and intellectual collaboration in the leading journal of environmental and resource economics: the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. Previous studies of general economic journals have offered empirical evidence for the fact...

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Openness to international trade and economic growth: A cross-country empirical investigation

Ulaşan, Bülent - 2012

In this paper, we revisit the empirical evidence on the relationship between trade openness and long-run economic growth over the sample period 1960-2000. In contrast to previous studies focusing mainly on the period 1970-1990, this paper reassesses the openness-growth nexus over a much longer...

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Erneuerbare Energien als Hoffnungsträger

Bräuninger, Michael; Wohlers, Eckhardt; Wenzel, Lars - 2012

Erneuerbare Energien haben als Energieträger insbesondere in den vergangenen 10 Jahren erheblich an Bedeutung gewonnen. Dafür sind vor allem zwei Faktoren verantwortlich: Zum einen das Streben nach Energiesicherheit und die Verpflichtungen zum Umwelt- bzw. Klimaschutz. Zum anderen die...

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