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Investment policies and telecommunications regimes

Drabek, Zdenek - 2002

telecommunications industry. We analyse in particular the role of the WTO agreement in furthering liberalization around the world, and …

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Is it time for a world currency?

Shams, Rasul - 2002

recent opposite views on the appropriateness of a common world currency for this purpose. Referring to an adequately … formulated theory of world money, it is shown that there is presently no alternative to a flexible exchange rate system. This … system might, under specific conditions, gradually evolve into a world monetary system with a global currency. Developing …

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Why do countries form regions? The political economy of regional integration

Shams, Rasul - 2002

it considers regional groupings as strategical coalitions with a deep impact on the future of the world economy. … und der Dynamik ihrer Entwicklung durch verschiedene Stadien. Schließlich werden regionale Gruppierungen als strategische …

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Transaction costs of the Kyoto mechanisms

Michaelowa, Axel; Stronzik, Marcus - 2002

current estimates of world market prices for greenhouse gas emission permits, projects with annual emission reductions of less …

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Integration effects in border regions: A survey of economic theory and empirical studies

Niebuhr, Annekatrin; Stiller, Silvia - 2002

Grenzregionen noch umfassende Untersuchungen der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung von Grenzregionen. Insgesamt zeigt dieser Überblick …

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Do transnational corporations care about labour standards?

Busse, Matthias - 2002

This paper explores the relationship between foreign direct investment, or the activities of transnational corporations, and core labour standards. It discusses the channels through which labour standards may influence foreign direct investment and presents the results of an empirical test of...

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Protektion passé?

Hasse, Rolf H. - 2002

Die Frage nach dem Stand und der Entwicklung des Handelsprotektionismus wird vielfach vereinfachend beantwortet: Danach …

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Trade and investment effects of forced labour: An empirical assessment

Busse, Matthias; Braun, Sebastian - 2002

This paper explores the international economic effects of forced labour, namely the linkages of forced labour with comparative advantage (trade) and foreign direct investment flows. It discusses several forms and the prevalence of forced labour and presents the results of empirical tests of...

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Standards in the international telecommunications regime

Werle, Raymund - 2001

Entwicklung neuer internationaler Standards. Nur Standards, die von offiziellen Organisationen verabschiedet wurden, werden …

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Making GHG emissions trading work – Crucial issues in designing national and international emmissions trading systems

Butzengeiger, Sonja; Betz, Regina; Bode, Sven - 2001

Art. 17 of the Kyoto Protocol defines International Emissions Trading exclusively on country level, sub-national entities like industrial installations or households are not included initially. However, there are some arguments for such an expansion, of which the most important ones are a...

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