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A snowball against global warming: An alternative to the Kyoto protocol

Verweij, Marco - 2001

United Nations conference had been an unqualified success, it would still not have made any difference to the world’s climate …. Only a radically different approach to international decision-making can save the world from over-heating. This alternative …

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Standardising as governance: The case of credit rating agencies

Kerwer, Dieter - 2001

The global integration of financial markets has been accompanied by a transformation of their governance structures. Private intermediary organisations now play a more important role than in the past. A prominent example is provided by the commercial credit rating agencies that have established...

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Non-state actors in global governance: Three faces of power

Arts, Bas - 2003

The political power of non-state actors (NSAs) remains a contested issue, as the continuing debates between neo-realists and transnationalists within the Study of International Relations (SIR) show. This paper builds on as well as tries to transcend this debate. Its objective is to bring more...

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Governance in international trade: Judicialisation and positive integration in the WTO

De Bièvre, Dirk - 2004

World Trade Organization (WTO), which operates under conditions of unanimity and has a membership of over 140 sovereign …

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Do Forecasters use Monetary Models? An Empirical Analysis of Exchange Rate Expectations

Schröder, Michael; Dornau, Robert - 2000

Do financial market analysts use structural economic models when forecasting exchange rates? This is the leading question analysed in this apper. In contrast to other studies we use expectations instead of realised data. Therefore we analyse the implicit structural models forecasters have in...

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Volatility of Stock Market Indices - An Analysis based on SEMIFAR Models

Beran, Jan; Ocker, Dirk - 1999

By applying SEMIFAR models (Beran, 1999), we examine 'long memory' in the volatility of worldwide stock market indices. Our analysis yields strong evidence of 'long memory' in stock market volatility, either in terms of stochastic long-range dependence or in form of deterministic trends. In some...

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SEMIFAR Models, with Applications to Commodities, Exchange Rates and the Volatility of Stock Market Indices

Beran, Jan; Feng, Yuanhua; Franke, Günter; Hess, Dieter; … - 1999

The distinction between stationarity, difference stationarity, deterministic trends as well as between short- and long-range dependence has a major impact on statistical conclusions, such as confidence intervals for population quantities or point and interval forecasts. In this paper, recent...

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SEMIFAR Forecasts, with Applications to Foreign Exchange Rates

Beran, Jan; Ocker, Dirk - 1999

SEMIFAR models introduced in Beran (1999) provide a semiparametric modelling framework that enables the data analyst to separate deterministic and stochastic trends as well as short- and long-memory components in an observed time series. A correct distinction between these components, and in...

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Growth, Inequality and Well-Being: Comparisons across Space and Time

Grün, Carola; Klasen, Stephan - 2003

We use several well-being measures that combine average income with a measure of inequality to undertake international, intertemporal, and global comparisons of well-being. The conclusions emerging from the analysis are that our well-being measures drastically change our impression of levels of...

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Growth, Inequality, and Well-Being: Intertemporal and Global Comparisons

Grün, Carola; Klasen, Stephan - 2003

. Our global analysis covering ca. 81 per cent of the world's population demonstrates that global well-being is at least 50 … per cent smaller than world per capita income if the unequal income distribution is also factored in. Conversely, growth … in world well-being has been larger than world income growth between 1970-1998. Since the inclusion of inequality has an …

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