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Eichengreen, Barry; Gupta, Poonam - 2009

The positive association between the service sector share of output and per capita income is one of the best-known regularities in all of growth and development economics. Yet there is less than complete agreement on the nature of that association. Here we identify two waves of service sector...

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Financial transactions taxes

Shome, Parthasarathi - 2011

This paper attempts to address both theoretical and practical considerations for a tax such as financial transactions taxes (FTT). It includes examples of FTT in the wider context, for example, on stocks and derivatives, currency transactions, and tangible property. Most of the discussion...

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Die Anrechnung natürlicher und anthropogener Effekte auf terrestri-sche Ökosysteme im Rahmen des Kyoto-Protokolls

Jänsch, Janina - 2011

der Atmosphäre. Die globale Klimaerwärmung bringt massive Folgen mit sich, die bereits heute in Teilen der Welt spürbar …

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Since World War II, direct stock ownership by households has largely been replaced by indirect stock ownership by …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