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Can trade really hurt?: an empirical follow-up on Samuelson's controversial paper

Bitzer, Jürgen; Görg, Holger; Schröder, Philipp J. H. - 2008

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The Democratic transition: a study of the causality between income and the Gastil democracy index

Gundlach, Erich; Paldam, Martin - 2008

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Liberalization and regulation of international capital flows: where the opposites meet

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2001

The paper discusses the pros and cons of capital account liberalization. Rather than contrasting liberalization and regulation of capital flows as irreconcilable antagonisms, we argue that capital account liberalization requires institutional and regulatory safeguards. Even though the...

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Economic impact of climate change: simulations with a regionalized climate-economy model

Deke, Oliver; Hooss, Kurt Georg; Kasten, Christiane; … - 2001

Climate change affects the physical and biological system in many regions of the world. The extent to which human … disaggregated framework to analyze adaptation to climate change in different regions of the world. It turns out that vulnerability …

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Weltweiter Patentschutz für pharmazeutische Innovationen: gibt es sozialverträgliche Alternativen?

Stolpe, Michael - 2001

This paper discusses alternative incentive mechanisms for encouraging pharmaceutical innovations that support global health policy priorities. Patent buyouts, in which a public fund pays a mark-up on private valuations from sealed-bid second-price auctions, would boost the efficiency of research...

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Globalisierung der Weltwirtschaft und Stoffströme

Klepper, Gernot - 2001

Der Globalisierungsprozess der Weltwirtschaft und seine Auswirkungen auf globale Stoffströme werden kontrovers diskutiert. Die einen sehen darin einen Wohlfahrtsgewinn für alle Volkswirtschaften, die sich der internationalen Arbeitsteilung geöffnet haben, die anderen befürchten soziale...

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Umbaupläne und Reparaturarbeiten an der internationalen Finanzarchitektur: eine Zwischenbilanz aus deutscher Perspektive

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2001

Die Forderungen von Globalisierungskritikern nach einem radikalen Umbau der internationalen Finanzmarktordnung sind von den wirtschaftspolitischen Entscheidungsträgern aus guten Gründen abgelehnt worden. Vorzuwerfen ist den Entscheidungsträgern allerdings, dass auch ökonomisch sinnvolle...

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Demutualization, Outsider Ownership and Stock Exchange Performance - Empirical Evidence

Serifsoy, Baris - 2005

Academic contributions on the demutualization of stock exchanges so far have been predominantly devoted to social welfare issues, whereas there is scarce empirical literature referring to the impact of a governance change on the exchange itself. While there is consensus that the case for...

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Shooting the messenger of good news: a critical look at the World Bank's success story of effective aid

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2002

In a report presented at the UN Conference on Financing for Development in March 2002, the World Bank claims that the … policies. However, the World Bank's success story rests on an extremely weak foundation: First, the institution's contribution … the distribution of World Bank financing. Second, the picture portrayed in the report takes a bad turn if only two …

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Fancy a stay at the Hotel California? Foreign direct investment, taxation and exit costs

Görg, Holger - 2003

This paper looks at the trade off between investment incentives and exit costs for the location of foreign direct investment (FDI). This issue does not appear to have been tackled in much detail in the literature. The analysis considers the effect of profit taxation (as a measure of investment...

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