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This paper reports the results of experiments designed to examine whether a taste for fairness affects people’s preferred tax structure. Building on the Fehr and Schmidt (1999) model, we devise a simple test for the presence of social preferences in voting for alternative tax structures. The...
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For more than forty years, the gravity equation has been a workhorse for cross-country empirical analyses of international trade flows and, in particular, the effects of free trade agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. However, the gravity equation is subject to the same econometric critique as...
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Financial stability is an important policy objective since crises are associated with big economic, social, and political costs. Promoting stability requires preventing 'sudden stops' in capital flows, which are events in which foreign financing abruptly disappears. This paper contributes to the...
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The last ten years have seen the growth of linkages between many of the world s cap-and-trade systems for greenhouse … loss of control over domestic carbon policies, which do not appear to have deterred real-world decisions to link. These …
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Die Studie "Ernährung und Wasser" geht der Frage nach, wie sich Angebot und Nachfrage auf den Märkten für Nahrungsmittelrohstoffe bis zum Jahr 2030 entwickeln werden. Zudem werden die historischen Entwicklungen und die zu erwartenden (Preis-)Trends für ausgewählte Nahrungsmittel analysiert....
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Wer zwischen 2001 und 2002 in Schiffe investierte - auf dem Höhepunkt der Aktienmarktkrise - der reibt sich jetzt die Hände. Enorme Gewinne sind angefallen. Seit dem Beitritt der Volksrepublik China (im Folgenden stets VRC) zum allgemeinen Freihandelsabkommen der WTO - eben in jenem Jahr 2001...
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Nach Definition der Brundtland-Kommission ist eine Entwicklung nachhaltig, wenn sie "den Bedürfnissen der heutigen Generation entspricht, ohne die Möglichkeiten künftiger Generationen zu gefährden, ihre eigenen Bedürfnisse zu befriedigen und ihren Lebensstil [frei] zu wählen". Diese...
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This research examines variations in the diffusion of agriculture across countries and archaeological sites. The theory suggests that a society´s history of climatic shocks shaped the timing of its adoption of farming. Specifically, as long as climatic disturbances did not lead to a collapse of...
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This research examines the economic origins and spread of Islam in the Old World and uncovers two empirical …
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In the field of mergers and acquisitions, German and international tax law allow for several opportunities to step up a firm's assets, i.e., to revaluate the assets at fair market values. When a step-up is performed the taxpayer recognizes a taxable gain, but also obtains tax benefits in the...
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