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Internationalisierung der Wettbewerbspolitik: Korrelat zur internationalen Handelspolitik?

Koopmann, Georg - 2000

Die Liberalisierung und Integration von Märkten kann zu einer deutlichen Verstärkung negativer externer Effekte der Wettbewerbspolitik der Behörden und der Wettbewerbsstrategien der Unternehmen eines Landes in anderen Ländern führen. Dieser Entwicklung könnte durch eine...

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Defining investment additionality for CDM projects: Practical approaches

Langrock, Thomas; Michaelowa, Axel; Greiner, Sandra - 2000

The environmental integrity of the CDM under the Kyoto Protocol depends on the possibility to avoid giving emission credits to projects that would have happened anyway. Whether and how ?Investment Additionality? of CDM projects has to be determined is currently part of climate negotiations. We...

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Culture and finance in a globalised world – An uneasy relation

Reszat, Beate - 2000

thereby also perhaps their influence on the culture world: The ever-increasing proportion of financial decisions made in so …-called 'non-places' and the role of finance in a virtual world. … Finanzzentren der Welt in immer stärkerem Wettbewerb zueinander stehen, und Kultur ist ein bestimmendes Element der …

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Why do we need a general agreement on movements of people (GAMP)?

Straubhaar, Thomas - 2000

This paper argues that global games need global rules. Times of globalisation call for an international framework to regulate efficiently international movements of people. More than ever before, migration is a global phenomenon. This paper discusses the economic necessity of a shift from...

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FDI versus cross-border financial services: The globalisation of German banks

Buch, Claudia M.; Lipponer, Alexander - 2004

The choice between foreign direct investment (FDI) and exports has been a recurrent theme in the literature on international trade, yet few studies have analysed this choice at the level of the individual firm. This paper uses a new dataset to study the FDI-versus-exports decision for banks. We...

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Budgetary Policy and Unemployment Dynamics

von Thadden, Leopold; Kaas, Leo - 2001

We consider a dynamic general equilibrium model with collective wage bargaining and investigate how unemployment dynamics are affected by two types of budgetary policies. In line with traditional reasoning, a balanced-budget rule amplifies fluctuations in the short run, whereas an...

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Comparing the value revelance of R&D reporting in Germany: standard and selection effects

Ramb, Fred; Reitzig, Markus - 2005

On the basis of accounting and market data for firms and groups listed on German stock exchanges between 1997 and 2003, we show that the value relevance of R&D information under German accounting standards can be superior to that provided by US-GAAP and IAS. The results, obtained while...

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How good are dynamic factor models at forecasting output and inflation? A meta-analytic approach

Ziegler, Christina; Eickmeier, Sandra - 2006

estimation technique seems to matter as well. Other potential determinants - namely whether forecasters rely on a balanced or an …

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Does Benford's law hold in economic research and forecasting?

Günnel, Stefan; Tödter, Karl-Heinz - 2007

First and higher order digits in data sets of natural and socio-economic processes often follow a distribution called Benford's law. This phenomenon has been used in many business and scientific applications, especially in fraud detection for financial data. In this paper, we analyse whether...

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The welfare effects of inflation: a cost-benefit perspective

Tödter, Karl-Heinz; Manzke, Bernhard - 2007

This paper reviews theory and evidence of the welfare effects of inflation from a costbenefit perspective. Basic models and selected empirical results are discussed. Historically, in assessing the welfare effects of inflation, the distortion of money demand played a prominent role. More...

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