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The spread of anti-trafficking policies: Evidence from a new index

Cho, Seo-Young; Dreher, Axel; Neumayer, Eric - 2010

We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...

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Has the financial crisis eroded citizens' trust in the European Central Bank? Panel data evidence for the Euro area, 1999-2011

Roth, Felix; Gros, Daniel; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas - 2012

. Taking panel data and using a fixed effects DFGLS estimation for a 12–country sample over the time period 1999 to 2011 with a …

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Paying a visit: The Dalai Lama Effect on international trade

Fuchs, Andreas; Klann, Nils-Hendrik - 2011

to China. In order to account for the potential endogeneity of meetings with the Dalai Lama, the number of Tibet Support …

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Buying votes and international organizations

Dreher, Axel; Vreeland, James Raymond - 2011

This study explores a basic idea in political economy: Trading money for political influence. Our focus is at the level of international institutions, where governments may exploit their influence in one organization to gain leverage over another. In particular, we consider the lending...

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Discarding food vs. starving people: Inefficient and immoral?

Koester, Ulrich - 2012

on March 13, 2012: Europe's waste would suffice twice to feed the world's hungry. This statement startled many people … dieser Welt zu ernähren. Diese Aussage hat viele Menschen erschreckt. In Europa und anderen wohlhabenden Ländern werden …

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International grain markets: Russia as a new power?

Glauben, Thomas; Pàll, Zsombor; Perekhozhuk, Oleksandr; … - 2012

Russia, a former net importer of wheat, has developed into one of the leading actors in the world wheat market within … the last decade. Forecasts suggest that Russia's share in the world market may increase even further and Russia might … become the world's largest wheat exporter by 2020. One key research question resulting from this development is whether …

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Central banks: Paradise lost

Issing, Otmar - 2012

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Multilateralism and regionalism from an American perspective: Parallels and contrasts with the Langhammer vision

Hufbauer, Gary Clyde - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-9, pp. 1-18

facing the world trading order, and proposes possible ways out of the persistent impasse. Hufbauer argues that the success of …

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Challenges to the multilateral trading system and possible responses

Panagariya, Arvind - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-10, pp. 1-25

institution in charge of it, the World Trade Organization, is in sound health. If anything, the Doha Round has been a victim of …

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Milne, Alistair - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-7, pp. 1-31

A fundamental cause of the global financial crisis was excessive maturity mismatch, notably shadow banking holdings of sub-prime MBS and other structured credit instruments and cross-border Euro area interbank lending to the uncompetitive Euro area periphery. The costs of short term funding do...

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