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We explain a puzzle from two recent meta-analyses that cover 25 countries and claim to show that inputs systematically move from higher-value to lower-value activities despite strong aggregate labor productivity growth (ALP). These papers use variants of the Baily, Hulten and Campbell (1992)...
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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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Barriers to trade in Environmental Goods (EGs) and Environmental Services (ESs) are documented for a large sample of countries and compared with barriers to trade in other goods and other services. Some progress at reduction in barriers has occurred at the national, regional and sectoral levels...
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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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Despite the importance attributed to the effects of diversity on the stability and prosperity of nations, the origins of the uneven distribution of ethnic and cultural fragmentation across countries have been underexplored. Building on the role of deeply-rooted biogeographical forces in...
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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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