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Country Risk Ratings of Small Island Tourism Economies

Shareef, Riaz - 2004

livelihood of islands with small populations and territory which are present in each of the world's great oceans. The Small … peripheral. In spite of the vast diversity as well as similarities, researchers are fascinated by the world of small island …

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Climate and the Destination Choice of German Tourists

Hamilton, Jacqueline M. - 2004

The attractiveness of a tourist destination is partly dependent on its environmental and climatic resource base. Climate change can be expected to have an effect on this attractiveness and will subsequently alter patterns of demand. An application of the pooled travel cost model using survey...

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Cross-Country Ethical Dilemmas in Business: A Descriptive Framework

Ferro, Nicoletta - 2004

As businesses span the globe, multinational and translational companies conduct their business operations in foreign settings, especially in developing countries and in countries in transition from Communist regimes. This poses new challenges to expatriate managers and to home-based staff in...

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International Cooperation to Resolve International Pollution Problems

Finus, Michael - 2004

This article provides a non-technical overview of important results of the game theoretical literature on the formation and stability of international environmental agreements (IEAs) on transboundary pollution control. It starts out by sketching features of first and second best solutions to the...

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Conditional Correlations in the Returns on Oil Companies Stock Prices and Their Determinants

Manera, Matteo; Giovannini, Massimo; Grasso, Margherita; … - 2004

The identification of the forces that drive stock returns and the dynamics of their associated volatilities is a major concern in empirical economics and finance. This analysis is particularly relevant for determining optimal hedging strategies based on whether shocks to the volatilities of...

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Economics: An Emerging Small World?

Goyal, Sanjeev; van der Leij, Marco; Moraga-Gonzàlez, … - 2004

period. We find that in the 1970's this world was quite fragmented with the largest interconnected group { the giant …, leading us to conclude that economics is an emerging small world. A crucial stable feature of the network over this period is … themselves). The world of economics is thus a collection of inter-linked stars. We also find that a growth in the average number …

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Economy-Wide Estimates of the Implications of Climate Change: Sea Level Rise

Roson, Roberto; Bosello, Francesco; Lazzarin, Marco; … - 2004

The economy-wide implications of sea level rise in 2050 are estimated using a static computable general equilibrium model. Overall, general equilibrium effects increase the costs of sea level rise, but not necessarily in every sector or region. In the absence of coastal protection, economies...

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The Impact of Surplus Sharing on The Stability of International Climate Agreements

Weikard, Hans-Peter; Altamirano-Cabrera, Juan-Carlos; … - 2004

This paper analyses stability of coalitions for greenhouse gas abatement for different sharing rules applied to the gains from co-operation. We use a 12-regions model designed to examine internal and external stability of coalitions (STACO). We compare different sharing rules like, for example,...

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Market-based Options for Security of Energy Supply

Egenhofer, Christian; Gialoglou, Kyriakos; Luciani, Giacomo - 2004

Energy market liberalization and international economic interdependence have affected governments' ability to react to security of supply challenges. On the other side, whereas in the past security of supply was largely seen as a national responsibility, the frame of reference has increasingly...

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Transport Energy Security. The Unseen Risk?

Fisk, David - 2004

transport sector of the world's economies, which in its turn reflects the strategic dominance of transport within economies. The …

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