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How Fast are Small Tourist Countries Growing? The 1980-2003 Evidence

Pigliaru, Francesco; Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro - 2007

We analyze the empirical relationship between growth, country size and tourism specialization by using a dataset covering the period 1980-2003. We find that tourism countries grow significantly faster than all the other sub-groups considered in our analysis. Tourism appears to be an independent...

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Trade, Technique and Composition Effects: What is Behind the Fall in World-Wide SO2 Emissions 1990-2000?

Grether, Jean-Marie; Mathys, Nicole A.; de Melo, Jaime - 2007

world-wide SO2 emissions and estimate the impact of trade on emissions. Contrarily to concerns raised by environmentalists …, by allowing clean countries to become net importers of emissions, leads to a 10% increase in world emissions with respect … situations where world emissions are either maximal or minimal. It turns out that effective emissions correspond to a 90 …

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Introducing Imperfect Competition in CGE Models: Technical Aspects and Implications

Roson, Roberto - 2006

This paper considers the technical aspects and the consequences, in terms of simulation results and policy assessment, of introducing imperfect competition in a CGE model. The modifications to the standard CGE framework needed to model imperfect competition in some industries are briefly...

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Induced Technological Change in a Limited Foresight Optimization Model

Hedenus, Fredrik; Azar, Christian; Lindgren, Kristian - 2005

The threat of global warming calls for a major transformation of the energy system the coming century. Modeling technological change is an important factor in energy systems modeling. Technological change may be treated as induced by climate policy or as exogenous. We investigate the importance...

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Grants versus loans: Much ado about (almost) nothing

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer; Wilfer, Tom - 2005

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Procyclicality in the Financial System: Do We Need a New Macrofinancial Stabilization Framework?

White, William R. - 2005

Economic liberalization almost everywhere has constituted a positive supply shock which has been profoundly disinflationary at the global level. Financial liberalization in the industrial countries has also given fuller rein to inherent tendencies towards “procyclicality”, a process of...

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Back to normal? The future of global production networks after the crisis

Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger; Görlich, Dennis - 2009

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Ist Griechenland noch zu retten? Und der Euro?

Boysen-Hogrefe, Jens - 2010

Der Euroraum steckt in einem Dilemma zwischen ordnungspolitischen Anforderungen an eine langfristig stabile Währung auf der einen Seite und systemischen Risiken bei Einhaltung dieser Anforderungen auf der anderen Seite. Dieses Dilemma hat Anlass für Spekulationen gegen einzelne Staaten des...

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Fiscal responses to the financial crisis

Ahrens, Steffen - 2009

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IMF reform in the aftermath of the global financial crisis: Let the IMF speak truth to power

Lücke, Matthias - 2009

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