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For the first time, the Protocol negotiated by the third Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in Kyoto sets legally binding emission targets for the commitment period 2008-2012 for the industrial countries and countries in transition listed in Annex I....
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In der WTO wird in erster Linie der Wettbewerb zwischen Staaten geregelt. Es werden Anreize für die Staaten geschaffen, den eigenen politischen Handlungsspielraum einzuschränken. Dies kann zweierlei bedeuten: - die Handelspartner verzichten auf Versuche, Wohlfahrtsgewinne für das eigene Land...
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countries than in most of the industrialized world. Thus it has been a major, but contentious topic in the climate negotiations …
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This study has investigated to which extent rating events influence sovereign bond yield spreads and overall financial market volatility. While rating agencies are part and parcel of today's financial markets, the study succeeds in tracing some independent effect that ratings exert on financial...
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-averse investors choose not to react to return differentials in such an extreme way as in a world with perfect foresight. Uncertainty … optimizing country allocation. However, covariances and betas tend to be intertemporally unstable. When world markets become …
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Klimapolitik ist aufgrund der Vielfalt der direkt betroffenen Akteursgruppen, ihrer globalen Reichweite und ihres extrem langen Zeithorizonts besonders anfällig für Verzerrungen durch Interessengruppen. Daher ist die Theorie der Neuen Politischen Ökonomie gut geeignet, die klimapolitische...
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. For this culture to emerge, and for banks and other institutions from all over the world to locate in this place, several … behind the rise and fall of markets are poorly understood. Given the present dramatic changes in the world financial system …
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enhance both integration into the regional and world markets. Prominent candidates for such policies are the build-up of … estimates by the World Bank (1994) about 60 billion US$ would have to be invested in infrastructure up to the year 2000 to …
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Greenhouse gas (GHG) removals by afforestation and reforestation project activities under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) are vulnerable to a variety of risks and uncertainties, resulting in the partial or total reversal of such removals. Hence, GHG removals from these...
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American and African countries while China and the hot air holding countries will lose as compared to a purely energy based CDM. …
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