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Manuskriptstaus behindern den Wissenschaftsbetrieb

Meyer, Dirk - 2005

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Calling Party Pays or Receiving Party Pays?

Dewenter, Ralf; Kruse, Jörn - 2005

mobile telephony, using data on 84 countries from all over the world. Since the decision whether or not countries are likely … to switch from RPP to CPP is not independent from penetration rates, a problem of endogenous regulation arises. In order … decisions. However, positive effects from regime switching seem to vanish when accounting for endogenous regulation. The effects …

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Population, Population Density, and Technological Change

Klasen, Stephan; Nestmann, Thorsten - 2004

In a model on population and endogenous technological change, Kremer combines a short-run Malthusian scenario where income determines the population that can be sustained, with the Boserupian insight that greater population spurs technological change and can therefore lift a country out of its...

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Gender-Related Indicators of Well-Being

Klasen, Stephan - 2004

This paper discusses the rationale as well as the challenges involved when constructing gender-related indicators of well-being. It argues that such indicators are critically important but that their construction involved a number of conceptual and measurement problems. Among the conceptual...

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Carbon emissions and economic growth: homogeneous causality in heterogeneous panels

Maddison, David; Rehdanz, Katrin - 2008

This paper introduces the concept of homogeneous non-causality in heterogeneous panels. This concept is used to examine a panel of data for evidence of a causal relationship between GDP and carbon emissions. The technique is compared to the standard test for homogeneous non-causality in...

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Are unfair import laws unfair to developing countries: evidence from US antidumping actions 1990 - 2004

Morkre, Morris; Spinanger, Dean; Tran, Lien - 2008

This paper investigates the effects of U.S. AD actions on DCs. It first considers administrative actions by the U.S. Department of Commerce, which decides AD margins for countries. It then considers decision making by the U.S. International Trade Commission, which determines injury to domestic...

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Can trade really hurt? An empirical follow-up on Samuelson's controversial paper

Bitzer, Jürgen; Görg, Holger; Schröder, Philipp J. H. - 2008

This paper investigates Samuelson's (JEP, 2004) argument that technical progress of the trade partner may hurt the home country. We illustrate this prospect in a simple Ricardian model for sitations with outward knowledge spillovers. Within this framework Samuelson's Act II effects may occur....

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Democratic transition, The: a study of the causality between income and the Gastil democracy index

Paldam, Martin; Gundlach, Erich - 2008

The paper considers the transformation of the political system as countries pass through the Grand Transition from a poor developing country to a wealthy developed country. In the process most countries change from an authoritarian to a democratic political system. This is shown by using the...

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Global governance: old and new issues

Hufbauer, Gary Clyde - 2008

Siebert, titled Global Governance: An Architecture for the World Economy. Assess-ments and forecasts made at that time are … not impose immediate acute costs on the great powers: climate change, financial crises, the world trading system, oil …

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The WTO and environmental provisions: three categories of trade and environment linkage

Khalilian, Setareh - 2009

The current WTO jurisdiction on linkages of trade and environment is not free of contradictions and has provided for heated debate due to some inconsistencies in past WTO rulings. The article argues that the WTO jurisdiction is not only unclear but also lacks economic reasoning. It aims to...

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