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An estimate of the number of vegetarians in the world

Leahy, Eimear; Lyons, Seán; Tol, Richard S. J. - 2010

Methane is the second-most important anthropogenic greenhouse gas. Ruminant livestock are a major source of emissions. The expansion of pasture is one of the main drivers of deforestation, one of the larger sources of carbon dioxide emissions. An understanding of dietary choice is needed for...

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The commodities market bubble: Money manager capitalism and the financialization of commodities

Wray, L. Randall - 2008

Money manager capitalism - characterized by highly leveraged funds seeking maximum returns in an environment that systematically underprices risk - has resulted in a series of boom-and-bust cycles in equities, real estate, and commodities. Because subsequent cycles have been increasingly...

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Should banks be narrowed? An evaluation of a plan to reduce financial instability

Bossone, Biagio - 2002

In this brief, Biagio Bossone of the International Monetary Fund evaluates narrow banking from the perspective of modern theories of financial intermediation. These theories portray the status quo banking system as a solution to otherwise intractable problems of imperfect information, risk, and...

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The economics of outsourcing: How should policy respond?

Palley, Thomas I. - 2007

According to Research Associate Thomas I. Palley, global outsourcing represents a new economic challenge that calls for a new set of institutions. In this brief, he expands upon the problems of offshore outsourcing as outlined in Public Policy Brief no. 86 and focuses on the microeconomic...

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Is financial globalization truly global? New institutions for an inclusive capital market

Arestis, Philip; Basu, Santonu - 2003

world cannot be satiated with US securities, issues of emerging economies account for less than 6 percent of total …

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Globalization and the changing trade debate: Suggestions for a new agenda

Palley, Thomas I. - 2007

The failure of the Doha Development Round of World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations in July 2006 was the first … major collapse of a multilateral trade round since World War II. Research Associate Thomas Palley sees the failure as an …

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Can Basel II enhance financial stability? A pessimistic view

Wray, L. Randall - 2006

Even as the United States enjoys an economic expansion, there is an undercurrent of concern among economic analysts who follow financial markets. Some feel that the expansion of the credit derivatives markets poses the threat of a crisis similar to the Long-Term Capital Management debacle of...

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Spatial exporters

Defever, Fabrice; Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - 2011

culturally related to their prior export destinations. We quantify the impact of this spatial pattern using a Chinese firm … firm-product and destination specific effects and accounting for possible multiple new export destinations we show that the … probability to export to a country increases by 15 to 38 percent for each prior export destination with a geographical or cultural …

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Time is running out: The 2°C target and optimal climate policies

Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael; Glanemann, Nicole - 2011

The quintessence of recent natural science studies is that the 2°C target can only be achieved with massive emission reductions in the next few years. The central twist of this paper is the addition of this limited time to act into a non-perpetual real options framework analysing optimal...

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What drives the global land rush?

Arezki, Rabah; Deininger, Klaus; Selod, Harris - 2011

This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed indicators of agro-ecological suitability in areas with low population density as...

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