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Higher education and the fall and rise of inequality

Prettner, Klaus; Schaefer, Andreas - 2016

We investigate the effect of higher education on the evolution of inequality. In so doing we propose a novel overlapping generations model with three social classes: the rich, the middle class, and the poor. We show that there is an initial phase in which no social class invests in higher...

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Treaty Shopping beim Investorenschutz - eine Replik

Dullien, Sebastian - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 95 (2015) 8, pp. 569-570

Im Juliheft 2015 veröffentlichte der Wirtschaftsdienst einen Aufsatz von Henning Klodt und Stefanie Lang zum Treaty Shopping. Sebastian Dullien weist auf eine seiner Auffassung nach fehlerhafte Darstellung des bilateralen Investitionsschutzabkommens zwischen Deutschland und Pakistan aus dem...

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Treaty Shopping beim Investorenschutz - eine Erwiderung

Klodt, Henning; Lang, Stefanie - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 95 (2015) 8, pp. 570-571

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The future of the European power market

Genoese, Fabio; Egenhofer, Christian; Hogan, Michael; … - In: Intereconomics 50 (2015) 4, pp. 176-197

The European power market is undergoing signifi cant changes. The EU has set an ambitious goal of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 per cent by 2030. This will require significant investment in renewable energy sources such as wind and photovoltaics as well as measured policies to deal...

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Intellectual property rights and the evergreening of pharmaceuticals

Boscheck, Ralf - In: Intereconomics 50 (2015) 4, pp. 221-226

economies are fuelling calls to contain the so-called evergreening practices of drug producers around the world. But such …

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The spillovers, interactions, and (un)intended consequences of monetary and regulatory policies

Forbes, Kristin; Reinhardt, Dennis; Wieladek, Tomasz - 2016

Have bank regulatory policies and unconventional monetary policies - and any possible interactions - been a factor behind the recent "deglobalisation" in cross-border bank lending? To test this hypothesis, we use bank-level data from the United Kingdom - a country at the heart of the global...

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World shocks, world prices, and business cycles: An empirical investigation

Fernández Díaz, Andrés; Schmitt-Grohé, Stephanie; … - 2017

SVAR models that include a single world price (such as the terms-of-trade) predict that world shocks explain a small … multiple commodity prices transmit world disturbances. Estimates on a panel of 138 countries over the period 1960-2015 indicate … that world shocks explain on average 33 percent of output fluctuations in individual economies. This figure doubles when …

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Towards a framework for identifying and measuring the benefits of accessibility

Federing, Daphne; Lewis, David - 2017

accessibility rights, governments, regulatory bodies and courts around the world deal comprehensively with costs but fail to value …

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How to revive Doha with some chance of success

Abbott, Roderick - 2009

collectively account for 90% of world trade. Many GATT members were thus peripheral to the process. Among other consequences this …

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A blueprint for reform of the WTO agreement on agriculture

Zahrnt, Valentin - 2009

As the Doha negotiations are at a dead end, this paper takes a step back to address the future direction of WTO disciplines in agriculture. It puts members' negotiating positions and the draft modalities with their ever growing list of exceptions aside to focus on three fundamental questions....

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