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Multi-Period Emissions Trading in the Electricity Sector: Winners and Losers

Bode, Sven - 2004

Emission trading has become recently more and more import in environmental regulation. In the context of controlling greenhouse gas emissions, the directive on a Europewide trading scheme for large immobile sources may be perceived as one of the most important milestones in recent years. Prior...

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The World Bank as an International Financial Institution

Shams, Rasul - 2004

The World Bank is a prestigious and large international financial institution. Since its foundation it has widened the … scope and the size of its activities. One interpretation of what the World Bank is doing is the provision of public goods … more and more the functions of a world government in the making. An alternative interpretation would look at the World Bank …

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Determinants of the Informal Economy: The Importance of Regional Factors

Krakowski, Michael - 2005

economy in world regressions. Regional regressions reveal that different aspects of governance dominate the relationship …

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Political Risk, Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment

Hefeker, Carsten; Busse, Matthias - 2005

The paper explores the linkages between political risk, institutions and foreign direct investment inflows. Using different econometric techniques for a data sample of 83 developing countries and the period 1984 to 2003, we identify those indicators that matter most for the activities of...

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Exports and Productivity: A survey of the evidence from firm level data

Wagner, Joachim - 2005

While the role of exports in promoting growth in general, and productivity in particular, has been investigated empirically using aggregate data for countries and industries for a long time, only recently have comprehensive longitudinal data at the firm level been used to look at the extent and...

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Dollar-Euro Exchange Rate 1999-2004: Dollar and Euro as International Currencies

Shams, Rasul - 2005

international currency. In this paper, first we present a concise summary of the theory of world money. Then we apply the theory to …

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Competition Policy Works: The Effect of Competition Policy on the Intensity of Competition - An International Cross-Country Comparison

Krakowski, Michael - 2005

, the intensity of local competition and the standard of living. Perception data from the World Economic Forum is used to …

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Democracy and FDI

Busse, Matthias - 2003

Many believe that multinational enterprises insensitively ignore political rights and civil liberties in the countries of their investments. Frequently, non-governmental organisations accuse multinationals of fostering repressive regimes in developing countries and consider foreign direct...

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Principal-Agent-Probleme in internationalen Organisationen

Vaubel, Roland - 2003

Der Aufsatz zeigt anhand zahlreicher Beispiele und quantitativer Analysen, dass internationale Organisationen – mehr als alle anderen staatlichen Institutionen – ein extremes Kontrolldefizit aufweisen. Umfragen belegen, dass sie andere Interessen als die Bürger haben. Sie können diese...

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Telecommunications-Related Services: Market Access, Deeper Integration and the WTO

Braga, Carlos A P; Fink, Carsten; Hoekman, Bernhard - 2002

how the multilateral system under the World Trade Organization can help developing countries in promoting their own …

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