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Knorr, Andreas - 2002

During the past two decades, international trade in telecommunication services has significantly intensified. What is more, an increasing number of telecommunications operators have begun to expand their activities beyond national borders through FDIs, joint ventures, and cooperation agreements....

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The development and implementation of IMF and World Bank conditionality

Dreher, Axel - 2002

The paper presents a detailed description of IMF and World Bank conditionality and tries to explain changes in this … conditions seem to be influenced by contemporaneous World Bank activity. Moreover, the paper tries to explain compliance with … World Bank conditionality as well as interruptions of IMF programs in the recipient countries. Compliance with World Bank …

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Investment policies and telecommunications regimes

Drabek, Zdenek - 2002

telecommunications industry. We analyse in particular the role of the WTO agreement in furthering liberalization around the world, and …

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Is it time for a world currency?

Shams, Rasul - 2002

recent opposite views on the appropriateness of a common world currency for this purpose. Referring to an adequately … formulated theory of world money, it is shown that there is presently no alternative to a flexible exchange rate system. This … system might, under specific conditions, gradually evolve into a world monetary system with a global currency. Developing …

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Why do countries form regions? The political economy of regional integration

Shams, Rasul - 2002

it considers regional groupings as strategical coalitions with a deep impact on the future of the world economy. …

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Globalisation and governance: Contradictions of neo-liberal migration management

Overbeek, Henk - 2002

. This paper first asks how globalisation affects human mobility. The conclusion is that globalisation integrates the world …

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Transaction costs of the Kyoto mechanisms

Michaelowa, Axel; Stronzik, Marcus - 2002

current estimates of world market prices for greenhouse gas emission permits, projects with annual emission reductions of less …

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Integration effects in border regions: A survey of economic theory and empirical studies

Niebuhr, Annekatrin; Stiller, Silvia - 2002

Border regions and border effects currently attract a lot of attention in political practice and economic research. Substantial interest in regions located along the frontiers of integrating countries is predominantly inspired by the presumption that their specific geographic position might...

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Do transnational corporations care about labour standards?

Busse, Matthias - 2002

This paper explores the relationship between foreign direct investment, or the activities of transnational corporations, and core labour standards. It discusses the channels through which labour standards may influence foreign direct investment and presents the results of an empirical test of...

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Competition intensity, potential competition and transaction cost economics

Busse, Matthias - 2002

As the process of globalisation of the world economy progresses, the degree of international competition among …

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