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Aidt, Toke S.; Gassebner, Martin - 2007

The paper analyzes whether the political regime of a country influences its involvement in international trade. Firstly, we develop a theoretical model that predicts that autocracies trade less than democracies. Secondly, we test the predictions of the model empirically using a panel of more...

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Extreme bounds of democracy

Gassebner, Martin; Lamla, Michael J.; Vreeland, James … - 2009

There are many stories of democracy but little consensus over which variables robustly determine its emergence and … million regressions. The most robust determinants of the transition to democracy are GDP growth (a negative effect), past … countries are less likely to see democracy emerge, although the latter finding is driven entirely by oil producing Muslim …

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Has globalisation increased inequality?

Dreher, Axel; Gaston, Noel - 2006

There has been no shortage of theories which purport to explain why globalisation may have, adverse, insignificant or even beneficial effects on income and earnings inequality. Surprisingly, the empirical realities remain an almost complete mystery. In this paper we use data on industrial wage...

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Voting against the separation of powers between legislature and administration

Stadelmann, David; Eichenberger, Reiner; Portmann, Marco - 2013

favor reducing the separation of powers between legislature and administration. …

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Determinants of green innovation: The impact of internal and external knowledge

Stucki, Tobias; Woerter, Martin - 2012

Based on a comprehensive data set comprising 13 countries, 22 industries and a period of 30 years we investigate the impact of internal and external knowledge pools of both green and other than green technologies on green patent activities. It turned out that the internal green knowledge stock...

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The impact of energy prices on green innovation

Ley, Marius Christian; Stucki, Tobias; Woerter, Martin - 2013

Based on patent data and industry specific energy prices for 18 OECD countries over 30 years we investigate on an industry level the impact of energy prices on green innovation activities. Our econometric models show that energy prices and green innovation activities are positively related and...

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The performance effect of environmental innovations

Soltmann, Christian; Stucki, Tobias; Wörter, Martin - 2013

While recent literature has focused on explaining the determinants of green innovations, it is not well understood how such innovations affect performance. To analyse the relationship between green innovation and performance, new industry-level panel data were exploited: these include 12 OECD...

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Economic, demographic and political determinants of pollution reassessed: A sensitivity analysis

Gassebner, Martin; Lamla, Michael; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2006

Recent literature proposes many variables as significant determinants of pollution. This paper gives an overview of this literature and asks which of these factors have an empirically robust impact on water and air pollution, i.e. do not depend upon the conditioning information set. For this, we...

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The Willingness to Pay for Preventing Environmental Damage

Torgler, Benno; García-Valiñas, María A. - 2005

Since the 70s, an increasing number of studies investigating environmental preferences have been made. However, papers related to a country and its regions or its development over time are still largely lacking, although it is a promising line to search empirically for factors that have been...

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Participation in Environmental Organizations: An Empirical Analysis

Torgler, Benno; García-Valiñas, María A. - 2006

The literature on volunteering has strongly increased in the last few years. However, there is still a lack of substantial empirical evidence about the determinants of environmental participation. This empirical study analyses a cross-section of individuals using micro-data of the World Values...

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