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After many years of an impasse in attempts to introduce Regulatory Impact Assessment to Greece the Greek Prime Minister announced in July of 2006 the introduction of a very ambitious Integrated Impact Assessment on the economy, the society and the environment. The model presented was at the same...
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This paper starts from two sets of facts about Continental Europe.The first is the steady increase in unemployment since the early 1970s. The second is the evolution of the capital share, an initial decline in the 1970s, followed by a much larger increase since the mid-1980s. The paper then...
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This paper presents five theoretical openness-and-growth links that can account for trade-induced investment-led growth …, cross-country data suggests that openness influences growth only via its effect on investment, and suggests that openness … promotes investment in all countries whatever the capital-intensive of their exports (contrary to predictions of the old …
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examine the implications of exchange rates for time series of sectoral investment. Both theoretically and empirically we show … that investment responsiveness to exchange rates varies over time, positively in relation to sectoral reliance on export … differences in investment endogeneity across high and low markup sectors, with investment in low markup sectors significantly more …
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Ten years ago, donors committed $1.5 billion to a pilot Advance Market Commitment (AMC) to help purchase pneumococcal vaccine for low-income countries. The AMC aimed to encourage the development of such vaccines, ensure distribution to children in low-income countries, and pilot the AMC...
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consumption or investment. In this way, aggregate demand would be maintained by substituting public consumption for private …
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-2006, we document that corporate investment in research is closely related to its use in internal invention. Specifically … productive. Our results are consistent with the view that to justify further investment in research corporate scientists need to …
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In rural areas of most developing countries, intergenerational coresidence is both widespread and an important determinant of well-being for the elderly. Most parents want at least one adult child to remain at home (e.g., so they can work on the family farm or provide care and assistance around...
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While patent systems have been widely used both historically and internationally, there is nonetheless a tremendous amount of controversy over whether patent systems – in practice – improve the alignment between private returns and social contributions. In this paper, I describe three...
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We contribute to the long debated issue of whether inward foreign direct investment (FDI) can stimulate investment in … of FDI on total investment – measured as the ratio of gross fixed capital formation to GDP – but only if multinational …
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