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The process by which scholarly papers are selected for publication in a journal is faced with serious problems. The referees rarely agree and often are biased. This paper discusses two alternative measures to evaluate scholars. The first alternative suggests input control. The second one...
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This note reviews consumers’ preference orderings in economics and shows that irrationality is a poor explanation for apparent violations of some axioms of order. Apparent violations seem to be better explained by the fact that consum-ers’ utility functions, if they exist at all, might not...
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Abstract: This paper conjectures that economics has changed profoundly since the 1970s and that these changes involve a new understanding of the relationship between theoretical and applied work. Drawing on an analysis of John Bates Clark medal winners, it is suggested that the discipline became...
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competition model for competition law and policy are limited. Market power is a multifaceted phenomenon that consists of several …, distributional issues). Therefore, competition policy usually focuses on preventing non-merit paths to market power (merger control …The model of perfect competition is one of the most famous, most important, and most misunderstood concepts in …
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Countries need capacity for a variety of reasons, including sustaining economic growth, generating jobs, reducing poverty, effectively managing development programmes, and transforming societies and economies. A lot of effort has been expended to develop capacity in Africa with mixed results....
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academic or policy investigation can properly be made into the forces that determine the behavior of the buyers and sellers of …
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policies. This policy approach is explicitly bottom-up, namely it gives each country the freedom to sign agreements and deals … paper aims at exploring whether a different policy approach could lead more countries to adopt effective climate control … provides a game-theoretic assessment of this policy approach and then evaluates empirically the possible endogenous emergence …
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The US decision not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and the recent outcomes of the Bonn and Marrakech Conferences of the Parties drastically reduces the effectiveness of the Kyoto Protocol in controlling GHG emissions. The reason is not only the reduced emission abatement in the US, but also the...
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The present stalemate in climate negotiations has led policy analysts and economists to explore the possible emergence …
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with respect to its position on climate policy. As a consequence, the factors that shape Russia's behaviour in the context …
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