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Negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement: Evaluation and implications for East Asian regionalism

Cheong, Inkyo - 2013

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement seems to have reached a crossroads: it could either be a building block toward achieving economic integration in Asia and the Pacific, or trigger the formation of two large trade blocs which will work independently of one another. When the Government...

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Regional Economic Integration in East Asia: Progress and Pathways

Medalla, Erlinda M.; Balboa, Jenny D. - 2011

The East Asian region is a major global economic player, given its economic size and potential. As such, Regional Economic Integration in East Asia could be considered as an important building bloc toward integration of the Asia-Pacific region. East Asia has made significant progress in creating...

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The free trade area of the Asia-Pacific: A constructive approach to multilateralizing Asian regionalism

Bergsten, C. Fred; Noland, Marcus; Schott, Jeffrey J. - 2011

This paper examines the prospect of realizing regional economic integration via the mechanism of a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP). The FTAAP initiative represents a politically ambitious, high potential benefit option for achieving Asian regional integration. Among its desirable...

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Gender norms, violence and adolescent girls' trajectories: Evidence from a field experiment in India

Andrew, Alison; Krutikova, Sonya; Smarrelli, Gabriela; … - 2022

Striking gender gaps persist in fundamental aspects of human welfare. In India, the setting of this paper, these gaps are particularly large. Interventions often target adolescent girls with the aim of empowering them to make choices that go against the status quo - to remain in school longer or...

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Driving forces behind informal sanctions

Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - 2005

This paper investigates the driving forces behind informal sanctions in cooperation games and the extent to which theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators' punishment is almost exclusively targeted towards the defectors but the latter also impose a...

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Changing identity: Retiring from unemployment

Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2011

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2009, we follow persons from their working life into their retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in...

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Changing identity: Retiring from unemployment

Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2011

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Changing Identity: Retiring from Unemployment

Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2011

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Crime, punishment and social norms

Weibull, Jörgen W.; Villa, Edgar - 2005

We analyze the interplay between economic incentives and social norms when individuals decide whether or not to engage in criminal activity. More specifically, we assume that there is a social norm against criminal activity and that deviations from the norm result in feelings of guilt or shame....

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Außenwirtschaft nach der Wahl: Eine Agenda für die neue Bundesregierung

Bickenbach, Frank; Bode, Eckhardt; Dohse, Dirk; Görg, … - 2025

Liberalisierung gegenüber dem Rest der Welt werden. Handelsabkommen • Pläne der EU-Kommission, mit regionalen Gemeinschaften über … Mercosur hinaus Handelsabkommen zu schließen, sollten von der Bundesregierung unterstützt werden. Nachhaltigkeitsstandards der … EU sollten an den Entwicklungsstand der Partner von Handelsabkommen angepasst werden. Afrika: • Deutschland muss eine …

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