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Russia : the long road to ratification ; internal institution and pressure groups in the Kyoto Protocol's adoption process
Buchner, Barbara; Dall'Olio, Silvia - 2004
with respect to its position on climate policy. As a consequence, the factors that shape Russia's behaviour in the context … significantly contributed to Russia's final decision, namely domestic forces. These factors have often been overlooked in the … recent developments in Russia, confirming the key role of the Russian President. …
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Oil and product price dynamics in international petroleum markets
Lanza, Alessandro; Manera, Matteo; Giovannini, Massimo - 2003
and product price dynamics using cointegration and error correction models. Subsequently we use the error correction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592760
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Investigating credit transmission mechanism in the Republic of Macedonia : evidence from Vector Error Correction Model
Eliskovski, Milan - 2018
Johansen cointegration technique which is appropriate for empirical testing based on time series. The empirical results suggest …
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Spurious correlation in estimation of the health production function : a note
Akkoyunlu, Sule; Lichtenberg, Frank R.; Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2009
; Innovation ; Pharmaceuticals ; Health care expenditure ; Cointegration …
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Services outsourcing and innovation: an empirical investigation
Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2009
We provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of the links between international services outsourcing, domestic outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on innovative activity at the plant level. Such a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277453
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Services Outsourcing and Innovation: An Empirical Investigation
Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of the links between international services outsourcing, domestic outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on innovative activity at the plant level. Such a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015466
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Corrupting cartels : an overview of the Petrobras case
Barbosa, Klenio; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2019
This paper provides an overview of the corruption case and the connected cartels that affected one of the biggest Brazilian state-owned companies, Petrobras, and the highly controversial 'Operation Car Wash'. We focus on the behavior of cartel members and study the size of the contracts affected...
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Happiness and Growth the World Over: Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox
Easterlin, Richard A.; Angelescu, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
There is no significant relationship between the improvement in happiness and the long term rate of growth of GDP per capita. This is true for three groups of countries analyzed separately − 17 developed, 9 developing, and 11 transition − and also for the 37 countries taken together. Time...
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Occupational Gender Composition and Wages in Romania: From Planned Equality to Market Inequality?
Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for more than 40 years, providing equal access to education and employment, and restricting pay differentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the promotion of equal opportunities and treatment for...
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Do Market Pressures Induce Economic Efficiency: The Case of Slovenian Manufacturing, 1994-2001
Orazem, Peter F.; Vodopivec, Milan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
The Slovenian transition represents a slow but steady liberalization of constraints on competition. Using a unique longitudinal data set on all manufacturing firms in Slovenia over the period 1994-2001, this study analyzes how firm efficiency changed in response to changing competitive...
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