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The Impact of a New Container Port on the Greenhouse Gas Pollution
Business Systems ResearchLarge vessels that call at European ports will have to pay for their CO2 emissions from transporting cargo that enters or goes from a European port since January 2024. The costs will increase with increasing global trade.
Bogataj David +2 more
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Evaluation of a Partial Ban on Rx‐Rebates in Germany
Health Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigate patients' price sensitivity for prescription (Rx) drugs with regards to patronizing online or brick‐and‐mortar pharmacies. In doing so, we exploit a policy change in Germany that prohibited online pharmacies from granting rebates to one part of the population, the members of the statutory health insurance scheme.
Maximilian M. Gail +3 more
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International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how the personal characteristics of finance ministers influence political budget cycles in Africa. Using a new dataset covering 300 finance ministers across 23 countries from 1980 to 2020, we find that political budget cycles primarily take the form of increased government consumption during election years.
Christine Olivia Strong
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Operating Capacity, Pricing and Supply Elasticity in Container Shipping Markets
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigate the channels through which changes in operating capacity influence freight rates in the container shipping market using a novel dataset to create an operating capacity index at the shipping‐route level. Our analysis reveals that when supply elasticity is low, an increase in operating capacity tends to drive freight rates upward,
Cong Sui +3 more
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Researcher–Entrepreneur Relationship and Performance of Innovative Startups
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Many innovative startups are joint ventures between researchers and entrepreneurs, who collaborate in R&D and product commercialization. Government policies such as grants, subsidies, and patent licensing fees act as Pigouvian subsidies, incentivizing R&D by bridging the gap between the social and private returns of innovation.
Yangguang Huang, Helen Hui
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Private Property Rights, Government Interventionism and Welfare Economics
Review of Economic Perspectives, 2019 We develop a critique of government interventionism based on the Misesian calculation argument against socialism. If private property rights and relative prices based on supply and demand are necessary for successful economic coordination, then ...
Jankovic Ivan, Block Walter
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Industry Portfolio Volatility Connections and Industry Portfolio Returns
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper tracks dynamic connections that form among daily US industry portfolio return volatilities using a Bayesian time‐varying parameter VAR model. Market participants often focus on sectors to filter vast amounts of information, and this focus results in cross‐industry return predictability. We characterise connections that form over the
Michael Ellington +2 more
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Toward global paradigm change: beyond the crisis of the liberal world order
Economics: Journal Articles, 2019 This paper may be summarized by the following points. First, the crisis of the liberal world order arises from a misalignment of our social, economic and political domains of activity, along with a resulting destabilization of our physical environment ...
Snower Dennis J.
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Barreau A13-RN13 – Contournement sud-est de Caen [PDF]
, 2013 Un diagnostic archéologique s’est déroulé sur l’emprise du projet de construction par la Société des autoroutes Paris-Normandie d’un tronçon autoroutier visant à relier la RN13 sur le territoire de la commune de Cagny (Calvados) à l’autoroute A13 sur le ...
Flotté, David
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A Joint Test of Unconfoundedness and Common Trends
Journal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We introduce an overidentification test of two alternative assumptions to identify the average treatment effect on the treated in a two‐period panel data setting: unconfoundedness and common trends. Under unconfoundedness, treatment assignment and post‐treatment outcomes are independent, conditional on control variables and pre‐treatment ...
Martin Huber, Eva‐Maria Oeß
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