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Given the USA`s refusal to ratify there is little hope for the Kyoto agreement on curbing CO2 emissions. This paper thus pledges for a national energy policy beyond Kyoto based on local external effects stemming from the combustion of fossil fuels. Due to varying external effects a national policy will differentiate energy taxes between fuels. Using Swiss estimates of external...

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This paper approaches the problem of an econometric evaluation of dynamic programme sequences from an potential outcome perspective. The identifying power of several different assumptions about the connection between the dynamic selection process and the potential outcomes of different programme sequences is discussed. The assumptions invoke different types of randomisation...

In this paper we pursue an approach based on economic theory to illustrate possible shortcomings of widely-used detrending methods. Wenanalyze a simple model of economic growth and business cycles in which investment and technical progress are stochastic. The Hodrick-Prescottnand the Baxter-King filter are shown to detect spurious business cycles which are not related to actual...

Deutsch: In den vergangenen Jahren hat die Zahl und Bedeutung regionaler Integrationsabkommen weltweit stark zugenommen. Diese Zunahme weist einerseits auf eine Öffnung nationaler Märkte im regionalen Rahmen hin. Andererseits st nicht auszuschliessen,dass sich regionale Integrationsräume nach aussen abschotten und sich der Protektionismus nur von der nationalen Grenze an die Grenze...

Das Internet verändert Unternehmen und ihre Umwelt. Der Einsatz von Informationssystemen vergrössert den Markt, verbessert die Leistungsfähigkeit, verursacht niedrigere Kosten und beschleunigt Geschäftsprozesse. Unternehmen, welche die Informationstechnologie
intelligent einsetzen, können sich einen bedeutenden Wettbewerbsvorteil
gegenüber Konkurrentensichern. Die...

Most economic models are based on the self-interest hypothesis that assumes that all people are exclusively motivated by their material self-interest. In recent years experimental economists have gathered overwhelming evidence that systematically refutes the self-interest hypothesis and suggests that many people are strongly motivated by concerns for fairness and reciprocity....

Tax competition is supposed to lead to inefficiencies in the provision of public goods and difficulties for decentralized redistribution. A necessary condition for these effects to occur is that residence and location decisions are determined by fiscal considerations. In this paper, the impact of personal income taxes and transfer payments on residence decisions of taxpayers is...