Comment on
Peter Haug
Diamond, J. (ed.), Proceedings. 98th Annual Conference on Taxation, Miami, Florida, November 17-19, 2005 and Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the National Tax Association, Thursday, November 17, 2005,
2006
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Changing Structures, Functions, and Townscape. The Transformation of a Middle-Sized City in Thuringia
Peter Franz, Inge Cornelsen, Ulfert Herlyn
Netherlands Journal of Housing and the Built Environment,
1995
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Challenges for Formal Standardization: the Institutional Reforms 2008 – 2010 Reconsidered.
Ulrich Blum
Standardization Research in Information Technology: New Perspectives,
2007
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This study considers the developments in international standardization over the last 20 years, particularly the status of formal standardization as compared with consortium-based industrial standardization. The report shows that the radical reform of the global formal standardization system that started in 2008, prompted by the loss of interest in formal standardization on the part of large corporations and the sometimes less than satisfactory outcomes from consortium-based industrial standardization in terms of competition and anti-trust considerations, has helped to compensate for the declining significance of national formal standardization. This specifically relates to national governments, and is to be regarded as a clearly positive development, from both the economic and the institutional and political points of view. Global public interests are now catered for by internet-supported information markets; in particular, online documentation has also enhanced the transparency of the formal standardization process and provided freedom of access for small and medium sized companies in particular, irrespective of geographical region. Finally, the study shows that the debate that took place in and around the year 2004 between Europe and the USA regarding the path towards the internationalization of formal standardization processes was superfluous, incomplete and even counterproductive, owing to the hardening of the political divisions between the two sides.
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Auctioning Public Financial Support Incentives
Ulrich Blum, F. Kalus
International Journal of Technology Management Vol. 26,
2003
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Armutsbekämpfung durch Einkommensumverteilung. Zu den Zielen und Finanzierungsproblemen eines Grundeinkommens
Ingmar Kumpmann
Berliner Debatte Initial Bd. 18 (2),
2007
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The basic income is introduced as a concept capable of improving inadequate poverty reduction schemes, especially by removing state controls of the ability and willingness to work. The welfare system will become more independent of wage-based social security contributions. The main challenge for the basic income model is financing. However, at the core of this challenge is not the question how large amounts of money can be raised, but rather the consequences for incentive mechanisms (and production). These are the limitations of the concept.
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Are Real Interest Rates Cointegrated? Further Evidence Based on Paneleconometric Methods
Christian Dreger, Christian Schumacher
Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik 139,
2003
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Are Car Purchases Savings?
Ulrich Blum, Marc Gaudry
Infrastructure and the Space Economy,
1991
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Are Botswana and Mozambique ready for CMA enlargement?
Tobias Knedlik
Botswana Journal of Economics,
No. 3,
2006
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The paper elaborates on the appropriateness of a potentially enlarged Common Monetary Area in Southern Africa including Botswana and Mozambique. The theory of optimum currency areas including some extensions by accounting for costs of non-integration and considering the external relations of currency areas are presented. Various indicators such as the structure of the economies, interest rates, inflation rates, exchange rates, factor mobility and trading partners are observed empirically. The paper concludes that current changes in the exchange rate policy of Botswana are expected to lead to increasing, though already high, convergence with CMA countries. Botswana is therefore an appropriate candidate for CMA enlargement. Mozambique is converging towards South Africa but still remains on a lower level. Taking into account the costs of non-integration, however, the target of integration should be formulated for the medium term.
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Jobs in East German manufacturing sector – The difficult road to profitability and competitiveness
Hans-Ulrich Brautzsch, Hilmar Schneider
Wirtschaft im Wandel,
No. 3,
1995
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Die amtlichen Daten, die zur Beurteilung der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit ostdeutscher Unterneh-men herangezogen werden, leiden maßgeblich unter einem Aggregationsproblem. In der Durchschnittsbetrachtung führt das Nebeneinander von wettbewerbsfähigen und teilweise noch immer extrem unrentablen Betrieben zu dem verzerrten Eindruck eines generellen Wettbewerbsmangels ostdeutscher Betriebe. Ergebnisse eines sogenannten matched-pair-Vergleichs zeigten hingegen, dass bereits 1992 jeder neunte Betrieb in Ostdeutschland im Durchschnitt eine höhere Arbeitsproduktivität aufwies als ein vergleichbarer westdeutscher Betrieb. Angesichts niedrigerer Löhne ist der Anteil wettbewerbsfähiger Betriebe in Ostdeutschland noch weitaus höher anzusetzen.
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Arbeitsplätze im Strudel des Wettbewerbs – Wettbewerbsdiskussion im Strudel der Statistik
Hilmar Schneider
External Publications,
1997
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