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View article: <p>Accounting for Intergenerational Educational Immobility in Low-And Middle-Income Countries</p>
Accounting for Intergenerational Educational Immobility in Low-And Middle-Income Countries Open
View article: Environmental agreements as clubs: Evidence from a new dataset of trade provisions
Environmental agreements as clubs: Evidence from a new dataset of trade provisions Open
Creating intergovernmental environmental clubs is a prominent policy proposal for addressing global environmental problems. According to their proponents, environmental clubs provide an incentive to join them and accept their environmental…
View article: The Trade Effects of the Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States: Early Empirical Insights from Panel Data*
The Trade Effects of the Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States: Early Empirical Insights from Panel Data* Open
This study provides early ex‐post empirical evidence on the effects of provisionally applied Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) on trade flows between the European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP)…
View article: Cling together, swing together: The contagious effects of COVID‐19 on developing countries through global value chains
Cling together, swing together: The contagious effects of COVID‐19 on developing countries through global value chains Open
This paper aims at estimating the economic vulnerability of developing countries to disruptions in global value chains (GVCs) due to the COVID‐19 pandemic. It uses trade in value‐added data for a sample of 12 developing countries in sub‐Sa…
View article: Blockchain technology in supply chains – what are the opportunities for sustainable development?
Blockchain technology in supply chains – what are the opportunities for sustainable development? Open
While blockchain technology (BT) has gained a great deal of publicity for its use in cryptocurrencies, another area of BT application has emerged away from the public eye, namely supply chains. Due to the increasing fragmentation and globa…
View article: Do environmental provisions in trade agreements make exports from developing countries greener?
Do environmental provisions in trade agreements make exports from developing countries greener? Open
Environmental provisions in preferential trade agreements (PTAs) are increasing in terms of their number and variety. The economic effects of these environmental provisions remain largely unclear. It is, therefore, necessary to determine w…
View article: Cling together, swing together: the contagious effects of COVID-19 on developing countries through global value chains
Cling together, swing together: the contagious effects of COVID-19 on developing countries through global value chains Open
This paper aims at estimating the economic vulnerability of developing countries to disruptions in global value chains (GVCs) due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It uses data on trade in value-added for a sample of 12 developing countries in sub…
View article: The trade effects of the Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States: early empirical insights from panel data
The trade effects of the Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States: early empirical insights from panel data Open
This study provides early ex-post empirical evidence on the effects of provisionally applied Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) on two-way trade flows between the European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of Stat…
View article: Blockchain-Technologie in Lieferketten – welche Chancen bietet sie für nachhaltige Entwicklung?
Blockchain-Technologie in Lieferketten – welche Chancen bietet sie für nachhaltige Entwicklung? Open
Neben der Aufmerksamkeit, die der Blockchain-Technologie (BT) durch ihren Einsatz in Kryptowährungen zuteilwurde, hat sich für die BT einigermaßen unbemerkt von der Öffentlichkeit ein weiteres Einsatz-feld entwickelt: das in der Lieferkett…
View article: Tax expenditure and the treatment of tax incentives for investment
Tax expenditure and the treatment of tax incentives for investment Open
Governments use tax expenditures to boost investment, innovation and employment. However, these schemes are largely opaque, costly and often ineffective in reaching their stated goals. They also frequently trigger unwanted side effects. In…
View article: Tax expenditure and the treatment of tax incentives for investment
Tax expenditure and the treatment of tax incentives for investment Open
Governments use tax expenditures to boost investment, innovation and employment. However, these schemes are largely opaque, costly and often ineffective in reaching their stated goals. They also frequently trigger unwanted side effects. In…
View article: Potential of blockchain technology for trade integration of developing countries
Potential of blockchain technology for trade integration of developing countries Open
Blockchain technology (BT), famous due to its use in digital currencies, also offers new opportunities in other fields, one of which is trade integration. Developing countries especially could benefit from greater trade integration with BT…
View article: Potenziale der Blockchain-Technologie für die Handelsintegration von Entwicklungsländern
Potenziale der Blockchain-Technologie für die Handelsintegration von Entwicklungsländern Open
Die Blockchain-Technologie (BT), die durch ihren Einsatz in digitalen Währungen bekannt wurde, bietet auch auf anderen Gebieten neue Möglichkeiten. Eines ist die Handelsintegration. Besonders Entwicklungsländer können von verstärkter Hande…
View article: Towards a More Accountable G20? Accountability Mechanisms of the G20 and the New Challenges Posed to Them by the 2030 Agenda
Towards a More Accountable G20? Accountability Mechanisms of the G20 and the New Challenges Posed to Them by the 2030 Agenda Open
The legitimacy of the Group of 20 (G20) is frequently challenged: the group has been criticised by non-member
\nstates, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and in both the scientific and broader public debate with regard to the content a…
View article: Tax Competition
Tax Competition Open
The world is facing a new round of international tax competition that may result in a ruinous race to the bottom, undermining the fiscal capacity of states to respond to global challenges and to implement the Agenda 2030. G20 leaders must …
View article: Accounting for Intergenerational Social Mobility in Low- and Middle-Income Countries - Evidence from the Poorest in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam
Accounting for Intergenerational Social Mobility in Low- and Middle-Income Countries - Evidence from the Poorest in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam Open
This study investigates intergenerational social mobility and its particular transmission mechanisms in low- and middle-income countries. Using data from Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam, we estimate the degree to which socioeconomic sta…
View article: Towards a more accountable G20? Accountability mechanisms of the G20 and the new challenges posed to them by the 2030 Agenda
Towards a more accountable G20? Accountability mechanisms of the G20 and the new challenges posed to them by the 2030 Agenda Open
Many measures customarily employed within states to provide checks to and surveillance of the exercise of power, such as public elections, are not available with regard to the political institutions of global governance. For this reason, t…
View article: Pathways to International Tax Governance: Has the German G20 Presidency Made a Difference?
Pathways to International Tax Governance: Has the German G20 Presidency Made a Difference? Open
The article provides an overview over recent developments in the field of global tax cooperation, with a specific focus on the activities of the G20 under the German presidency. It argues that Germany has mostly limited itself to following…
View article: Survey evidence: the low-skilled oppose globalisation in rich countries, while the high-skilled oppose it in poor ones
Survey evidence: the low-skilled oppose globalisation in rich countries, while the high-skilled oppose it in poor ones Open
Who are the ‘winners and losers’ of globalisation? Have those voting against globalisation really been left behind, or have the benefits of free markets simply not been communicated to them well enough? Drawing on recent research, Philipp …
View article: Who are the discontents of globalisation?
Who are the discontents of globalisation? Open
Mostly the low-skilled in rich countries and the high-skilled in poor ones view multinationals negatively, write Philipp Harms and Jakob Schwab