Dynamic Approaches to Global Economic Challenges
Birgit Bednar-Friedl • JRorn Kleinert Editors
Dynamic Approaches to Global Economic Challenges Festschrift in Honor of Karl Farmer
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Editors Birgit Bednar-Friedl Department of Economics & Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change University of Graz Graz, Austria
ISBN 978-3-319-23323-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-23324-6
JRorn Kleinert Department of Economics University of Graz Graz, Austria
ISBN 978-3-319-23324-6 (eBook)
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Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Birgit Bednar-Friedl and Jörn Kleinert Part I
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Real, Monetary and Fiscal Integration in the European Union
A Prototype Model of European Integration: The Case of Austria . . . . . . . . Fritz Breuss
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Trade Agreements and Regional Disparities . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pasquale Commendatore, Ingrid Kubin, and Iryna Sushko
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Strategic Macroeconomic Policies in a Monetary Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R. Neck and D. Blueschke
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Determinants of Maximum Sustainable Government Debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anna Boisits and Matthias Schelnast
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The Long Italian Stagnation and the Welfare Effects of Outsourcing . . . . . Jacopo Zotti
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Economic Growth, Technological Change, and Climate Policy
Status, Wealth Distribution, and Endogenous Economic Growth .. . . . . . . . . 117 Jörn Kleinert and Ronald Wendner Technological Change in Information and Communication: Consequences for Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Wolf Rauch Deepening the Scope of the “Economic Model”: Functionalities, Structures, Mechanisms and Institutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Stefan P. Schleicher
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Is There a First-Mover Advantage in International Climate Policy? . . . . . . 155 Birgit Bednar-Friedl Environmental Policy in an Open Economy: Refocusing Climate Policy to Address International Trade Spillovers.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Karl W. Steininger and Thomas Schinko
Contributors
Birgit Bednar-Friedl Department of Economics, University of Graz, Graz, Austria; Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, University of Graz, Graz, Austria Dmitri Blueschke Department of Economics, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria Anna Boisits Center for Accounting Research, University of Graz, Graz, Austria Fritz Breuss Vienna University of Economics and Business, Institute for International Economics, Vienna, Austria; Austrian Institute of Economic Research, Macroeconomics and European Economic Policy, Arsenal, Vienna, Austria Pasquale Commendatore Department of Law, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy Jörn Kleinert Department of Economics, University of Graz, Graz, Austria Ingrid Kubin Department of Economics, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria Wolf Rauch Department of Information Science and Information Systems, University of Graz, Graz, Austria Matthias Schelnast Department of Economics, University of Graz, Graz, Austria Thomas Schinko Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, University of Graz, Graz, Austria; International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria Stefan P. Schleicher Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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Karl W. Steininger Department of Economics, University of Graz, Graz, Austria; Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, University of Graz, Graz, Austria Iryna Sushko National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Institute of Mathematics, Kyiv, Ukraine; Kyiw School of Economics, Kyiw, Ukraine Ronald Wendner Department of Economics, University of Graz, Graz, Austria Jacopo Zotti Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Venice, Italy; Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy