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#19. März 2021
Investment Law and Human Rights
Blog: Völkerrechtsblog
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#214. Juli 2021
The Long Term Effects Of Infrastructure Investment
Blog: Not Another Politics Podcast
Infrastructure. It's one of the hottest topics in politics today. But what does the research say about the effects and politics of infrastructure investment?
Political scientist, Jon Rogowski, from the University of Chicago has a surprising paper that shows the long-term economic outcomes of post office developments in the United States. But it also gives us a lot to think about when it comes to who benefits, misses out, or even loses when infrastructure gets political.
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#330. April 2018
Exploring EU regional investment in the UK since 1989
Blog: Local perspectives on Europe
The EU's cohesion policy is 30 years old and now accounts for around a third of the EU's budget. To celebrate, the European Commission has published a new dataset. This details annual payments to the EU's regions since 1989. The dataset covers most funds under the European Structural and Investment Funds umbrella. For the UK […]
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#415. November 2021
Cheers to a future of local prosperity! Geographical Indications (GIs) and economic opportunities in rural areas
Blog: Global Investments & Local Development
By Riccardo Crescenzi (LSE), Fabrizio De Filippis (Roma Tre University), Mara Giua (Roma Tre University) and Cristina Vaquero-Piñeiro (Roma Tre University) Geographical Indications play a propulsive role for local development in rural areas with very limited public expenditure, whereby the locality's features, history and traditions are part of the product itself. They provide protection against reproduction … Continued
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#528. Juni 2021
Leveraging Global Markets to Fund Infrastructure at the Sub-National Level in India
Blog: Global Investments & Local Development
by Jaansiva YS (The National University of Advanced Legal Studies, India) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has created a framework permitting Indian body corporates to issue masala bonds, moreover allowing all entities, that are eligible to receive FDI, to issue these bonds. Masala bonds now form the second-largest component of India's external … Continued
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#621. Juni 2021
When it comes to innovation clusters, policymakers need a new narrative
Blog: Global Investments & Local Development
by Sarah Giest (Leiden University) This article suggests changing the cluster narrative around the importance of locality, life cycles and the focus on one industry and instead looking at the underlying mechanisms of collaborative and absorptive capacity driving innovation dynamics in and beyond clusters. This enables government in collaboration with cluster organisations to facilitate … Continued
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#77. Juni 2021
Using Google Trends data to analyse growth dynamics of technology-based new ventures
Blog: Global Investments & Local Development
By Maksim Malyy (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology), Zeljko Tekic (Higher School of Economics) and Tatiana Podladchikova (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology) New ventures are extraordinary difficult to analyse (especially during their early phases of evolution), due to the absence of objective publicly available data on their progress. Billions of unique and powerful … Continued
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#81. Juni 2021
The hidden link: migration and innovation in global clusters
Blog: Global Investments & Local Development
By Francesco Lissoni (University of Bordeaux) and Ernest Miguelez (University of Bordeaux) The authors find that innovation hotspots are more successful when they host a larger proportion of migrant inventors. Their role compares to organization-based pipelines, but this success is overwhelmingly seen in northern America and Europe, and in the largest clusters. The golden age of globalization has … Continued
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#919. März 2021
Charts of the Week: Infrastructure jobs; Southeast Asian economies post-pandemic; Amazon workers' unionization battle
Blog: Brookings Now
In this edition of Charts of the Week: how federal infrastructure investment can put America back to work; Southeast Asian nations' fiscal response to COVID-19; and the unionization battle for Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama. In their new policy brief, Marcela Escobari, Dhruv Gandhi, and Sebastian Strauss write that "[a] large-scale federal infrastructure investment…
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#106. Mai 2020
'Humanity against the virus': how media reported the UK's coronavirus vaccine call to action
Blog: DFID in the news
The Prime Minister's call for global cooperation and investment to find a coronavirus vaccine has received widespread positive coverage in newspapers, online news and broadcast outlets.
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#1126. Juni 2017
When growth is not enough
Blog: Ben Bernanke's Blog
Here is the text of my prepared remarks ("When Growth Is Not Enough") for the European Central Bank Forum on Central Banking at Sintra on "Investment and growth in advanced economies." Read my full remarks here.
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#124. Januar 2018
Mutual Understanding: Is Your 401k Working Against You?
Blog: Capitalisn't
Luigi shops for an airline ticket and ponders how our retirement investments might be hurting our wallets. New research suggests that giant mutual funds with large stakes in the companies of one industry can lead to reduced competition and higher prices.
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#1321. April 2018
Earth Day: it is about equity as well as the environment
Blog: Social Mobility Memos
Growing gaps in family structure, educational investments, school readiness, test scores, and college entry and completion all make upward economic mobility a more difficult prospect for children born to poor families. Poor children in poor neighborhoods are at an even greater disadvantage. Growing up in an impoverished community doesn't only affect your lifetime earnings –…
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#1428. Februar 2017
Why Dodd-Frank's orderly liquidation authority should be preserved
Blog: Ben Bernanke's Blog
The collapse of the investment bank Lehman Brothers in September 2008 was perhaps the defining event of the financial crisis. Lehman's bankruptcy, followed by the near-collapse (save for government intervention) of the insurance company AIG, greatly intensified the fear and panic in markets, bringing the financial system and the economy to the brink of the…
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#155. Januar 2020
The new tools of monetary policy
Blog: Ben Bernanke's Blog
Since the 1980s, interest rates around the world have trended downward, reflecting lower inflation, demographic and technological forces that have increased desired global saving relative to desired investment, and other factors. Although low inflation and interest rates have many benefits, the new environment poses challenges for central banks, who have traditionally relied on cuts to…