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Are Turkish Migrants Altruistic?
(2010)KOF Working PapersWe investigate in this paper whether the stable pattern of remittances over the last three decades can be explained by the altruistic behaviour. This possibility is tested by means of cointegration analysis, which is applied to Turkish remittances from Germany over the period 1962-2005. A single cointegrating relationship is found between the remittances of Turkish workers in Germany and the real Turkish GDP per capita, the real German ...Working Paper -
Mapping mediators: A comparison of third parties and implications for Switzerland
(2011)CSS Mediation ResourcesReport -
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Sicherheitspolitische Trends 2020-2028: Intensivierte Grossmächtekonkurrenz
(2020)CSS Briefing NotesEvery year, the CSS analyzes developments in world politics and their potential consequences for Switzerland over the next eight years. This year, we focus on the intensifying great power competition between the United States, China and Russia, as well as Artificial Intelligence as a key technology and a strategic resource.Report -
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Does Export Concentration Cause Volatility?
(2011)KOF Working PapersThis paper investigates the causal influence of export concentration on measures of aggregate volatility. Geographically disadvantaged countries often have a concentrated export structure which makes them more vulnerable to external shocks. Identifying causal effects of export concentration on volatility faces severe problems of endogeneity, however. Based on a gravity approach, we suggest an inequality decomposition method which allows ...Working Paper -
Preventing violence: Community-based approaches to early warning and early response
(2016)CSS Mediation ResourcesReport -
On harmonic Ritz values
(2011)Technical Report / ETH Zurich, Department of Computer ScienceReport