„Kiel 1969“ – ein Erinnerungsort

Christian - Albrechts - Universität Kiel

1 A coroutine is a programming construct between function and thread. It behaves like a function that can suspend itself arbitrarily often to yield intermediate results and to get new inputs before returning a result. This facility makes coroutines suitable for implementing generator abstractions. Languages that support coroutines are often untyped or they use trivial types for coroutines. This...

Nunnenkamp KIEL POLICY BRIEF

Kiel Institute for World Economics

We analyze the aid portfolio of various bilateral and multilateral donors, testing whether they have prioritised aid in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In doing so, we combine sectorally disaggregated aid data with indicators reflecting the situation of recipient countries regarding the MDGs. Our results show that donors differ not only in terms of their overall generosity an...

Kiel Institute for World Economics

The upcoming European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is one of the more controversial climate policy instruments. Predictions about its likely impact and its performance can at present only be made to a certain degree. As long as the National Allocations Plans are not finally settled, the overall supply of allowances is not determined. In this paper we identify key features and key impacts of t...

Kiel Institute of World Economics

If the technological revolution which has taken place over the past decades has lowered information costs and if information costs increase in distance, distance should – ceteris paribus – become less important in determining international bank lending. We are using a dataset on assets and liabilities of commercial banks from five countries (France, Germany, Italy, UK, US) in up to 50 host coun...