: The Economics of under-Developed Countries . Peter T. Bauer, Basil S. Yamey.

The Economics of Fertility in Developed Countries

The scientific work of Peter Bauer.

This June, Peter Bauer – chief editor of Biometrical Journal from 2000–2003 and member of the editorial board since 1996 – celebrated his 65th birthday. Peter Bauer became known as one of the originators of the “adaptive designs”, a field of research that recently gained considerable popularity, not only among academia but likewise among regulatory bodies and the pharmaceutical industry. It is ...

Differentiating Emissions Targets for Individual Developed Countries: Economics and Equity

A key challenge for a future climate change agreement is allocating emissions targets for individual developed countries that are perceived as equitable given differing national circumstances. Many economics-based frameworks for evaluating future targets use as a key criterion for individual country targets the notion that mitigation measures should result in similar costs (specifically, that t...

Property Takings in Developed versus Developing Countries: Economics, Politics, and the Limits of the Holdout Problem

Property takings are common in the developing world. For example, despite Chinese reforms in 2003 to protect property rights, Chinese governments forced thousands of families to relocate during the buildup to the Beijing Olympics. In recent years, governments in Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Zimbabwe, Russia, and others have nationalized heavy industry as well as specific firms. Large-scale land ta...

Bauer-furuta Invariants under Z2-actions

S. Bauer and M. Furuta defined a stable cohomotopy refinement of the Seiberg-Witten invariants. In this paper, we prove a vanishing theorem of Bauer-Furuta invariants for 4-manifolds with smooth Z2-actions. As an application, we give a constraint on smooth Z2-actions on homotopy K3#K3, and construct a nonsmoothable locally linear Z2-action on K3#K3. We also construct a nonsmoothable locally lin...