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Circular economy measures to keep plastics and their value in the economy, avoid waste and reduce marine litter
Brink, Patrick ten; Schweitzer, Jean-Pierre; Watkins, Emma - 2018
We live in the plastic age (the "plasticene"), producing over 300 million tonnes (mt) of plastic every year globally, 5–15 mt of which flow into already polluted oceans. Plastic remains a key material in the global economy, but low rates of collection, reuse and recycling, emissions of...
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The effects of pension reform on retirement and human capital formation
Fleischhauer, Kai-Joseph - 2007
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Self-serving behavior in price-quality competition : conference paper
Bertini, Marco; Halbheer, Daniel; Koenigsberg, Oded - 2013
our theory in the psychology of attribution, define self-serving behavior and provide experimental and survey evidence of …, we first study the natural benchmark equilibrium provided by unbiased decision makers. We then introduce self …
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Theoretical Principles of Economic Diplomacy
Zirovcic, Dubravko Duby - 2016
The term economic diplomacy has established itself in the Croatian sources as an umbrella term for all the activities of the national state to protect and promote its own economic interests in the international environment. Under the broader concept of economic diplomacy we distinguish the...
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Anti-Herding Regulation
Ayres, Ian - 2014
In some contexts, an individual's choice to mimic the behavior of others, to join the herd, can increase systemic risk and retard the production of information. Herding can thus produce negative externalities. And in such situations, individuals by definition have insufficient incentives to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058375
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Intention to de-internationalise : foreign-based competition at home and the effect of decision-makers’ role
Wójcik, Piotr; Ciszewska-Mlinarič, Mariola - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 8 (2020) 2, pp. 199-218
Objective: The objective of the article is to investigate how decision-makers’ perception of the level of foreign …-based competition in the home market affects their intention to de-internationalise and how decision-makers’ role moderates this … statistically significant moderating effect of decision-makers’ role. In the case of managers, the intention to de …
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Exercises in Competitive Decision Making
Clyman, Dana - 2010
One student and a counterpart must make a series of interactive decisions engaging in a competitive strategy or a cooperative strategy. Each student's goal with these exercises is to maximize his own total profit over the nine interactions. Success depends on the type of strategy chosen by each
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Does ratification matter and do major conventions improve safety and decrease pollution in shipping?
Knapp, Sabine; Franses, Philip Hans - 2009
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Economic costs of oceanacidification : a look into the impacts on shellfish production
Narita, Daiju; Rehdanz, Katrin; Tol, Richard S. J. - 2011
Ocean acidification is increasingly recognized as a major global problem. Yet economic assessments of its effects are currently almost absent. Unlike most other marine organisms, mollusks, which have significant commercial value worldwide, have relatively solid scientific evidence of biological...
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The economic impact of ocean acidification on coral reefs
Brander, Luke M.; Rehdanz, Katrin; Tol, Richard S. J.; … - 2009
Because ocean acidification has only recently been recognised as a problem caused by climate change, impact studies are still rare and estimates of the economic impact are absent. This paper estimates the economic impact of ocean acidification on coral reefs which are generally considered to be...
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