Ziel der Arbeit ist es, sytematisierend und analysierend zu ermitteln, wie die Ökonomie des kommunalen Sektors optimiert werden kann. Dies ist ein Ziel von hoher Komplexität.(...)

Petrakis and Xepapadeas (1996) proposed a system of self-financed transfers to expand the number of countries that sign an international environmental agreement. They also suggested a mechanism that detects cheating in those agreements when the emissions of an individual country cannot be...

Mit Hilfe der vorliegenden Disseration soll geklärt werden, in wie weit sich die Betriebstwirtschaftslehre in Südkorea der Umweltschutzproblematik annimmt.

The Porter hypothesis suggests that environmental regulations, such as restricting firms to reduce pollution, stimulates innovations and create a win-win situation for the environment and for firms. It has received a great deal of attention from academics as well as bureaucrats who disagree...

In this paper we give an example in which the price of tradeable emission permits increasesdespite firms' adoption of a less polluting technology. This is in contrast with Montero (2002) andParry (1998), among others. If two Counot players switch to a cleaner technology, the price forpermits may...