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Greening of the innovation system? Opportunities and obstacles for a path change towards sustainability - the case of Germany
Kurt Hubner, Jan Nill, Christian Rickert - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 4 (2001) 4, pp. 454-473
A sustainable economy requires a change in the current path of economic development. The political and societal task is a transition to a new path consisting of more environmentally friendly technologies, products and consumption patterns. Environmentally beneficial technological innovations are...
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Making Growth More Environmentally Sustainable in Germany
Kirkpatrick, Grant; Klepper, Gernot; Price, Robert W.R. - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2001
pollueurs les plus importants ont eu tendance à être exemptés des réglementations les plus strictes, du fait de préoccupations …
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CONTEXTUALISING AND CONCEPTUALISING THE REFORM OF ENVIRONMENTALLY HARMFUL SUBSIDIES IN GERMANY
RAVE, TILMANN - In: Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and … 07 (2005) 04, pp. 619-650
While the reform of environmentally harmful subsidies has often been identified as a potential means to simultaneously realise environmental, economic and fiscal benefits, little guidance is available on designing possible paths for subsidy reform. This paper aims to better conceptualise a...
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France and its allies: A comparative study of defence spending trends since 1985
Aufrant, Marc - In: Defence and Peace Economics 10 (1999) 1, pp. 79-102
Within the EU France devotes to defence the largest financial and human resources although it is not the richest …
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Is employment of social risk groups the key to sustaining the European welfare regimes?
Josifidis, Kosta; Supic, Novica; Pucar, Emilija Beker; … - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 6, pp. 623-640
consideration, we use the balanced panel of 14 EU countries from 1995 to 2006 in order to provide some evidences that could support …
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Industry, Foreign Trade and Employment in EU Countries; Comparison of France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK with the United States
GUISAN, Maria-Carmen - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 11 (2011) 2
development, with particular reference to the negative effects of excessive trade deficits and industrial decline in some EU … countries in the period 2000-2010. We compare 5 major EU countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) with … support. Our suggestion is that EU industrial policy should be more effective in order to improve development and quality of …
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Peripheral Europe's debt and German wages: the role of wage policy in the Euro area
Stockhammer, Engelbert - In: International Journal of Public Policy 7 (2011) 1/2/3, pp. 83-96
The paper argues that the Greek debt crisis, as well as those of other Southern European countries and Ireland, has to be seen in macroeconomic context. The sum of the public sector balance, the (domestic) private sector balance and the current account deficit (or equivalently: the capital...
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Can Reform Models of Value Added Taxation Stop the VAT Evasion and Revenue Shortfalls in the EU?
Gebauer, Andrea; Nam, Chang Woon; Parsche, Rudiger - In: Journal of Economic Policy Reform 10 (2007) 1, pp. 1-13
VAT evasion caused by the growth of carousel fraud has recently led to significant VAT revenue losses in the EU …. Carousel fraud works such that intra-EU firms repeatedly carry out cross-border supply and purchase of goods and services …
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Testing the shape of EMU term structure of interest rates
Ruiz-Dotras, Elisabet; Bolance-Losilla, Catalina; … - In: International Journal of Financial Markets and Derivatives 1 (2010) 4, pp. 422-437
The creation of EMU raises the question whether the common monetary policy has the same impact in all member countries. We analyse the convergence of interest rates in four major EMU countries from 1999 to 2007. We suggest to test the convergence of the interest rates with the full term...
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International trade patterns and labour markets – an empirical analysis for EU member states
Zeddies, Goetz - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 1/2, pp. 96-115
, neither inter- nor vertical intra-industry trade (VIIT) do have a verifiable effect on wage spread in EU member states. As far …
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