This document analyses German environmental policies, including, among others, discussion of air and water quality policy, use of the waste management hierarchy approach and of voluntary agreements. The German public has been highly sensitive to environmental concerns, leading to many policy...

The volume provides a thorough analytic treatment of recent environmental policy problems. All papers discuss these problems by a rigid economic analysis of these issues. The contributions of this volume discuss the double dividend hypothesis, the role of non-profit organisations for...

This paper employs a multi-industry general equilibrium model of oligopolistic competition, free market entry and trade in which capital is used to establish firms and labor is used for production. We show that both absolute and relative endowments matter for the pattern of trade. We demonstrate...