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...

Partial ownership can be used as a screening device by a foreign firm which wants to merge with a local firm whose productivity is private information. As partial ownership is confined to sharing future merger profits, it cannot achieve complete separation in all cases but improves expected...

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...