The analysis of the inner workings of the firm has been largely absent from economic assessments of environmental policy. In an effort to partly fill this vacuum, this book summarises the results of an OECD project which collected and analysed data from over 4,000 facilities in seven OECD...

Public housing was once an important strand in western housing policies, but is seldom seen as a mainstream policy instrument for the future. In contrast, in many East Asian countries large public housing programs are underway. Behind these generalizations, there are exceptions, too. By...

Preface -- Part I: Introduction -- 1 Context, Purpose and Structure of the Book.- 2 State Aid for Newspapers.- Part II: Theories -- 3 State Support for News -- 4 Industrial Subsidies -- 5 Newspaper Subsidies and Journalistic Quality -- 6 State Aid to the Press in the EU -- 7 Press Governance.-...

In the past decades, the notion of differentiated subsidiary roles within multinational network corporations has inspired a considerable amount of research. Surprisingly, the question of whether headquarters and subsidiary managers perceive a certain subsidiary’s role in the same way has been...