Voluntary approaches, such as corporate codes of conduct, have been widely advocated as alternatives to traditional approaches to environmental regulation. Yet concern remains that companies cannot be trusted to police themselves and that many of the putative advantages of self regulation, such...

Auch wenn sich Australien und Neuseeland seit den 1980er-Jahren zu attraktiven Reisezielen des internationalen Tourismus entwickelt haben und die Tourismusbranche beider Länder mittlerweile eine tragende wirtschaftlichen Säule darstellt, gibt es im deutschsprachigen Raum nahezu keine...

With farms cultivating tens or hundreds of thousands of hectares, Ukraine is often used to demonstrate the existence of economies of scale in modern grain production. Panel data analysis for all the country's farms with more than 200 hectares in 2001-2011 suggests that higher yields and profits...