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From Periphery to Centre.The Image of Europe at the Eastern Border of Europe
Şipoş, Sorin; Moisa, Gabriel; Cepraga, Dan Octavian; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The volume From Periphery to Centre. The Image of Europe at the Eastern Border of Europe gathers the papers presented … distances between centre and periphery and their common traits as well, as they are revealed in the various images of Europe and … propose a double perspective: on the one hand periphery viewed from the centre and on the other periphery as it sees itself …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108818
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Regional Public Goods: From Theory to Practice
Adhikari, Ramesh; Negroni, Mirka J.; Leino, Jessica; … - Inter-American Development Bank
This book is based on a conference entitled "Regional Public Goods and Regional Development Assistance", held in Washington, D.C. on November 6-7, 2002. It examines how the IDB and the ADB support the provision of regional public goods (RPGs) in Latin America and Asia, respectively. RPGs are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943426
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Reconstructing Climate Policy
Stewart, Richard B.; Wiener, Jonathan B. - American Enterprise Institute
An examination of the current impasse in climate policy and the potential steps nations can take to reduce greenhouse gases.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273224
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What Has the Kyoto Protocol Wrought?
Hahn, Robert W.; Stavins, Robert - American Enterprise Institute
This volume investigates the potential performance of the Kyoto Protocol's international trading mechanisms in the presence of diverse types of domestic greenhouse policy instruments.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273238
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Genetically modified organisms in agriculture: social and economic implications
Davies, Ben; Richards, Caspian; Spash, Clive L.; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
, and largely concerned with scientific evidence of harm to human health and the environment. This contrasts with the public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260900
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Regional Public Goods: From Theory to Practice
Adhikari, Ramesh; Negroni, Mirka J.; Leino, Jessica; … - Inter-American Development Bank
This book is based on a conference entitled "Regional Public Goods and Regional Development Assistance", held in Washington, D.C. on November 6-7, 2002. It examines how the IDB and the ADB support the provision of regional public goods (RPGs) in Latin America and Asia, respectively. RPGs are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772372
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The Relationship between Common Management and Ecotourism Development: Tragedy or Triumph of the Commons? A Law and Economics Answer
Samà, Danilo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Since its origin, ecotourism development has been at the centre of controversial and heated debates within the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839481
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Constitutions, Regulations, and Taxes: Contradictions of Different Aspects of Decentralization
Libman, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The paper confronts different aspects of decentralization: fiscal decentralization, post-constitutional regulatory decentralization, and constitutional decentralization – using a single dataset from Russian Federation of the Yeltsin period as a politically asymmetric country. It finds...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005020501
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Structure, agency and change in the car regime: A review of the literature
Marletto, Gerardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper is aimed at filling the gap between the already well structured literature on the 'car regime' and the … of the car regime: 1) the car regime was established thanks to the ability of purposeful private actors to use the …-dependence phenomena lock the society into the car regime. For the future, the dominant scenario appears to be the internal transformation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151288
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Endogenous growth, decline in social capital and expansion of market activities
Bartolini, Stefano; Bonatti, Luigi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
We model in an endogenous growth set-up the hypotheses that the expansion of market activities weakens social capital formation, and that firms can invest in formal mechanisms of control and enforcement to substitute for social capital (trust, work ethics, honesty). The model shows that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835993