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Changing business perceptions regarding biodiversity: from impact mitigation towards new strategies and practices
Houdet, Joël; Trommetter, Michel; Weber, Jacques - HAL - 2009
Business activities play a major role in biodiversity loss and, as a result, firms are under increasing pressures from … stakeholders to reduce their negative impacts on living systems. In response, business attitudes, behaviors and strategies … regarding biodiversity are progressively changing, suggesting that interactions between business and biodiversity could go …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793652
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Accounting for changes in biodiversity and ecosystem services from a business perspective
Houdet, Joël; Pavageau, Charlotte; Trommetter, Michel; … - HAL - 2009
a business perspective. First, we seek to analyze how Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) may be used by firms to … changes in business accounting and reporting standards. Because this would imply significant changes in business information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793760
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A Rational Irrational Man?
Harin, Alexander - HAL - 2006
A man is a key subject of economics. “A man is irrational” - this opinion can be made from Allais paradox, risk aversion and other well-known fundamental problems. For a long time, this opinion was a barrier to proper solution of these problems and the development of the economics. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794157
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Growth vs level effect of population change on economic development: An inspection into human-capital-related mechanisms
Boucekkine, Raouf; Martínez, Blanca; Ruiz-Tamarit, Ramon - HAL - 2011
We study the impact of demographic change on economic short and long-term dynamics in an enlarged Lucas-Uzawa model with intratemporal altruism. Demographics are summarized by population growth rate and initial size. In contrast to the existing literature, the long-run level effects of...
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Human capital, technical change and the welfare state
Benabou, Ronald - Banca d'Italia - 2002
I study the interactions between the distribution of human capital, technological choice, and redistributive institutions. I first ask what makes alternative social contracts such as a European-style "welfare state" and US-style "laissez-faire" sustainable, and in particular how each is affected...
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Where do human capital externalities end up?
Dalmazzo, Alberto; Blasio, Guido de - Banca d'Italia - 2005
Recent literature has aimed at evaluating human capital externalities by estimating the effect of human capital on wages at urban level. We argue that this methodology might not identify properly human capital spillovers. We consider a general equilibrium model based on Roback (1982) where both...
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Heterogeneity in Human Capital and Economic Growth
Zotteri, Stefania - Banca d'Italia - 2002
This paper explores the growth-enhancing role played by heterogeneity in human capital accumulation. It develops a growth model that takes into account more than one mechanism for accumulating human capital; in particular, schooling and on-the-job training are considered. The paper demonstrates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005609329
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Ingredients for the New Economy: How Much does finance matter?
Bugamelli, Matteo; Pagano, Patrizio; Francesco Patern� - Banca d'Italia - 2001
Both macro and (still scarce) micro evidence support the idea that a new economy is emerging in the US, not (yet) in Europe. Some have argued that the inadequacies of Europe�s financial system are an important part of the explanation. This paper, after surveying the existing literature on...
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Barriers to investment in ICT
Bugamelli, Matteo; Pagano, Patrizio - Banca d'Italia - 2001
We investigate the diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICT) in Italian manufacturing using microdata. We find a positive correlation at firm level between ICT investment, human capital of the labor force and reorganization. Starting from row data, we build a measure of ICT...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005609371