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Impacts of Native Vegetation and Biodiversity Regulations
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004
Australian, state and territory regimes came under review for the Commission’s inquiry into native vegetation and biodiversity regulations. The Commission’s preliminary findings were released for public comment in December 2003. It found that the cost of farm regulations could be reduced if...
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The Porter Hypothesis Revisited: A Literature Review of Theoretical Models and Empirical Tests
Wagner, Marcus - EconWPA - 2004
The debate on the relationship between environmental regulation and competitiveness has been a topic of discussion for a number of years now. As early as 1991, the American economist Michael E. Porter proposed that stringent environmental regulation (under the condition that it is efficient) can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556930
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Strategic Quality Choice with Minimum Quality Standards
Lutz, Stefan; Lyon, Thomas P; Maxwell, John W - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
In many markets governments set minimum quality standards while some sellers choose to compete on the basis of quality by exceeding them. Such ‘high-quality’ strategies often win public acclaim, especially when ‘environmental friendliness’ is the dimension along which firms are...
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Regulation, enforcement and informality: an analysis based on selected countries
Roychowdhury, Punarjit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
interaction between governance and regulation. Thus, it is established that the quality of governance and the institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009211209
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Regulation, governance and informality: an empirical analysis of selected countries
Roychowdhury, Punarjit; Dutta, Mousumi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
regulation has a significant pay off only in the ambit of good governance. More specifically we hypothesise that degree of … intensity of regulation will hardly matter in containing informality; rather what matters is the quality of governance and … 1980 and 2008, we empirically investigate into the linkages between governance, regulation and informal employment by …
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Privatization, Corporate Control and Regulatory Reform: The case of Telefonica
Bel, Germa; Trillas, Francesc - EconWPA - 2004
This study analyzes the interaction of agency problems in public policy and of agency problems inside the firm: it investigates the case of a large privatized firm subject to many policy constraints. The last steps of Telefonica's privatization were designed to promote a disperse ownership and...
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Modern optimal governance of universities
Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper is a theoretical introduction to modern governance of universities in developing countries. Indeed, adopting …
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Economics of Philanthropic Institutions, Regulation and Governance in Turkey
Babacan, Mehmet - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper merges the literature on regulation, specifically private provision of public goods, and governance with the … discussions under the literature on regulation and governance, particularly the property rights. This paper analyzes the role of … terms of their organizational evolution and relationship to the changing governance structures in the country. Therefore …
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