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Fragmentation, Outsourcing and the Service Sector

Long, Ngo Van; Riezman, Ray; Soubeyran, Antoine - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2001

We show that the growth of the service sector facilitates outsourcing, or fragmentation of production. Services link … fragmentation. On the other hand, if there are high transport costs with a bias against complex specialized services, then free … trade in specialized services may work against fragmentation. On montre que la croissance du secteur des services facilite …

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Dix exemples de rentabilité financière liés à une saine gestion environnementale

Lanoie, Paul; Tanguay, Georges A. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1998

This text presents ten Quebec examples on green profitability. Managers concerned with the quality of the environment …

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Measuring the Sustainability of Cities: A Survey-Based Analysis of the Use of Local Indicators

Tanguay, Georges A.; Rajaonson, Juste; Lefebvre, … - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2009

We analyze 17 studies of the use of sustainable development indicators (SDI) in an urban setting. The analysis reveals a lack of consensus not only on the conceptual framework and the approach favored, but also on the selection and optimal number of indicators. First, by performing different...

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Environmental Protection, Producer Insolvency and Lender Liability

Boyer, Marcel; Laffont, Jean-Jacques - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1995

liability of the different firms and individuals directly or indirectly involved in the generation of environment damaging …

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How Did Ontario Pulp and Paper Producers Respond to Effluent Regulations, 1985-89?

Fearnley, Joan; Lanoie, Paul; Thomas, Mark - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1996

This paper explores the effects of effluent regulatory activity on firm behavior in the pulp and paper industry in Ontario. The model uses instrumental variables to attempt to distinguish between that correlation between emission limits and emissions coming from regulatory capture and that...

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Modeling the Choice Between Regulation and Liability in Terms of Social Welfare

Boyer, Marcel; Porrini, Donatella - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2002

Using a formal political economy model with incomplete information regarding the accident preventing activities chosen by the firm (moral hazard) under limited liability, we illustrate different conditions under which an environmental protection system based on extending liability to private...

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Environmental Policy, Public Interest and Political Market

Lanoie, Paul; Moreau, Jérôme; Tanguay, Georges A. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2001

In this article, we highlight the factors which influence governments in their decision to implement environmental policies of varying degrees of severity. We substantiate our arguments with analytical evidence from public interest theory and the economic theory of regulation (interest group...

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Environmental Risks: Should Banks Be Liable?

Gobert, Karine; Poitevin, Michel - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1998

risk in an environment where banks cannot commit to refinance the firm in all circumstances. Following an environmental …

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Toward a Political Theory of Environmental Policy

Boyer, Marcel; Laffont, Jean-Jacques - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1996

This paper makes some steps toward a formal political economy of environmental policy. Economists' quasi-unanimous preferences for sophisticated incentive regulation is reconsidered. First, we recast the question of instrument choice in the general mechanism literature and provide an incomplete...

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Monitoring of Pollution Regulation: Do Local Conditions Matter

Dion, Catherine; Lanoie, Paul; Laplante, Benoit - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1996

Economists have greatly criticized regulations that impose uniform environmental standards on plants which may differ in terms both of their marginal abatement cost and marginal damage functions. Such a critic ignores however that the implementation of the standards may vary significantly across...

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