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Finding a path in the sustainability jungle. A framework for corporate action.
Seelos, Christian - EconWPA - 2005
Collective concerns about sustainable development and proposals about how to achieve sustainability have produced a … sustainability; and yet the lack of clear definitions has left a vacuum of corporate guidance. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR …) has become a synonym for corporate action towards sustainability, but companies continue to struggle to understand how to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062681
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Wertschaffendes Umweltmanagement. Keine Nachhaltigkeit ohne ökonomischen Erfolg. Kein ökonomischer Erfolg ohne Nachhaltigkeit
Figge, Frank - EconWPA - 2004
Die Studie „Wertschaffendes Umweltmanagement“ betrachtet den Zusammenhang zwischen Umweltaspekten und Unternehmenswert. Hierbei bezieht sie erstmals zwei unterschiedliche, sich ergänzende Bewertungsverfahren ein: Sie nimmt erstens das Konzept des Environmental Shareholder Value auf und...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407755
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556186
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Stable pricing in multiproduct natural monopoly (in French)
Iehlé, Vincent - EconWPA - 2004
We provide some existence results of stable pricings for natural monopoly as defined in the theory of contestable markets. The main addings are based on the assumption of separated markets and the possibilities of entries. We borrow tools from cooperative game theory. Following the work of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125630
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Audit externe sur la dette globale du Canton du Valais / External audit of the overall debt of the Swiss canton of Valais
Soguel, Nils; Iogna-Prat, Simon - EconWPA - 2005
of the sustainability of the Valais’ public debt in order to determine if its level is excessive or not. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125990
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Trade Liberalization and Industrial Pollution in Mexico: Lessons for the FTAA"
Gallagher, Kevin - EconWPA - 2001
As the barriers to hemispheric trade and integration are lowered, it will be asked whether we will we hear the "giant sucking sound" of poorer nations luring U.S. and Canadian firms south to take advantage of low wages and lax environmental regulations? Or, will Latin American nations passively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062608
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ECONOMIC / ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEM INTERACTION
Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 2003
of sustainability while establishing a consistent system of units for both the solar flux and economic transformation … processes. Conditions for a virtuous cycle dynamic in relation to sustainability is expressed, adhering to non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062749
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Modelo para valorar la atribución de Sustentabilidad
Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 2004
The identification is made of those conditions by which it is possible to generate synergy or mutually enforcing relations between economic development and environment conservation with the perspective of a systems entropy flow limits. Monetary and fiscal policies are the framework of structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062755
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Replicating Microfinance in the United States: Opportunities and Challenges
Schreiner, Mark; Morduch, Jonathan - EconWPA - 2001
In developing countries, microfinance has been the darling of the development community, and in developed countries, microfinance fits well with Third Ways ideas. What are the challenges and opportunities for the attempt to replicate microfinance in the United States? This paper attempts to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407699
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Intergenerational Transfers, Lifetime Welfare and Resource Preservation
Valente, Simone - EconWPA - 2005
This paper studies the welfare properties of distortionary transfers in a life-cycle growth model where natural capital is private property. The main result is that, under credible pre-commitment, each newborn generation prefers positive taxes-subsidies to laissez-faire conditions when the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408406