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IE WP 02/04 Technology and the environment: an evolutionary approach to sustainable technological change

Carrillo-Hermosilla, Javier - EconWPA - 2005

Can the individual actions of agents spontaneously move the system out of a state where it is locked into an environmentally inferior technology, or is coordination from outside the system necessary in the form of public intervention? More importantly, even if the system were able to make the...

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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 …

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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...

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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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Competitive neutrality in forestry

Samuels, Gary; Davies, Siobhan - EconWPA - 2001

„h States and Territories have agreed to apply competitive neutrality (CN) requirements to their commercial forestry …

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IE WP 20/03 An Evolutionary Approach to the Process of Technology Diffusion and Standardization

Carrillo-Hermosilla, Javier - EconWPA - 2005

the related phenomenon of standardization. Secondly, it aims to show a broadened and evolutionary view of the process of … technology standardization, avoiding the habitual determinism of conventional models of technology diffusion and lock-in. Finally … attributes of the technology standardization processes in them. To achieve these goals we have developed an agent based model …

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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...

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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. …

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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...

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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 …

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