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The new monetary policy : implications and relevance
McCombie, J. S. L. (contributor);  … - 2005
Beginning with an assessment of new thinking in macroeconomics and monetary theory, this book suggests that many countries have adopted the New Consensus Monetary Policy since the early 1990s in an attempt to reduce inflation to low levels. It goes on to illustrate that the explicit control of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851789
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The economic analysis of substance use and abuse : the experience of developed countries and lessons for developing countries
Grossman, Michael (ed.); Hsieh, Chee-Ruey (ed.) - 2001
. However, the experience of developed countries is very relevant to the developing world since substance abuse is likely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474092
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Tax evasion and firm survival in competitive markets
Palda, K. Filip - 2001
Tax Evasion and Firm Survival in Competitive Markets illustrates how a firm with high production costs but which is easily able to evade taxes may displace from the market a company with low production costs but poor tax evasion capabilities. The difference in production costs between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851115
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Reforming transport pricing in the European Union : a modelling approach
Borger, Bruno de (contributor); Proost, Stef (contributor) - 2001
This timely book deals with the problem of pricing passenger and freight transportation within Europe. The contributors argue that current legislation affecting pricing and regulation is increasingly less successful in dealing with market failures and externalities such as congestion, air...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851849
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The costs of economic growth
Victor, Peter A. - 2013
Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, 16 (2), April, 137-42 -- Arthur P.J. Mol (2011), 'China's Ascent and … Environment: Whose Growth? Whose Environment?', World Development, 20 (4), 481-96 -- Paul Ekins (1993), '"Limits to Growth" and …-31 -- Peter Bartelmus (2009), 'The Cost of Natural Capital Consumption: Accounting for a Sustainable World Economy', Ecological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852334
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Environmental policy analysis with limited information : principles and applications of the transfer method
Desvousges, William H.; Johnson, F. Reed; Banzhaf, H. … - 1998
The transfer study, a technique used in cost-benefit analysis, is an increasingly important tool used by government agencies to assess environmental regulatory policy. This innovative book develops protocols for using the transfer method to approach environmental problems and introduces several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473959
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Modelling the costs of environmental policy : a dynamic applied general equilibrium assessment
Dellink, Rob B. - 2005
This important new book enhances our understanding of the dynamic interactions between economic activity, economic growth, pollution abatement and environmental policy. It addresses one main policy problem: how can the direct and indirect costs of environmental policy for multiple pollutants be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474004
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Environmental costs and liberalization in European air transport : a welfare economic analysis
Schipper, Youdi - 2001
With air transport becoming an increasingly vital part of the economy, the regulatory reform of this market has been a major development in European political economy. This book focuses on two market failures within the airline industry - market power and environmental externalities - and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474091
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Green accounting in Europe : a comparative study, volume 2
Markandya, Anil (contributor);  … - 2005
Using spatially desegregated data on measures of pollution to derive economic damage estimates, the main purpose of the book is to gauge the environmental damage sustained as a result of economic activities and to offer an insight into how the information generated can be used in conjunction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420061
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Blockchain + antitrust : the decentralization formula
Schrepel, Thibault - 2021
Contents: Preface -- Introduction: The decentralization -- Part 1 a common ambition -- 1. Blockchain: From ideology to implementation -- 2. Blockchain's toolbox -- 3. Blockchain and darwin -- 4. Decentralization? -- 5. Comes antitrust: The paradox -- Part 2 best frenemies? -- 6. The theory of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012704219