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Road congestion pricing in Europe : implications for the United States

Bae, Chang-Hee Christine (contributor); … - 2008

In February 2003, the London Congestion Charging Scheme was introduced and in 2006 a similar policy was introduced in Stockholm. In both cases automobile traffic entering the cordon declined by about 20 percent. This book evaluates these and other similar programs exploring their implications...

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Biotechnology and competitive advantage : Europe's firms and the US challenge

Senker, Jacqueline (ed.); Vliet, Ronald van (organizer) - 1998

Biotechnology and Competitive Advantage investigates the development of biotechnology in Europe and the United States …. It examines why Europe has fallen behind in applying biotechnology, when its scientific capabilities are largely … biotechnology in Europe and the US. Issues discussed include: * European policy for biotechnology, in individual countries and at …

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Utility regulation in competitive markets : problems and progress

Robinson, Colin (contributor) - 2007

Introduction / Colin Robinson -- 1. Beyond regulation / Stephen Littlechild -- Comment / Colin Robinson -- 2. Ronald coase and the spectrum question / Thomas W. Hazlett -- Comment / Leonard Waverman -- 3. European energy liberalisation : progress and problems / Jorge Vasconcelos -- Comment /...

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Successes and failures in regulating and deregulating utilities : evidence from the UK, Europe and the USA

Robinson, Colin (contributor) - 2004

1. The failure of good intentions : the collapse of American telecommunications after six years of Deregulation -- 2. Road networks : efficiency, externalities and consumer choice -- 3. The Enterprise Act : pluses and minuses for competition policy -- 4. Ofcom and light touch regulation -- 5....

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Market, state, and feminism : the economics of feminist policy

Dawson, Graham; Hatt, Sue; Watson-Brown, Linda; Baxter, … - 2000

Market, State and Feminism offers an inter-disciplinary critique of the 'free market backlash' - the belief that free market economics can improve the position, status and well-being of women. The authors argue that, far from being restrictive and intrusive, state action can enhance the...

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Long-run growth and short-run stabilization : essays in memory of Albert Ando

Ando, Albert (contributor); … - 2006

system and private savings in Italy -- Do the elderly dissave in Japan? -- On robust monetary policy -- The euro and the … account -- Land prices and business fixed investment in Japan -- Rationality, behavior and switching idiosyncracies in the …

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Contingent employment in Europe and the United States

Storrie, Donald W. (contributor); … - 2003

employment in the USA -- 8. Contingent employment in the Netherlands -- 9. Conclusions : contingent employment in Europe and the …Contingent Employment in Europe and the United States examines the developments in labour markets in advanced economies …

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Learning to compete in European universities : from social institution to knowledge business

McKelvey, Maureen D. (contributor); … - 2009

This book addresses the critical issue of how and why European universities are changing and learning to compete. Anglo-Saxon universities particularly in the US, the UK and Australia have long been subject to, and responded to, market-based competition in higher education. The authors argue...

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Climate and trade policy : bottom-up approaches towards global agreement

Carraro, Carlo (ed.); Egenhofer, Christian (ed.) - 2007

differentiated integration in Europe / Noriko Fujiwara and Christian Egenhofer -- Trade, the environment and climate change …

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Limits to free trade : non-tariff barriers in the European Union, Japan and United States

Hanson, David - 2010

This book explores the growing list of non-tariff trade barriers raised by the US, EU and Japan and assesses the … -- 7. Background to trade policy in Japan -- 8. Issues concerning Japanese trade practices -- 9. A comparative perspective …

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