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Market-based instruments are becoming the environmental management tool of choice and have provided a new perspective on the conventional wisdom about policy instruments. This book analyses the complexities of designing and implementing market-based instruments using case study experiences from...
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The use of dynamic models to address the problem of environmental degradation is central to environmental policy because decisions taken now affect not only the current generation but have a profound impact on the future. In this innovative book, Frank Hettich uses dynamic modelling to study the...
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In evaluating environmental policy, researchers have tended to focus on the industry or market that is targeted by regulation and to disregard policy impacts in other parts of the economy. Recent research indicates, however, that in economies where governments rely on distortionary taxes,...
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this book, Kurt Kratena studies the employment effects of revenue neutral tax shifts from labour to energy, and measures … equilibrium model only finds employment double dividend effects. The book also highlights the potentially positive economic … appraisal of the general double dividend question combined with an innovative analysis of the employment double dividend effect …
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analyses how employment levels and real wages are affected by international trade. Popular trade theory disregards the impact … of free trade on the rate of unemployment, since it assumes full employment at the outset. By focusing on the …
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Struggles over what a region receives, or should receive, from the budget of the central government are common to many countries. Discussions often focus on the measures of 'net fiscal flows' or 'fiscal balances' provided by the government or other actors. This unique book shows just how these...
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This book analyzes political decentralization and fiscal federalism in Canada and Germany, both traditional federal countries, and in Spain, a unitarian country engaged in the last two decades in a process of decentralization. Three key issues required for a well designed financing system are...
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Financing Decentralized Expenditures presents new original research papers on the structure of intergovernmental fiscal relations in virtually all types of countries and the design and implementation of transfer mechanisms between different levels of government. In developing, transition, and...
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develop entrepreneurship research and theory / Yanqing Lai, George Saridakis and Chris Hand -- 8. Using RCTS as a research …
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"This insightful book examines all aspects of the design process and implementation of questionnaire surveys on the activities of business, public sector, and non-profit organizations. Anthony Arundel discusses how different aspects of the survey method and planned statistical analysis can...
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