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Who issues debt securities in emerging countries?
Mamoru, Nagano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper focuses on the differences of capital market accessibility and investigates the determinants of firm debt securities issuance in emerging countries. The following results are derived from the empirical analysis. First, country panel analyses showed that the debt securities market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323440
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Corporate governance and innovation: an organizational perspective
Belloc, Filippo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Traditional economic studies of innovation, built on the contribution of Schumpeter, cannot explain why firms of the … same size and market power can show largely different innovation performances. Contrastingly, the literature on corporate … governance provides some useful insights for understanding corporate innovation activity, to the extent that such literature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529324
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La Responsabilité Sociale et L'éthique Environnementale – Éléments de la Culture Écologique dans les Entreprises du XXIe Siècle : L’etude sur les entreprises roumaines
Mironiuc, Marilena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
During the last decade, the business community ends especially the companies that activate in the fields responsible for the degradation of the environment, are seen as subjects whose main role is to ensure sustainable development. They must face growing pressures from the stakeholders, who wish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835422
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Economic Valuation of a Wetland in West Bengal, India
Mukherjee, Sacchidananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In the Gangetic flood plain of West Bengal, wetlands are used for multiple purposes, and have significant role in the livelihoods of the local people. Over the years, these Multiple Use Systems (MUSs) are getting converted to single use systems due to economic and social pressure from dominant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835941
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Negative externalities as the engine of growth in an evolutionary context
Antoci, Angelo; Bartolini, Stefano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
We present a simple growth model which has two original features: the strategic context considered, which is an evolutionary game, and the growth mechanism described, in which growth is caused by negative externalities. The emphasis in this growth mechanism is evidently different from that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836025
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The Stability of Sustainable Development Path and Institutions: Evidence from Genuine Savings Indicators
Sato, Masayuki; Samreth, Sovannroeun; Sasaki, Kengo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper investigates institutional factors affecting the performance of genuine savings (GS), which is often used in assessing sustainable development, adopting a model of autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity in mean. We pay particular attention to the contribution of institutions to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260427
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Economic growth and its impact on environment: A panel data analysis
Asici, Ahmet Atıl - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper aims to explore the relationship between the economic growth and the pressure on nature from the environmental sustainability perspective. We measure pressure on nature as the sum of energy, mineral, net forest depletions and carbon dioxide damage, all measured in US dollars. The data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009004203
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The Impacts of Water Pollution on Economic Development in Sudan
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Water pollution is a chronic crisis in Sudan that is rarely researched. However, it is combined with scarcity, disputes and uncertainty. In The current paper we introduce its concepts with emphasis on the growing problems of pollution combined with scarcity. A Case study of the growing problem...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147918
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Agro-Ecosystem Services – Governance Needs and Efficiency
Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper incorporates the interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics and suggests a holistic framework for analysis of management agro-ecosystem services. That new approach for analyses and assessment of management of agro-ecosystem services includes: definition of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008684891
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Tackling climate change through adaptation finance in the Least Developed Countries: Is the LDC Fund still fit for purpose?
Davis, Junior; Tan, Celine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper considers the challenges confronting LDCs in meeting the adaptation and mitigation requirements brought on by the climate crisis and addresses the question as to whether the Least Developed Country Fund (LDCF), which is a key source of LDC climate adaptation finance, is still fit for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693578