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Foreign Direct Investment and Environmental Taxes
Santis, Roberto A. De; Stähler, Frank - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2000
This paper discusses environmental policies in response to foreign direct investment (FDI) in a symmetrie two-country setting, where firms' behavior affects government policy decisions. We show that two alternative equilibria with FDI are possible: (i) one with unilateral FDI, where one firm is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755237
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Organic Certification, Agro-Ecological Practices and Return on Investment: Farm Level Evidence from Ghana
Kleemann, Linda; Abdulai, Awudu - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
The recent empirical literature on economic sustainability of certified export crops shows that certification standards that enhance yields are important for improving farm revenues and farmer welfare. However, limited evidence exists on the impact of organic certification on the adoption of...
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Is Organic Farming Worth its Investment? The Adoption and Impact of Certified Pineapple Farming in Ghana
Kleemann, Linda; Abdulai, Awudu; Buss, Mareike - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
certified farming yields a significantly higher ROI than GlobalGAP certified farmers, mainly due to the price premium on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886961
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The Impact of Trade and Economic Growth on the Environment: Revisiting the Cross-Country Evidence
Abdulai, Awudu; Ramcke, Linda - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
This paper explores the interrelations between economic growth, international trade and environmental degradation both theoretically and empirically. Panel data from developed and developing countries for the period of 1980 to 2003 is used and previous critique, especially on the econometric...
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Energy Savings via FDI? Empirical Evidence from Developing Countries
Hübler, Michael; Keller, Andreas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008
In this paper we examine the influence of foreign direct investment inflows on energy intensities of developing countries empirically. We first show that a simple OLS estimation, as it is found in the literature, suggests energy intensity reductions from FDI inflows, which is consistent with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004987457
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Environmental regulation of a global pollution externality in a bilateral trade framework: The case of global warming, China and the US
Gwatipedza, Johnson; Barbier, Edward B. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
Bilateral trade and capital flows have increased substantially between the United States and China yielding economic gains to both countries. However, these beneficial bilateral relations also bring about global environmental consequences including greenhouse gas emissions. We develop a...
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Organic Pineapple Farming in Ghana - A Good Choice for Smallholders?
Kleemann, Linda - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
. Organic products earn a premium price on the market compared to conventional varieties. Hence, organic production is often … conventional production and farmers collect a fair share of the price premium on the retail level. Even more, from a theoretical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805606
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Price Transmission in the Pineapple Market – What Role for Organic Fruit?
Kleemann, Linda; Effenberger, Alexandra - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
this influences the price structure in these markets. Specifically, the paper attempts to single out the existence and … direction of causality between the conventional and organic pineapple price using the European pineapple market as an example …. We study spatial price transmission, i.e. the difference in prices between the markets for organic and conventional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008587768
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Netzwerkeffekte: eine neue Begründung für die strategische Handelspolitik?
Gröhn, Andreas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997
Network-effects may lead to imperfect competition and may therefore make a Strategie trade policy attractive for a country exporting network goods. I analyze the implications of Strategie trade policy in a model of horizontal produetdifferentiation with network effects. Within this framework,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009276298
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Deep trade policy options for Armenia: The importance of trade facilitation, services and standards liberalization
Jensen, Jesper; Tarr, David G. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
In this paper the authors develop an innovative 21 sector computable general equilibrium model of Armenia to assess the impact on Armenia of a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with the EU, as well as further regional or multilateral trade policy commitments. The authors find...
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