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Economic consequences of the German environmental liability act: Capital market response for the chemical industry

Bartsch, Elga - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997

profitability of the German chemical industry. If sizeable precautionary pollution control measures and liability payments were to …

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Enforcement of environmental liability in the case of uncertain causality and asymmetric information

Bartsch, Elga - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1996

In providing precautionary incentives and allocating environmental risk, liability for environmental damages faces two difficulties: randomness of damages incurred and nonobservability of precautionary measures. Hence, a major obstacle in enforcing legal claims is the difficulty of proving...

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Political risk guarantees and capital flows: The role of bilateral investment treaties

Mina, Wasseem - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015

political risk guarantees in financial integration, regulation of financial markets and institutions, and capital liberalization. …

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Ocean Iron Fertilization in the Context of the Kyoto Protocol and the Post-Kyoto Process

Bertram, Christine - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

Ocean iron fertilization is currently discussed as a potential measure to mitigate climate change by enhancing oceanic CO2 uptake. Its mitigation potential is not yet well explored, and carbon offsets generated through iron fertilization activities could currently not be traded on regulated...

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Economic and legal aspects of international environmental agreements: The case of enforcing and stabilising an international CO 2 agreement

Heister, Johannes; Mohr, Ernst; Plesmann, Wolf; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1995

The protection of the global environment is impeded by multilateral externalities which the international community attempts to bring under control by entering into international agreements. International agreements, however, can suffer from non-compliance and free-riding behaviour by sovereign...

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Ocean iron fertilization: Why further research is needed

Güssow, Kerstin; Proelss, Alexander; Oschlies, Andreas; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

Despite large uncertainties in the fertilization efficiency, natural iron fertilization studies and some of the purposeful iron enrichment studies have demonstrated that Southern Ocean iron fertilization can lead to a significant export of carbon from the sea surface to the ocean interior. From...

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Liberalisierung des internationalen Dienstleistungshandels: Analyse des GATS und Perspektiven für die zukünftige Handelsliberalisierung

Krancke, Jan - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1999

Die vorliegende Untersuchung stellt die Probleme des internationalen Dienstleistungshandels dar; sie analysiert und bewertet die derzeit gültigen Regelungen des GATS. Sowohl die konzeptionelle Problematik der Definition von Dienstleistungen und Dienstleistungshandel, als auch die sich aus der...

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More Stringent BITs, Less Ambiguous Effects on FDI? Not a Bit!

Berger, Axel; Busse, Matthias; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Roy, … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

We focus on investor-state dispute settlement provisions contained in various, though far from all, bilateral investment treaties as a possible determinant of BIT-related effects on bilateral FDI flows. Our estimation results prove to be sensitive to the specification of these provisions as well...

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Do Trade and Investment Agreements Lead to More FDI? Accounting for Key Provisions Inside the Black Box

Berger, Axel; Busse, Matthias; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Roy, … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

The previous literature provides a highly ambiguous picture on the impact of trade and investment agreements on FDI. Most empirical studies ignore the actual content of BITs and RTAs, treating them as "black boxes", despite the diversity of investment provisions constituting the essence of these...

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The WTO and Environmental Provisions: Three Categories of Trade and Environment Linkage

Khalilian, Setareh - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

to three separate dimensions of environmental damage is set out clearly: domestic, cross-border and global pollution. The … paper concludes is that only cases of cross-border and global pollution can legitimize trade measures against environmental … pollution, albeit only direct trade interventions are really effective in these cases …

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