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Carbon Leakage Revisited : Unilateral Climate Policy with Directed Technical Change
Di Maria, C.; van der Werf, E.H. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005
The increase in carbondioxide emissions by some countries in reaction to an emission reduction by countries with climate policy (carbon leakage) is seen as a serious threat to unilateral climate policy.Using a two-country model where only one of the countries enforces an exogenous cap on...
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The Foundations of Corporate Social Responsibility (replaced by CentER DP 2014-069)
Renneboog, Luc; Liang, H. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2013
sustainability, and document strong correlations between country-level sustainability ratings and various extensive firm-level CSR … institutions – democratic rules and constraints to political executives – are not preconditions for CSR and sustainability, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115329
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Finance and Society: : On the Foundations of Corporate Social Responsibility (Revised version of CentER DP 2013-071)
Renneboog, Luc; Liang, H. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2014
between shareholder and stakeholder values. Using public and proprietary country-level sustainability and firm-level CSR data … CSR and sustainability the least, while companies under the civil law origin assume most social responsibilities; (c …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011119925
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Price effects of trading and components of the bid-ask spread on the Paris Bource
de Jong, Frank C. J. M.; Nijman, Theo; Roell, A.A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011092082
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Cleaner Technologies and the Stability of International Environmental Agreements
Benchekroun, H.; Ray Chaudhuri, A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012
Abstract: This paper shows that, if countries are farsighted when deciding whether to defect from a coalition, then the implementation of cleaner technologies may jeopardize the chances of reaching an international environmental agreement. The grand coalition may be destabilized by the...
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'The Voracity Effect' and Climate Change : The Impact of Clean Technologies
Benchekroun, H.; Ray Chaudhuri, A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2010
In the absence of a successful international cooperative agreement over the control of emissions there is a growing interest in the role that clean technologies may play to alleviate the climate change problem. Within a non-cooperative transboundary pollution game, we investigate, analytically...
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The Role of Institutional Support in Energy Technology Diffusion in Rural China
Groenendaal, Willem van; Zhang, X.L. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001
reorganised its institutional framework, which now aims at learning and improving profitability to diffuse technologies ….Simultaneously the decision to use a technology has been shifted from officials to the consumers and profitability of a technology has … become the main decision criterion.This paper analyses the effect of learning and profitability in technology diffusion and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011090918
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Embodied Cognition, Organization and Innovation
Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006
This chapter explains and employs a constructivist, interactionist theory of knowledge that has come to be known as the perspective of 'embodied cognition'. That view has roots in earlier developmental psychology, and in sociology, and more recently has received further substance from neural...
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Organizational Design and Management Accounting Change
De Waegenaere, Anja; Matejka, M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2000
Changing management accounting systems requires more than appropriate implementation.It is argued that structural characteristics of an organization, centralization in particular, should also be taken into account when deciding on a change.Centralization implies higher costs of communication...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011091933
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Lying in Business : Insights from Hannah Arendt’s ‘Lying in Politics’
Graafland, Johan; Eenkhoorn, P. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2010
The famous political philosopher Hannah Arendt develops several arguments why truthfulness cannot be counted among the political virtues. This article shows that similar arguments apply to lying in business. Based on Hannah Arendt’s theory, we distinguish five reasons why lying is a structural...
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