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Waste Management in the Various Municipalities of Various Socio-Economic Conditions (An Empirical Evidence from Pakistan)
Hasan, Syed Akif; Subhani, Muhammad Imtiaz; Osman, Ms. Amber - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
of Pakistan and therefore, they do not generate the healthy waste management practices in almost every municipality and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368166
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The deficit mechanism of the Hungarian municipalities
Vasvári, Tamás - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The management of the Hungarian municipal sector has received special attention since the crisis in 2008 and interest in the sector increased further due to the changes in legislation in 2011. A great number of economy experts and speakers on behalf of the government or the municipalities...
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Open Space Purchases, House Prices, and the Tax Base
Donald, Vandegrift; Michael, Lahr - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper examines the effect of public acquisitions of open space on house prices and the municipal tax base. While a series of studies show that open space acquisitions raise values of nearby properties, no research to date appears to focus upon the effect of open space acquisitions upon...
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Entscheidungsproblem Unternehmen - Standort
Eisold, Hans-Elmar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Die Standortnotwendigkeit ist Problem und Chance für Unternehmen (Standortsuche) und Standorte (Standortmarketing) gleichermaßen. Unternehmen sind dabei dem Einfluss durch die Gewichtung von Shareholder- und/oder Stakeholderinteressen unterworfen und der Wirkung harter wie weicher...
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When formal institutions fail in fostering economic growth: the case of post-communist countries
Tamilina, Larysa; Tamilina, Natalya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The article explains the peculiarities of institutional effects on growth rates in post-communist countries. By proposing a certain dependence of the institution-growth nexus on the nature of institutional emergence, the distinction between revolutionary and evolutionary processes of institution...
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The conditions for functional mechanisms of compensation and reward for environmental services
Swallow, Brent; Leimona, Beria; Yatich, Thomas; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Mechanisms of compensation and reward for environmental services (CRES) are becoming increasingly contemplated as means for managing human–environment interactions. Most of the functional mechanisms in the tropics have been developed within the last 15 years; many developing countries still...
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The Theory of Institutional Change Revisited: The Institutional Dichotomy, Its Dynamic, and Policy Implications in a More Formal Analysis
Elsner, Wolfram - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The original institutionalist theory of institutional change as elaborated by Paul D. Bush (1987) in the traditions of …-behavior patterns. Bush’s paper was certainly one of the most important ones in Institutionalism. The Theory of Institutional Change …, econometrics, network analysis, graph theory, or game theory—in fact, often applied only bluntly in the mainstream—have been …
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The Impact of Institutions on Economic Performance
Leukert, Andreas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This dissertation analyzes the importance of institutions for economic performance. The first two chapters assess the importance of institutions empirically, while the last one provides a dynamic model of institutional change. Chapter 1 analyzes the robustness of institutions in growth...
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Supranational Integration And National Reorganization
Baskaran, Thushyanthan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We explore the implications of European integration for scal decentralization in EU member states with a dataset on 21 OECD countries over the 1975-2000 period. The dierence-in-dierence methodology is used to establish causality. EU member states are classied as the treatment and non-EU OECD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529216
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The Institution of Douglass North
McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
North, with many other Samuelsonian economists, thinks of “institutions” as budget constraints in a maximization problem. But as Clifford Geertz put it, an institution such as a toll for safe passage is “rather more than a mere payment,” that is, a mere monetary constraint. “It was...
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