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Estimating the size of the potential market for all three flexibility mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol
Zhang, ZhongXiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
The Kyoto Protocol is the first international environmental agreement that sets legally binding greenhouse gas emissions targets and timetables for Annex I countries. It incorporates emissions trading and two project-based flexibility mechanisms, namely joint implementation and the clean...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616753
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Emotions and International Conflicts: Sociological, Evolutionary and Rational Views
Khalil, Elias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In March 2005, riots erupted in South Korea against Japan for claiming sovereignty over some rocky uninhabited islets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837321
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The Great Recession: a comparison of recession magnitudes in Europe, USA and Japan
Mazurek, Jiří - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In this article recession magnitudes in Europe, the USA and Japan during the Great Recession are compared. The … strongest recessions (of severe category) occurred in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, while recessions in Japan and the USA were …-1933 in the USA. Hence, comparisons of the Great Recession to the Great Depression in the literature are somewhat exaggerated. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258149
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International economic theory and politics: world structure before, during and after the early 21st Century Crisis
Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
system that then existed in the world, and (c) the transition from a uni-polar world, with the U.S.A. as the single center of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596380
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Managerialism and the Demise of the Big Three
Locke, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This essay is about the crisis of US automobile management and the difficulties that management educators and practitioners in America have had facing up to that crisis. It focuses on Detroit’s Big Three but it also looks at the role Japanese firms played in transferring JMS (Japanese...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514907
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TQM practices and affective commitment: a case of Malaysian semiconductor packaging organizations
Boon, Ooi Keng; Safa, Mohammad Samaun; Arumugam, Veeri - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The purpose of the present study is to examine the effects of the five elements of TQM practices on employees’ affective commitment within six major Malaysian semiconductor contract manufacturing organizations. Despite extensive research on TQM practices, the issue of linking TQM practices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005786998
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Unemployment and inflation in Western Europe: solution by the boundary element method
Kitov, Ivan; Kitov, Oleg - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and the United States. Autoregressive properties of neither of these variables are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837146
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Technology Transfer and Spillovers in International Joint Ventures
Müller, Thomas; Schnitzer, Monika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
It is often argued that multinationals are reluctant to transfer technology due to the fear of spillovers. We show that this need not be the case if host country policies like taxation are taken into account. Furthermore, we examine the incentives the multinational and the host country have to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835219
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Policy and Product Differentiations Encourage the International Transfer of Environmental Technologies
Hattori, Keisuke - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper investigates the welfare effects of international transfers of environmental technologies in open economies with international oligopoly and transboundary pollution, and shows that policy differentiation between the donor and recipient countries and/or product differentiation between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837075
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Identification of University Inventors and University Patenting Patterns at Lund University:Conceptual- Methodological & Empirical Findings
Goktepe, Devrim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
One of the most interesting indicators to show the change in the socio-economic role of universities in the last several decades has been the use of university patenting. However except some individual studies in European countries (e.g. Finland, Norway, Belgium, Italy, Germany and France) there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837335