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Regime shifts and uncertainty in pollution control
Zeeuw, Aart de; Zemel, Amos - 2012
We develop a simple model of managing a system subject to pollution damage under risk of an abrupt and random jump in …. -- environmental pollution ; optimal management ; catastrophic transitions ; uncertainty ; adaptation ; mitigation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009489041
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Information asymmetry, education signals and the case of ethnic and native Germans
Hornig, Stephan O.; Rottmann, Horst; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2009
whether the signalling value differs between the migrants and non-migrants in the German labour market. Starting from the … administrative data from the German Federal Employment Agency. -- sorting theory ; human-capital theory ; returns to education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003854405
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Pandemic meets pollution : poor air quality increases deaths by COVID-19
Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Pestel, Nico - 2020
We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany … patients (80+ years): higher levels of air pollution by one standard deviation 3 to 12 days after developing symptoms increase … deaths by 30 percent (males) and 35 percent (females) of the mean. In addition, air pollution raises the number of confirmed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012263327
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Works councils and environmental investment : theory and evidence from German panel data
Askildsen, Jan Erik; Jirjahn, Uwe; Smith, Stephan C. - 2002
Firms may underinvest in local environmental protection even from the private viewpoint of its owners and employees, but works councils may help mitigate this problem. We show that increases in environmental investments when councils are present could be employee-led, firm-led, or jointly-led....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541029
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Umweltleistung von Unternehmen : von der Öko-Effizienz zur Öko-Effektivität
Stahlmann, Volker; Clausen, Jens - 2000 - 1. Aufl.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001498206
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Green serves the dirtiest : on the interaction between Black and Green Quotas
Böhringer, Christoph; Rosendahl, Knut Einar - 2009
Tradable black (CO2) and green (renewables) quotas gain in popularity and stringency within climate policies of many OECD countries. The overlapping regulation through both instruments, however, may have important adverse economic implications. Based on stylized theoretical analysis and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003897546
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Adding geography to the new economic geography
Bosker, Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003498831
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Exports and capacity constraints : evidence for several euro area countries
Belke, Ansgar; Oeking, Anne; Setzer, Ralph - 2015
We argue that, under certain conditions, firms consider exports as a substitute for domestic demand. Our econometric model for six euro area countries suggests domestic demand and capacity constraints as additional variables for export equations. We apply the exponential and logistic variant of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300368
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Debt stabilization and debt mutualization in a monetary union with endogenous risk premia
Engwerda, Jacob Christiaan; Aarle, Bas van; Weeren, … - 2015
In this paper we analyse debt stabilization in a monetary union that features endogenous risk premia. In particular, we analyse debt stabilization in two diametrically opposed regimes. In the first regime, the "national fiscal discipline regime", financial markets impose sovereign risk premia...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011350136
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Explosive target balances
Potrafke, Niklas; Reischmann, Markus - 2013
Using the new unit root test by Phillips et al. (2011) we show that the Target balances of the German Bundesbank have been exploding from the beginning of 2009 to the beginning of 2013. By implementing a full-allotment policy and reducing the required minimum quality of collaterals in October...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764406