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Honeybee economics : implications for ecology policy
Kanniainen, Vesa; Lehtonen, Tuula; Mellin, Ilkka - 2013
For thousands of years, humans have known the value of honeybees in agriculture. Their pollination services are crucial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733002
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The circular economy
Fullerton, Don - 2024
Research about the circular economy is dominated by engineers, architects, and social scientists in fields other than economics. The concepts they study can be useful in economic models of policies – to reduce virgin materials extraction, to encourage green design, and to make better use of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529224
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An evaluation of protected area policies in the European Union
Grupp, Tristan Earle; Mishra, Prakash; Reynaert, Mathias; … - 2023
biodiversity. This paper uses the staggered introduction of protected-area policies between 1985 and 2020 to study the selection of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444040
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Economic analysis, sustainability and environmental commons
Musu, Ignazio - 2013
When confronted with market weaknesses and failures determining sustainability problems for environmental common … factors at work in determining the role of institutions to deal with sustainability issues and explores the implications of … issues: climate change and biodiversity. Involvement of governments and a reference framework provided by intergovernmental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223360
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To consolidate or not to consolidate? : a multi-step analysis to assess needed fiscal sustainability
Afonso, António; Alves, José; Jalles, João Tovar - 2022
specifically on their degree of success, notably in terms of fiscal sustainability. The "need" to consolidate is based on having a … primary balance above or below the debt-stabilizing primary balance (provided by the IMF's Debt Sustainability Analysis) for … each country. We then link the need for and the actual (historical) existence of fiscal adjustments to their sustainability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938962
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Measuring the immeasurable : the evolution of the size of informal economy in the agricultural sector in the EU-15 up to 2019
Schneider, Friedrich; Morkunas, Mangirdas; Quendler, Erika - 2021
This study is the first scientific attempt to calculate the size of the informal economy in agriculture. The Multiple … higher levels of informal economy in agriculture compared to the overall economy. The impact of subsidies and farm … organizations on the development of the informal economy are two important factors for these higher values in agriculture. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012486396
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VAT and agriculture : lessons from Europe
Cnossen, Sijbren - 2017
Farmers are often exempted from VAT for administrative and political reasons. But this means that the VAT on their inputs cannot be "washed out" through the tax deduction/credit mechanism. To compensate farmers for the uncompensated VAT on inputs, the EU has devised a flat-rate scheme that...
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Is Western European agriculture resilient to high temperatures?
Massetti, Emanuele; Van Passel, Steven; Apablaza, Camila - 2018
agriculture is likely to be smooth. …
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What do we really know about fiscal sustainability in the EU? : a panel data diagnostic
Afonso, António (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003641707
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Trust in government and fiscal adjustments
Bursian, Dirk; Weichenrieder, Alfons J.; Zimmer, Jochen - 2013
The paper looks at the determinants of fiscal adjustments as reflected in the primary surplus of countries. Our conjecture is that governments will usually find it more attractive to pursue fiscal adjustments in a situation of relatively high growth, but based on a simple stylized model of...
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