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Linking weak and strong sustainability indicators : the case of global warming
Rennings, Klaus - 1997
The aim of this paper is to describe and discuss the weak and strong sustainability approach of assessing climate change and to show reasonable applications, weaknesses, possible improvements and linkages of both approaches. Main features of weak and strong sustainability approaches are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428104
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The extent of collective bargaining and workplace representation : transitions between states and their determinants. A comparative analysis of Germany and Great Britain
Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Bryson, Alex; Pahnke, … - 2009
Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and Britain. That said, comparatively … in Germany and still less in both countries about firm transitions between these institutions over time. The present … and the erosion of sectoral bargaining in Germany, and identify the respective roles of behavioral and compositional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003894436
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Wissenschaft in veränderten Umwelten - Mikrostrukturen institutionellen Wandels : zur programmatischen Orientierung der Forschungsgruppe Wissenschaftspolitik
2012
Die Innovationsfähigkeit moderner Gesellschaften hängt an der Wissenschaft, lautet die verbreitete Annahme. Entsprechend hoch sind die politischen und gesellschaftlichen Erwartungen. Doch folgt Wissenschaft oft eigenen Regeln und Handlungslogiken. Von großem Interesse sind für die...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009520039
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Reforming an institutional culture of corruption : a model of motivated agents and collective reputation
Valasek, Justin - 2015
Recent empirical studies suggest that poor public sector performance in developing nations is due in part to the difficultly of selecting workers whose motivation is aligned with the mission of the institution -- in direct contrast to evidence from developed nations, public sector workers tend...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281179
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Dynamic reform of public institutions : a model of motivated agents and collective reputation
Valasek, Justin - 2016 - Revised October 2016
State capacity is optimized when public institutions are staffed by individuals with public-service motivation. However, when motivated agents value the collective reputation of their place of employment, steady-state equilibria with both high and low aggregate motivation (reputation) in the...
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A model of equilibrium institutions
Guimarães, Bernardo; Sheedy, Kevin D. - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009553622
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Sources of institutional innovation : an interpretive essay
Runge, Carlisle Ford - 1983
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Social institutions and economic inequality : modeling the onset of the Kuznets curve
Alvarez-Pereira, Brais; Bale, Catherine S. E.; Furtado, … - 2015
Theoretical models of the Kuznets Curve have been purely analytical with little contribution towards an understanding of the timing of the process and the presence of additional mechanisms affecting its timing. This paper proposes an agent-based version of Acemoglu and Robinson's model of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012057437
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Democracy and the quality of economic institutions : theory and evidence
Krieger, Tommy - 2022
We present a simple model, illustrating how democracy may improve the quality of the economic institutions. The model further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect of democracies on economic institutional quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342090
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A regulatory framework for a policy of sustainability : lessons from the neo-liberal school
Rennings, Klaus (contributor) - 1997
In this paper targets, institutions and policy measures for describing and implementing sustainable development are evaluated in terms of their conformity with the economic framework of a market system. Firstly, from the viewpoint of neo-liberal economic thinking as conceived by the German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428103