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The porter hypothesis and hyperbolic discounting
Chowdhury, Prabal Roy - 2010
We examine pollution-reducing R&D by a monopoly firm producing a dirty product. In a dynamic framework with hyperbolic discounting, we establish conditions under which the Porter hypothesis goes through, i.e. environmental regulation increases R&D, thus reducing pollution, as well as increasing...
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Study on the functioning of land markets in the EU member states under the influence of measures applied under the common agricultural policy
Swinnen, Johan F. M.; Ciaian, Pavel; Kancs, D'Artis - 2008
Economic theory, as well as empirical findings, suggest that the way in which agricultural support is provided has an influence on land markets, because payments capitalise to some degree into land values, affecting both the sale and rental price of land. The present paper analyses how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523474
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The capitalisation of area payments into farmland rents : micro evidence from the new EU member states
Ciaian, Pavel; Kancs, D'Artis - 2009
This study investigates the impact of the SAPS (Simplified Area Payment Scheme) on rental land values in seven New EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523656
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Distributional effects of CAP subsidies : micro evidence from the EU
Ciaian, Pavel; Kancs, D'Artis; Gómez y Paloma, Sergio - 2010
rigidities in the EU rental markets, which constraint the adjustment of land rents to market signals and thus reduce landowners …
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The impact of the EU Blue Card policy on economic growth in the African sending countries
Kancs, D'Artis; Ciaian, Pavel - 2010
In 2009 the EU adopted a new migration policy instrument - the Blue Cards (BC) - for attracting highly skilled workers … to the EU. The present paper examines the potential impacts, which BC may cause on the less developed sending countries … will also have a negative impact on knowledge capital. These findings suggest that the BC is not coherent with the EU …
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From regional to intercontinental trade : the successive European trade empires from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century in Asia
Bensassi, Sami - 2010
For a very long time, the areas available for continuous long-distance trade were limited to territories the size of Braudel's Mediterranée (1949). Whatever the commercial organizations (merchants in the Roman or the Fatimid Empires, the Hanseatic League, the Florentine Companies), their trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524083
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An application of statistical interference in DEA models : an analysis of public owned university departments' efficiency
Halkos, George E.; Tzeremes, Nickolaos G.; Kourtzidis, … - 2010
This paper uses Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model formulations in order to determine the performance levels of 16 departments of the University of Thessaly. Particularly, the constant returns to scale (CRS) and variable returns to scale (VRS) models have been applied alongside with bootstrap...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524091
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European integration and labour migration
Kancs, D'Artis; Kielyte, Julda - 2010
The present paper studies how European integration might affect the migration of workers in the enlarged EU. Unlike the … migration between the countries in the enlarged EU. In the Baltics, Lithuania would gain about 7.25% of the total work force. In ….44% (from the Baltics) and 3.61% (from the Visegrád Four) would emigrate to the EU North. Because migrants not only follow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524123
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The role of additionality in the EU cohesion policies : an example of firm-level investment support
Brandsma, Andries; Ciaian, Pavel; Kancs, D'Artis - 2010
Additionality is one of the key principles driving the functioning of the EU Cohesion Policies (ECP). The present paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524820
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EU land markets and the common agricultural policy
Ciaian, Pavel; Kancs, D'Artis; Swinnen, Johan F. M. - 2010
Economic theory, as well as empirical findings, suggest that the way in which agricultural support is provided has an influence on land markets, because payments capitalise to some degree into land values, affecting both the sale and rental price of land. The present paper analyses how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524822