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Who issues debt securities in emerging countries?
Mamoru, Nagano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper focuses on the differences of capital market accessibility and investigates the determinants of firm debt securities issuance in emerging countries. The following results are derived from the empirical analysis. First, country panel analyses showed that the debt securities market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323440
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Corporate governance and innovation: an organizational perspective
Belloc, Filippo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Traditional economic studies of innovation, built on the contribution of Schumpeter, cannot explain why firms of the … same size and market power can show largely different innovation performances. Contrastingly, the literature on corporate … governance provides some useful insights for understanding corporate innovation activity, to the extent that such literature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529324
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An Empirical Survey of the Ramifications of a Green Economy
Heshmati, Almas - 2014
The unprecedented deterioration of our global environment has increased the necessity of relying upon Green Economic policies as critical and effective environmental management tools. The current situation has stimulated extensive research and debate among global interest groups. This has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055566
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The Stability of Sustainable Development Path and Institutions: Evidence from Genuine Savings Indicators
Sato, Masayuki; Samreth, Sovannroeun; Sasaki, Kengo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper investigates institutional factors affecting the performance of genuine savings (GS), which is often used in assessing sustainable development, adopting a model of autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity in mean. We pay particular attention to the contribution of institutions to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260427
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Measuring Weak Sustainability for the future: Calculating Genuine Saving with population change by an integrated assessment model
Koji, Tokimatsu; Takanobu, Kosugi; Atsushi, Kurosawa; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper presents a future figure of Genuine Saving with population growth (GSn). This was enabled by using an integrated assessment model, similar to the RICE model by Nordhaus. The model consists of sub-models that evaluate various kinds of mineral resources and environmental impacts....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078652
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Is Mozambican Growth Sustainable? A Comprehensive Wealth Accounting Prospect
Timothée, Ollivier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We estimate the wealth of Mozambique in 2000 and 2005 in order to assess the sustainability of its development path. Our methodology builds on Arrow et al. (2007). We show that Mozambican growth is driven mainly by human and physical capital accumulation, while the pressure on natural capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078663
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The usefulness of aggregate sustainability indicators for policy making: What do they say for Madagascar?
Ollivier, TO - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper we compare the practical policy implications that can be derived from the calculation of three aggregate sustainability indicators for Madagascar. The chosen indicators are: the Adjusted Net Saving, the Genuine Progress Indicator, and the Ecological Footprint. Our results are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078687
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Governing of Agro-Ecosystem Services
Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper we incorporate interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics (combining Economics, Organization, Law, Sociology, Behavioral and Political Sciences), and suggest a framework for analysis of mechanisms of governance of agro-ecosystem services. Firstly, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025716
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In quest for a sustainable motorization: the CNG opportunity
Stocchetti, Andrea; Volpato, Giuseppe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This article aims at describing the opportunity deriving from the substitution of conventional fuels, as gasoline and diesel, with the Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), frequently indicated as methane. The use of CNG systems in vehicles cannot be considered the ultimate solution to the problem of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643752
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Is there any relationship between Environmental Quality Index, Human Development Index and Economic Growth? Evidences from Indian States
Mukherjee, Sacchidananda; Chakraborty, Debashis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Economic growth does not necessarily ensure environmental sustainability for a country. The relationship between the two is far more complicated for developing countries like India, given the dependence of a large section of the population on natural resources. Under this backdrop, the current...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596405