This paper discusses environmental policies which aim at a sustainable use of domestic resources which are mobile. It assumes that one country introduces such a policy but the other country does not. If a resource is mobile, strict domestic environmental policies may increase the resource...

In diesem Beitrag untersuchen wir die Wirkung einer veränderten Regelung für Sozialhilfe auf das Arbeitsangebot. Die unterstellte Neuregelung zeichnet sich dadurch aus, daß der implizite Steuersatz für das Arbeitseinkommen von Transferempfängern von derzeit 100 vH auf einen niedrigeren Wert...

The Earth Summit in Rio was expected to pave the way for more and effective cooperation with respect to biodiversity. This paper discusses the approaches which were adopted at the summit and the benefits of biodiversity which are closely related to innovations of the biotechnology industries....

This paper sheds some light on the possible implications of compensations which are paid for the maintenance of an environmental stock. It shows that serious complications can arise if the resource-owner can vary the compensation price. In that case, extraction-driven stock preservation policies...

This paper discusses the role of transfers in a non-cooperative environment. If reselling in-kind-transfers involves some retrading costs, in-kind transfers are supposed to realise at least some of the mutual bargaining gains which would be left unexploited by mere use of monetary payments....

This paper discusses the issue of competitiveness and environmental regulation in a dynamic framework. It presents an example and a general model. It is shown that the dynamic framework cannot lend general support to the hypothesis that strict environmental policies result in an increase in...

This paper discusses a simultaneous market entry game between two firms with different fixed costs. This case is a typical application of mixed strategy equilibria. Conventional wisdom would suggest that the low-cost firm is more likely to enter the market. This presumption is wrong. Instead,...