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This paper sheds new light on the assessment of firm networks via multiple directorships in terms of corporate firm performance. Using a large sample of European listed firms in the period from 2003 to 2011 and system GMM we find a significant compensation effect on corporate firm performance...
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The food industry has been seen as one of the most successful sectors in Bulgaria with potential to growth. At the same time agriculture and food industry have had large negative effect on the environment. For reduction of the potential harmful environmental impact caused by agricultural and...
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The paper presents findings of a large study on socio-economic impacts of the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster on the Japanese agriculture and food sector. It contains fourteen parts: introduction with the framework of analysis; a brief description of events and...
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The March 11, 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear plant accident have had immense impacts on Japanese agri-food sector. Previous analysis has demonstrated that some of the impacts that triple disaster are difficult to identify and assess due to the insufficient information, controversial data,...
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The Paraná State, one of the fastest growing states in the Brazilian economy, has gone through a lot of structural changes in the last two decades. In this time period, the primary sector activities lost in importance to the secondary and the tertiary sectors. In this process of going from an...
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In recent years, the concept of Regional Innovation Systems has evolved into a widely used analytical framework … generating the empirical foundation for innovation policy making. Yet, the approaches utilizing this framework remain ambiguous … on such key issues as the territorial dimension of innovation, e.g., the region, and the apparently important role played …
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of sound environmental decision making, Environment Canada and other government agencies have jointly participated in the …
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plants within a region. The emissions inventories (GECOT and AIRS for the USA and RDIS for Canada) were used as the major … variation (differences in marginal costs of removal) across emission regions. Preliminary analysis using Environment Canada … of Canada based on these cost functions. …
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in Canada. The paper begins with a discussion of structural features of the economy which impinge on the adjustment of …
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designed in a way that would balance the impacts on the economy with improvements in environmental quality. Environment Canada …
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