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Voluntary approaches, market structure and competition

Brau, Rinaldo; Carraro, Carlo - 1999

This paper surveys the recent literature devoted to the analysis of the interactions between the adoption of voluntary or negotiated agreements as a tool of environmental policy and market structure. The goal of this survey is twofold. On the one hand, we would like to identify the market...

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Post-Privatisation Ownership Structure and Productivity in Russian Industrial Enterprises

Earle, John S. - 1999

This paper investigates the impact of ownership structure on the productivity performance of Russian industrial …

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Firms' international status and heterogeneity in performance: Evidence from Italy

Casaburi, Lorenzo; Gattai, Valeria; Minerva, G. Alfredo - 2008

inputs off-shoring. Third, in terms of the productivity dynamics over the period 1998-2003, exporters' performance in Italy …

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Weather Impacts On Natural, Social And Economic System (WISE) Part I: Sectoral Analysis of Climate Impacts in Italy

Galeotti, Marzio; Goria, Alessandra; Mombrini, Paolo; … - 2004

This paper focuses on the results of the research work carried out by Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) within the WISE project. This project aims at investigating the effects and the impacts of extreme weather events, particularly very warm summers, mild winters and storms, on the...

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A theory of strategic vertical DFI and the missing pollution-haven effect

Yu, Zhihao - 2002

This paper develops a theory of strategic vertical DFI (direct foreign investment) to suggest an explanation for the empirical puzzle of the missing `pollution-haven' effect. It focuses on a firm's strategic incentive to create multi-market interdependence (in addition to other conventional...

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National Versus International Mergers and Trade Liberalization

Yildiz, Halis Murat - 2003

This paper uses an endogenous merger formation approach in a concentrated international oligopoly to examine the effects of trade liberalization on the nature of merger incentives (national vs. international). The effects of unilateral trade liberalization on a country's industry structure are...

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Competition and Irreversible Investments under Uncertainty

Moretto, Michele - 2003

This paper examines the effect of competition on the irreversible investment decisions under uncertainty as a …

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SME Performance, Innovation and Networking Evidence on Complementarities for a Local Economic System

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna - 2007

The paper addresses the relevancy of networking activities and R&D as main drivers of productivity performance and … on productivity drivers and on complementarity between R&D and networking strategies, with respect to firm productivity … and process/product output innovation. R&D is a main driver of innovation and productivity, even without networking. This …

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Output quality and sources of profit change in the English and welsh water and sewerage companies

Maziotis, Alexandros; Saal, David S.; Thanassoulis, Emmanuel - 2012

This paper investigates the determinants of profit change over the period 1991-2008 for the Water and Sewerage Companies (WaSCs) in the English and Welsh water and sewerage industry. We firstly apply an input oriented profit decomposition approach following the approach of De Witte & Saal...

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Profit, productivity and price performance changes in the English and welsh water and sewerage companies

Maziotis, Alexandros; Saal, David S.; Thanassoulis, Emmanuel - 2012

-specific (temporal) index number based profitability growth as a function of the profitability, productivity and price performance growth … that the steady decline in average price performance, gains in productivity and relatively stable economic profitability … after 2000, suggest that Ofwat is now more focused on passing productivity benefits to consumers, and maintaining stable …

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