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The Effectiveness of Dutch Municipal Recycling Policies
Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Gradus, Raymond - 2014
The EU advocates a household waste recycling rate of more than 70%. Although the Netherlands already years ago invested in recycling policies heavily, this is still a large challenge as nowadays on average this rate is approximately 50% and nearly no municipalities have a rate above 70%. Given...
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Why do OECD-Countries trade more?
de Groot, Henri L.F.; Linders, Gert-Jan; Rietveld, Piet - 2003
Ineffective institutions increase transaction costs and reduce trade. This paper shows that differences in the … effectiveness of institutions offer an explanation for the tendency of OECD countries to trade disproportionately with each other …
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The Institutional Determinants of Bilateral Trade Patterns
de Groot, Henri L.F.; Linders, Gert-Jan; Rietveld, Piet; … - 2003
This paper studies the effect of institutions on trade flows, using a gravity modelapproach. We start from a standard …-18%. Furthermore, a better quality of formal institutions tends to coincide with moretrade. An increase in regulatory quality of one …
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Institutional Determinants of Bilateral Trade: An Analysis according to Product Type
Linders, Gert-Jan M.; de Groot, Henri L.F.; Rietveld, Piet - 2005
the international market and insecurity of property rights and contract enforcement have recently been emphasized as … estimate gravity equations to investigate how trade patterns are affected by variation in the quality of institutions across … countries. The results show that institutions matter most for trade in differentiated goods. This variation in the importance of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325354
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Contracting out, an Empirical Study on Motives
Wassenaar, Mattheus; Groot, Tom; Gradus, Raymond - 2010
Municipalities may have various motives for decisions on the mode of their task execution. Empirical studies – based on both public choice and transaction costs theory - have not yet provided a fully comprehensive explanation for municipal contracting out decisions. Therefore, we held...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325826
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Does the Canadian Economy suffer from Dutch Disease?
Beine, Michel; Bos, Charles S.; Coulombe, Serge - 2009
We argue that the failure to disentangle the evolution of the Canadian currency from the U.S. currency leads to potentially incorrect conclusions regarding the case of Dutch disease in Canada. We propose a new approach that is aimed at extracting both currency components and energy- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325816
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Does the Canadian Economy Suffer from Dutch Disease?
Beine, Michel A. R.; Bos, Charles S.; Coulombe, Serge - 2014
We argue that the failure to disentangle the evolution of the Canadian currency from the U.S. currency leads to potentially incorrect conclusions regarding the case of Dutch disease in Canada. We propose a new approach that is aimed at extracting both currency components and energy- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014201102