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The article discusses the implementation of a new scheme for the outcome-based remuneration of environmental goods and services of agriculture that has been carried out as a case study in the period 2004 to 2006 in a German model region (county Northeim in the south of Lower-Saxony). This new...
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Managed grasslands contribute in a number of ways to the biodiversity of European agricultural landscapes and provide a … wide range of ecosystem services that are also of socio-economic value. Against the background of a rapid biodiversity loss … schemes for grassland plant biodiversity. Hence the design, implementation and results of the adapted case-study payment …
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The European Union's Council Regulation on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development has introduced auctioning as a new instrument for granting agri-environmental payments and awarding conservation contracts for the recent multi-annual budgetary plan....
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Empirical studies on the link between green investment and other business investment at the firm level either focus on innovation specific types of investment or fail to consider the simultaneity of investment decisions. The analysis to be presented here offers a broad focus on different types...
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Only recently have the aspects of pollution and environmental protection entered into the empirical literature about international firm activities. The present paper is the first firmlevel study on the link between foreign ownership and environmental protection in Germany. We find that, ceteris...
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This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...
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Discrimination, September 11th, Exit from unemployment. This paper examines whether the attacks on the World Trade …
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actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It documents that firms that export to countries inside the euro-zone are …
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