Since 1975 the European Union has developed an impressive body of waste management legislation, though, according to the principle of subsidiarity, responsibilities belong to the most local level at which the tasks can be carried out effectively. This paper examines several factors that...

The ongoing debate on the ``service gap'' in Germany has lead to empirical findings bolstering the argument of a lack of outsourcing activities.Hence, there is still a need to back these findings from an organisational point of view. After a short overview on empirical findings, the present...

The main objective of the European Council Directive 96/61/EC concerning integrated pollution prevention and control is to achieve an integrated approach of environmental protection by co-ordinating the authorization procedures of the competent authorities. However, by prescribing the permit...

There is robust experimental evidence that in the ultimatum game real players often prefer a fair allocation which seems to be in contrast to rational decision making. In this paper rational maximizing behavior as well as norm-guided fair behavior are two possible behavioral rules. It is argued...

In standard market theory demand and cost functions have to be known to compute optimal price or quantity responses. In case of risk or uncertainty the decisions depend on expectations, i.e. estimated parameters. Even in case of rational inference these expectations itself are uncertain, at...

While modern theorising on the microfoundation of macroeconomics makes intense use of the representative firm notion, severe objections have been raised. Regarded from the history of thought this is the second time that its usefulness is called into question. The paper presents an old literature...

With the forthcoming single currency the current discussion on fair returns not only focuses on the transfers to the EC but also on the implicit gains and losses in seigniorage revenues for each single participant of the EMU. After a short clarification of differient concepts of seigniorage and...

This paper considers environmental labelling (or ecolabelling for short) as an informational instrument of environmental policy. It examines some economic aspects of environmental labelling, for example, the function of product certification to overcome market failures for environmental superior...

Paul Geroski has established two stylized facts with respect to the prevalence of differential changes (mobility) of indicators of economic and technological performance indicators: technological indicators show a larger amount of mobility than do economic indicators. We assess the two stylized...

Es wird gezeigt, daß unter plausiblen Annahmen im Rahmen der bekannten technologischen Möglichkeiten (``technologisches Regime'') keine dauerhafte Entkopplung des Wachstums vom Umweltverbrauch, d.h. kein nachhaltiges Wachstum möglich ist. Das zentrale Argument ist, daß im Zuge des...