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Assessing voluntary commitments : monitoring is not enough!
Böhringer, Christoph; Frondel, Manuel - 2002
This paper deals with a special type of voluntary approach to protect the environment, for example, that we would like to term voluntary commitment. Its major characteristic is that it represents a unilateral declaration without a decisively active role of regulators. In other words, voluntary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447631
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German car buyers' willingness to pay to reduce CO2 emissions
Achtnicht, Martin - 2009
choices. Based on a stated preference experiment among potential car buyers from Germany, different mixed logit specifications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887988
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CO2 emission reduction in freight transports how to stimulate environmental friendly behaviour?
Bühler, Georg (contributor); Jochem, Patrick (contributor) - 2008
In the European Union (EU) and in Germany the transport sector is the only sector with increasing CO2 emissions (in the … EU by about 32 % and in Germany by about 1 % since 1990). Especially in road freight and air transport a further strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003751444
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Efficieny losses from overlapping economic instruments in European carbon emissions regulation
Böhringer, Christoph (contributor);  … - 2006
Energy markets and energy-intensive industries in all EU member states especially in Germany are subject to a diverse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003302739
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Unemployment duration in Germany : individual and regional determinants of local job finding, migration and subsidized employment
Arntz, Melanie (contributor); Wilke, Ralf A. (contributor) - 2006
Recent labor market reforms in Germany aim, among other things, at reducing unemployment by restricting passive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003404769
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Employment impacts of cleaner production : evidence from a German study using case studies and surveys
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Rennings, Klaus - 1999
particular can not be expected to give substantial contributions to the solution of mass unemployment in Germany without using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442904
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The employment impact of cleaner production on the firm level : empirical evidence from a survey in five European countries
Rennings, Klaus; Zwick, Thomas - 2001
This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445814
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Die Ökologische Steuerreform in Deutschland : ein umweltpolitisches Feigenblatt
Böhringer, Christoph; Schwager, Robert - 2002
werden. Dann wird Umweltschutz dort geleistet, wo er am wenigsten kostet. Aus theoretischer Sicht können Abweichungen von … erheblich ab. Über weitreichende Ausnahmen wird die ökologische Lenkungswirkung stark abgeschwächt. Umweltschutz wird damit … die geringe Zahlungsbereitschaft der Wähler für Umweltschutz und die starke sektorale Konzentration von Anpassungskosten …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447190
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Socially responsible investments in Germany, Switzerland and the United States : an analysis of investment funds and indices
Schröder, Michael - 2003
The aim of this study is the analysis of so called socially responsible investments (SRI). First, the performance of SRI equity investment funds and equity indices is investigated using Jensen's alpha as performance measure. The analysis considers market timing strategies of the fund management...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448250
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Long-term impacts of environmental policy and eco-innovative activities of firms
Rennings, Klaus; Rexhäuser, Sascha - 2010
die Firmen zwischen keinem, wenig, mittlerem und hohem Beitrag zum Umweltschutz der eingeführten Innovationen wählen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008665403