Many cities across Europe and Central Asia are experiencing the impacts of climate change, but most have not integrated climate adaptation into their agendas. This paper examines the threats faced and measures that can be taken by cities in the region to protect buildings, heritage sites,...

The impacts of climate change are expected to create numerous challenges for cities. This report synthesizes key points raised in a series of discussions among “adaptation leaders” from fourteen cities around the world. Critical issues for urban adaptation that emerged from the discussions...

After the fall of the communist regime, the Czech government placed an emphasis on economic growth and development. Although research has been conducted on national-level change and civil society reactions to new institutions and initiatives, little is known about the transition process at the...

Air pollution ranks as one of the most serious environmental problems worldwide due to its impacts on human health, natural ecosystems, cultural and historical monuments, aesthetics and economic welfare. It is a particularly significant problem in the formerly communist states of central and...

Voluntary environmental programs (VEPs) have become a popular alternative to traditional regulation. However, little is known about whether these programs are sending accurate signals about the environmental practices of their participants. As a means for understanding signaling accuracy, this...

In his paper "Does utility curvature matter for indeterminacy", Kim (2005) analyzed the relationship among the utility function form, curvature and indeterminacy, concluding that the relationship between curvature and indeterminacy is not robust in neoclassical growth model and the indeterminacy...

Dromel and Pintus [Are Progressive Income Taxes Stabilizing?, Journal of Public Economic Theory 10, (2008) 329-349] have shown that labor-income tax progressivity reduces the likelihood of local indeterminacy, sunspots and cycles in a one sector monetary economy with constant returns to scale....

We examine the role of tariffs levied on the imported production factor in a one-sector small open economy real business cycle model. We show that under perfect competition and constant returns-to-scale, the model may exhibit local indeterminacy and sunspots as tariff rates are endogenously...

CrCuN films were deposited under different substrate temperatures by direct current (DC) magnetron sputtering. The structure and wear resistance of the films were then studied. The substrate temperature has almost no effect on the film composition, phase constitution and preferred orientation....