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Effects of Global Fisheries on Developing Countries: Possibilities for Income and Threat of Depletion

Eggert, Håkan; Greaker, Mads - 2009

This study deals with fisheries and trade, focusing on developing countries. Fish is globally traded, and for many … developing countries, it is an important net export good. In most of these countries, fisheries are often characterized by poorly … they can catch due to limited monitoring and enforcement activities. Even in developed countries, many fisheries are poorly …

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Trade, GMOs, and Environmental Risk: Are Policies Likely to Improve Welfare?

Eggert, Hakan; Greaker, Mads - 2008

Food with inputs from genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has met considerable skepticism among European Union (EU) consumers. The EU import ban on GM food has triggered a great deal of controversy and has been replaced by a mandatory labeling scheme. This study had two foci. First, we...

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Climate policy without commitment

Golombek, Rolf; Greaker, Mads; Hoel, Michael - 2010

Climate mitigation policy should be imposed over a long period, and spur development of new technologies in order to make stabilization of green house gas concentrations economically feasible. The government may announce current and future policy packages that stimulate current R&D in...

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Eco-labels, Production Related Externalities and Trade

Greaker, Mads - 2002

We analyze the trade and welfare effects of eco-labels in a domestic market with one domestic firm and one foreign firm. Pollution is production related, and the government can choose between including the product category in an eco-label scheme and setting an environmental standard. The...

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Industrial Competitiveness and Diffusion of New Pollution Abatement Technology - a new look at the Porter-hypothesis

Greaker, Mads - 2004

We study the relationship between industrial competitiveness, adaption of cleaner production techniques and environmental policy. While other contributions have analyzed environmental innovations with point of departure in the polluting firm, we introduce an up-stream market for new pollution...

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Strategic Climate Policy in Small, Open Economies

Greaker, Mads; Rosendahl, Knut Einar - 2006

According to environmental interests groups governments should use their climate policy strategically in order to provide for a faster introduction of new, cleaner technologies. Strategic use of climate policy could also induce the development of a successful upstream abatement technology...

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From natural resources and environmental accounting to construction of indicators for sustainable development

Alfsen, Knut H.; Greaker, Mads - 2006

Norway has a long history in trying to develop management tools for sustainable development. From the early development of natural resources accounts in the 1980's, through discussions of the usefulness of indices like "green GDP" to efforts of developing sustainable development indicators,...

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Can voluntary product-labeling replace trade bans in the case of GMOs?

Greaker, Mads; Chen, Yuyu - 2006

Genetically modified (GM) food has raised both health-risk fears and environmental concerns. This has led some countries to ban the trade in such food triggering a great deal of controversy among countries. In this paper we ask under what conditions will voluntary labeling of GM-free food be at...

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Industrial Competitiveness and Diffusion of New Pollution Abatement Technology – a new look at the Porter-hypothesis

Greaker, Mads - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2004

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From natural resources and environmental accounting to construction of indicators for sustainable development

Alfsen, Knut H.; Greaker, Mads - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2006

Norway has a long history in trying to develop management tools for sustainable development. From the early development of natural resources accounts in the 1980’s, through discussions of the usefulness of indices like “green GDP” to efforts of developing sustainable development...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980642