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Corporate environmentalism : antecedents and influence of industry type
Banerjee, Subhabrata Bobby; Iyer, Easwar S.; Kashyap, … - University of South Australia; University of Massachusetts; … - 2003
How does a business firm manage its relationship with the natural environment? What are the factors that influence the choice of such strategies? Does industry type matter? The authors introduce and operationalize the concept of corporate environmentalism in an effort to answer these questions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009482043
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DISCERNING Intra-Metropolitan Patterns of Producer Service Establishment Location using Geographic Information Systems
Lindsay, Francis - 2005
The research presented in this dissertation explores the spatial distribution of producer service establishments in the Washington DC area for 1997. Producer services are a distinct and important segment of the US industrial economy. These businesses provide the intermediary goods and services...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450967
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Copper Mining and Environmental Costs in Dominica
Harris-Charles, Emaline L.; Pemberton, Carlisle A. - 2007
A proposal from an international mining company to establish a copper mining operation in the Caribbean island of Dominica could be highly favourable, given the potential for financial benefits associated with such a project. On the downside, such projects are often associated with environmental...
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On the Accuracy of Regulatory Cost Estimates
Harrington, Winston; Morgenstern, Richard D.; Nelson, Peter - 1999
This study compares ex ante estimates of the direct costs of individual regulations to ex post assessments of the same regulations. Our review of more than two dozen environmental and occupational safety regulations indicates that ex ante estimates of total (direct) costs have tended to exceed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445419
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A multiple account framework for cost-benefit analysis
Campbell, Harry F.; Brown, Richard P. C. - 2005
The paper presents a spreadsheet-based multiple account framework for cost-benefit analysis which incorporates all the usual concerns of cost-benefit analysts such as shadow-pricing to account for market failure. distribution of net benefits. sensitivity and risk analysis, cost of public funds,...
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Economic internationalisation and the distribution of income : a comparison of the cases of Germany and the U.S.
Wacker, Ulrich - 2002
U.S.and Germany. The benchmark for assessing the empirical analyses theoretically is the general equilibrium framework … reality of labour market rationing and itsdistributional implications both in the U.S. and Germany. … U.S.and Germany. The benchmark for assessing the empirical analyses theoretically is the general equilibrium framework …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471731
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Determinants of successful immigrant entrepreneurship in the Federal Republic of Germany
Fertala, Nikolinka - 2005
, including Germany, in the last decade of the twentieth century, has also led to an increase in the immigrant entrepreneurship …. More precisely, the self-employment structure of immigrants to Germany changed tremendously since the 1970s. For instance …, this dissertation investigates the determinants of successful immigrant entrepreneurship for whole Germany as well as for …
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The USA As A Model? Germany's immigration policy on the test stand
Wüst, Andreas M. - 1995
Deutschland hat eine weit zurückreichende Tradition als Einwanderungsland. Im internationalenVergleich gehört die … Bundesrepublik Deutschland mittlerweile zu den größten Einwanderungsländern.Deutschland betreibt jedoch … Deutschland von der Einwanderungs- und Integrationspolitik des größtenklassischen Einwanderungslandes, der USA, etwas lernen …
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Deutsche Kapitalbeteiligungsgesellschaften im Umfeld der globalen Finanzkrise 2008/2009
Hummel, Detlev - 2011
Situation auf dem formellen Beteiligungsmarkt in Deutschland nach dem Ausbruch der Finanzkrise. Neben den allgemeinen …
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A dynamic life cycle model for Germany with unemployment uncertainty
Biewald, Anne - 2008
Diese Arbeit modelliert das Spar- und Konsumverhalten von Individuen in Deutschland mit einem Lebenszyklusmodell. Dabei …
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