. Recycling and human capital formation use productive factors and are rooted therefore, as all other activities, in the material …. Ecoefficiency contributes to reducing material waste in all processes. Recycling can reduce the diffusion of waste by feeding it … back into the economy. Human capital enhances productivity, eco-efficiency and the quality of all kinds of outputs …

in the Netherlands, and contains information on teenage time use, income, expenditures, and subjective measures of well … social interactions. For some types of behavior (e.g. truancy, smoking, pocket money, alcohol expenditures) endogenous social …

This paper studies why multinational firms often share ownership of a foreign affiliate with a local partner even in … the absence of government restrictions on ownership. We show that shared ownership may arise, if (i) the partner owns …. In this context shared ownership acts as a screening device. Our model predicts that the multinational?s ownership share …

-post bargaining. Optimal ownership structures are characterized and a new role for option contracts is identified. …

unbundling are still advantageous when we allow for discriminatory capacity investments, investments into marginal cost reduction …

imperfections in legal unbundling (keeping ownership fixed) generally increases total output. Increasing the incumbent's ownership …, higher ownership shares of the downstream incumbent may sometimes lead to lower degrees of imperfections. Our analysis … suggests that consumers may benefit most from legal unbundling with strong regulation and parts of ownership given to a …

found that influence is associated with larger, government-owned firms that have a high degree of ownership concentration …. In contrast, foreign ownership matters little. It is also found that the extent to which government policies and …