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The Distribution of Wages in Poland, 1992-2002
Newell, Andrew; Socha, Mieczysław W. - 2005
This paper analyses the changes in the size distribution of wages in Poland over a decade of transition. Until about … wages was the decline, between 1992 and 1998 in labour market participation of those with low levels of education. Wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271758
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Now or Never: Environmental Protection under Hyperbolic Discounting
Winkler, Ralph - 2009
The author analyzes the optimal investment in environmental protection in a model of an infinite series of non-overlapping hyperbolically discounting agents. He shows that without a commitment mechanism society is eventually stuck in a situation where all agents prefer further investment in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298585
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German geographical research on Japan
Flüchter, Winfried - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302310
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The use of trade measures for environmental purposes - globally and the Eu context
Vikhlyaev, Alexey - 2001
This paper assesses the scope for and implications of trade measures for environmental purposes in the WTO and the European Union. The assessment is illustrated by a number of cases that have tested the limits of legal provisions in the WTO and EU dealing with issues arising at the intersection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608830
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Environmental Governance in Hungary - Rural Development Policies and Social Learning during the Implementation of EU Agri-Environmental Policies - A Case Study
Nemes, Gusztáv - 2010
The Rural Development Regulation (RDR) within the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), as an exemplary manifestation of the New Rural Development Paradigm, has achieved significant results. Nevertheless, it has increasingly become liable to institutional complexity and central control in an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494423
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Now or Never: Environmental Protection under Hyperbolic Discounting
Winkler, Ralph - 2006
In this paper, we extend the well known result that hyperbolically discounting agents tend to postpone costs into the future. In a simple model we show that, without commitment to the ex ante optimal plan, no investment in environmental protection is undertaken over the whole time horizon, no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753124
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Investitionsbewertung unter Berücksichtigung von Umweltschutz als eigenständigem Formalziel
Stahl, Stefan - 2012
Ansätze der Investitionsbewertung unter Berücksichtigung von Umweltschutz kombinieren klassische Investitionsrechenverfahren …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319301
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Kapitalismus als System zur Verwirklichung moralischer Anliegen - Ordonomische Denkanstöße
Pies, Ingo - 2021
Dieser Beitrag formuliert aus der wirtschaftsethischen Perspektive des ordonomischen Forschungsprogramms einige Denkanstöße, die dazu beitragen sollen, ein differenzierte(re)s Moralurteil über 'Kapitalismus' zu entwickeln: Kapitalismus setzt Wettbewerbsanreize ein, um Produktionseffizienz und...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012502947
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Privatization in Austria: Some theoretical reasons and performance measures
Schneider, Friedrich; Belke, Ansgar - 2004
The issues of privatization (and sometimes deregulation) have been reviewed in a large literature on the various … aspects of privatization, that has emphasized the potential efficiency gains. Hence, we provide some theoretical reasoning why … privatization is useful as well as profitable for an economy and empirically present the extent of privatization in Austria and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294495
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Privatization and liberalization in vertically linked markets
Stähler, Frank; Traub, Stefan - 2009
liberalization and their privatization which can be complete or partial such that upstream production is still run by an SOE. We show … in most cases even if a holdup problem exists. For any vertically separated structure we find that privatization through … multi-product firms welfare dominates privatization through single-product firms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298993