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Environmental policy and industrial competitiveness: The pollution haven hypothesis reconsidered
Bommer, Rolf - 1995
The Pollution-Haven Hypothesis suggests that tight environmental standards reduce domestic producers' competitiveness and give rise to their relocating to countries with more lenient standards. This paper questions that relocation is always caused by reduced competitiveness at home. By using a...
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Die Zukunft der Industrie in Deutschland und Europa
2013
Nicht zuletzt die Folgen der globalen Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise haben vielen, welche die Industrie für ein …: Wie haben sich die europäische und speziell die deutsche Industrie im globalen Wettbewerb mit anderen Industrieländern und … Staaten Europas sein? In welchem Maße profitieren unsere europäischen Nachbarn von der Industrie Deutschlands? Braucht …
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ASEAN-China Free Trade Area and the Competitiveness of Local Industries: A Case Study of Major Industries in the Lao People's Democratic Republic
Leebouapao, Leebeer; Insisienmay, Sthabandith; … - 2012
This paper provides an evaluation of the impact of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement (ACFTA) on industries in the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). In general, the paper finds that price competitiveness in the three industries under review falls substantially if tariffs are...
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Economic Integration and Manufacturing Location in EU Accession Countries
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Traistaru, Iulia - 2003
This paper investigates patterns of manufacturing location in the context of increased economic integration in Central and East European countries. Using regional data for the period 1990-1999, we identify and compare patterns and determinants of manufacturing location in five European Union...
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Standortverlagerungen in der ostdeutschen Industrie
Eickelpasch, Alexander; Pfeiffer, Ingo - In: DIW Wochenbericht 73 (2006) 14, pp. 181-185
Die ostdeutsche Industrie ist seit Längerem im Aufwind: Die Produktion wächst stärker als in den alten Ländern, und die …
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Estimating the option value of exercising risk-taking behavior with the hedonic market approach
Borsky, Stefan; Raschky, Paul A. - 2008
Within the last decades an increasing number of people practice risky sports in their leisure time. Although there exists a vast number of economic literature on risk-taking behavior, an estimation of the individual willingness to pay (WTP) for the option to exercise risk-taking is missing....
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Outlier Aversion in Evaluating Performance : Evidence from Figure Skating
Lee, Jungmin - 2004
The quality of subjective performance evaluation is dependent on the incentive structures faced by evaluators, in particular on how they are monitored and themselves evaluated. Figure skating competitions provide a unique opportunity to study subjective evaluation. This paper develops and tests...
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Product variety and price strategy in the ski manufacturing industry
Corrocher, Nicoletta; Guerzoni, Marco - 2008
The present paper aims at examining the role of variety in the ski manufacturing industry and its relevance in firms' price setting strategies. In particular, it intends to investigate and empirically test two hypotheses concerning the relation between variety and prices. The first concerns the...
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Blood Money: Incentives for Violence in NHL Hockey
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Vorell, Matthias - 2008
The level of violence in the National Hockey League (NHL) reached its highest point in 1987 and has reduced somewhat since then, although to levels much larger than before the first team expansions in 1967. Using publicly available information from several databases 1996-2007, the incentives for...
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Die Wahrnehmung der Winter-Destination Tirol der Zielgruppe 'junge Leute' in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Schmidt, Romy - 2012
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