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Endogenous environmental policy when pollution is transboundary
Fünfgeld, Joachim; Schulze, Günther G. - 2011
We analyze the formation of environmental policy to regulate transboundary pollution if governments are self-interested. In a common agency framework, we portray the environmental policy calculus of two political supportmaximizing governments that are in a situation of strategic interaction with...
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Domestic inefficiencies caused by transboundary pollution problems when there is no international coordination of environmental policies
Hoel, Michael - 2001
In most models of transboundary pollution, lack of international cooperation does not cause any inefficiency within each country. The paper shows that this result is only valid in the hypothetical case of no international trade. With international trade, we get a domestic inefficiency in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284303
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Endogenous environmental policy when pollution is transboundary
Fünfgelt, Joachim; Schulze, Günther G. - 2011
We analyze the formation of environmental policy to regulate transboundary pollution if governments are self-interested. In a common agency framework, we portray the environmental policy calculus of two political supportmaximizing governments that are in a situation of strategic interaction with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286619
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How to Turn an Industry Green: Taxes versus Subsidies
Dröge, Susanne; Schröder, Philipp J. H. - 2003
Environmental policies frequently target the ratio of dirty to green output within the same industry. To achieve such targets the green sector may be subsidised or the dirty sector be taxed. This paper shows that in a monopolistic competition setting the two policy instruments have different...
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How do strong social ties shape youth migration trajectories (using data from the Russian on-line social network www.vk.com)
Zamyatina, Nadezhda; Yashunsky, Alexey - 2013
migrations between cities shows us that the force of strong ties is sometimes greater than the force of a distance or of the … agglomeration effect: some very distant and small cities are tied closely by migrations flows. We tend to explain the high level of … migrations flows moved to the Russian capital and to the region centers. Yet, excluding such flows, we can see the concentration …
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Forming of the new ethnic image of St.Petersburg
Krasnov, Anton; Zhitin, Dmitriy - 2015
Ethnic and migration processes in Russia after the collapse of The Soviet Union have significantly changed the ethnic composition of major Russian cities. On the one hand, we see continuing of assimilation of most national communities which historically lived in the largest Russian cities...
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Gender Discrimination in Property Rights
Casari, Marco; Lisciandra, Maurizio - 2014
Starting from the medieval period, women in the Italian Alps experienced a progressive erosion in property rights over the commons. We collected documents about the evolution of inheritance regulations on collective land issued by hundreds of peasant communities over a period of six centuries...
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Reurbanisierung im Kontext einer neuen Unübersichtlichkeit regionaler Entwicklungsmuster: Das Beispiel der Stadtregion Stuttgart
Schmitz-Veltin, Ansgar - In: Reurbanisierung in baden-württembergischen Stadtregionen, (pp. 77-95). 2015
For decades suburbanization was the most significant trend in intraregional migration in Germany. But during the past few years city centres have gained net immigration from urban hinterlands. This development is being discussed as re-urbanization. Using the example of Stuttgart, the paper...
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Ageing, the socioeconomic burden, labour market and migration. The Chinese case in an international perspective
Bruni, Michele - 2018
China still lags behind Europe along the path of the demographic transition and therefore is still much younger. However, due to the speed with which the fertility rate dropped and life expectancy increased, China ageing process will proceed at a very fast space and around the middle of the...
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Doświadczenie przemocy w trakcie deportacji: Przypadek Meksykanów „wydalonych” ze Stanów Zjednoczonych Ameryki
Radziwinowiczówna, Agnieszka - 2016
According to Saskia Sassen (2012), contemporary borders are not erected against other sovereigns, but against nonstate transnational actors, migrants among them. The autonomy of migration of the latter is an act of resistance against the border regimes. Border and immigration controls aim at...
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