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Report on Global Environmental Competitiveness (2013)

Li, Jianping (contributor); Li, Minrong (contributor); … - 2014

This book explores the environmental competitiveness of 133 countries around the world, presenting an index evaluation … competitiveness in the light of the contradiction between world economic development and environmental protection. Global … issues of global environmental competitiveness.The work is presented here in three main parts beginning with the theory …

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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...

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Instruments of a strategic foreign economic policy: Study for the German Federal Foreign Office

Kamin, Katrin; Bernoth, Kerstin; Felbermayr, Gabriel; … - 2021

issues in the past, has outlived its usefulness. The transition to a more power-based order can be felt around the world … defensive and offensive strategies. The Kiel Institute for the World Economy, together with DIW Berlin and Bruegel, has produced …

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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 …

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Now or Never: Environmental Protection under Hyperbolic Discounting

Winkler, Ralph - 2009

consistent with real world observations, and thus provide a new explanation for weak environmental policy performance. …

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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...

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Unionisation structures, productivity, and firm performance

Braun, Sebastian - 2009

This paper studies how different unionisation structures affect firm productivity, firm performance, and consumer welfare in a monopolistic competition model with heterogeneous firms and free entry. While centralised bargaining induces tougher selection among hetero- geneous producers and thus...

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Airport privatization and international competition

Matsumura, Toshihiro; Matsushima, Noriaki - 2010

We provide a simple theoretical model to explain the mechanism whereby privatization of international airports can improve welfare. The model consists of a downstream (airline) duopoly with two inputs landings at two airports) and two types of consumers. The airline companies compete...

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Environmental regulation and technology transfers

Asano, Takao; Matsushima, Noriaki - 2012

This paper analyzes the situation in which a national government introduces environmental regulations. Within the framework of an international duopoly with environmental regulations, this paper shows that an environmental tax imposed by the government in the home country can induce a foreign...

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National Institutional Systems in Global Competition and the Inertia of German Labour Market Institutions

Ochel, Wolfgang - In: CESifo DICE Report 01 (2003) 4, pp. 33-38

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