Der Klimawandel zählt zu den größten Herausforderungen der Automobilindustrie. Obgleich eine Fülle technologischer Ansätze vorhanden sind, erreicht die europäische Automobilindustrie nicht ihre selbstgesteckten Ziele zur Verringerung der CO2-Emissionen. Ein wichtiger Grund hierfür ist die...

This paper estimates the impact of trade between Romania and EU (export and imports) on sustainable development (defined through the following ratios: GDP growth and employment level) using dynamic forecasting and vector auto-regression (VAR) methods. Logistic regression forecasts the evolution...

In the last decades, substantial changes have occurred regarding what scientists consider the limits of habitable environmental conditions. For every extreme environmental condition investigated, a variety of microorganisms have shown that not only can they tolerate these conditions, but that...

This document considers an economy with many regions and two engines of growth: horizontal R&D, which increases the number of polluting product lines; and vertical R&D, which improves productivity in these lines. Pollution in any region decreases welfare in all regions. Any group of regions can...

This paper extends an economic geography model by tariffs to analyze their impact on welfare and sustainability of agglomerations. Policies with and without cooperation are compared, with the goal of maximizing aggregated welfare in the former and regional welfare in the latter case. The main...

The paper discusses various possible approaches to turnover taxation in cyberspace. It shows that the main challenge of the new economy is to effectively cope with B2C international trade in digital online goods and services. However, most approaches to turnover taxation discussed in the...

Aus ökonomisch-ökologischer Sicht sollte die steuerliche Belastung eines Schadstoffes nicht nur fühlbar, sondern auch gleichmäßig sein. Deshalb sollte die Höhe der Steuer, die auf einer Tonne CO2 lastet, unabhängig von dem Energieträger sein, der das CO2 freisetzt. In Deutschland kann...