Tradable Permits – a Market-Based Allocation System for the Environment. Tradable Permits and Other Environmental Policy Instruments – Killing one Bird with two Stones. Tradable Permits – Ten Key Design Issues. Tradable Permits with Imperfect Monitoring. Emissions Trading with Greenhouse...

Durch das Scheitern der dritten WTO-Ministerkonferenz in Seattle wurde der Beginn einer neuen Verhandlungsrunde zur Liberalisierung des Welthandelssystems vorerst auf unbestimmte Zeit verschoben. Zum Streit um Inhalt und Umfang der neuen Verhandlungsrunde zwischen der EU und den USA kommt hinzu,...

The paper aims at a conceptual contribution to the normative economic analysis of rural de-velopment (RD) policies. RD is regarded as a problem of interaction between individuals; (lacking) structural change or the (missing) integration of externalities are therefore recon-structed as...

This paper draws on institutional and evolutionary economics and contributes to an approach to environmental policy which diverges from mainstream prescriptions. The 'socio-technical system' is the core concept: this is a complex made of co-evolving institutions, technologies, markets and actors...