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Ecological fiscal transfers in Europe : evidence-based design options of a transnational scheme
Droste, N.; Ring, I.; Santos, R.; Kettunen, M. - 2016
Ecological Fiscal Transfers (EFT) have recently gained attention as a promising instrument to provide incentives for nature conservation addressing public authorities. In parallel, both the EU and different European countries are exploring new mechanisms to mobilise funding to support...
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An empirical examination of repeated auctions for biodiversity conservation contracts
Groth, Markus - 2008
The European Union's Council Regulation on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development has introduced auctioning as a new instrument for granting agri-environmental payments and awarding conservation contracts for the recent multi-annual budgetary plan....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265167
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A review of the German mandatory deposit for one-way drinks packaging and drinks packaging taxes in Europe
Groth, Markus - 2008
The mandatory deposit for one-way drinks packaging, embodied in the German Packaging Ordinance of 1991, entered into force in January 2003, after the condition for its implementation was given by the fall of the market share of reusable drinks packaging under 72% in 1997. In this context the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265182
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The transferability and performance of payment-by-results biodiversity conservation procurement auctions : empirical evidence from northernmost Germany
Groth, Markus - 2009
Managed grasslands contribute in a number of ways to the biodiversity of European agricultural landscapes and provide a wide range of ecosystem services that are also of socio-economic value. Against the background of a rapid biodiversity loss in agricultural landscapes, increasing attention is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003802978
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Verhandelter Netzzugang
Engel, Christoph - 2002
In some industries, monopoly is natural. One provider can serve the relevant demand cheaper than two or more firms. If … the monopoly is not contestable, i.e. not controlled by a credible threat of entry, regulation is necessary. The essential … downstream markets are not themselves natural monopolies. The holder of the monopoly is also himself active on one of these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324017
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Verhandelter Netzzugang
Engel, Christoph - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011582896
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Offsetting versus mitigation activities to reduce CO2 emissions: A theoretical and empirical analysis for the US and Germany
Lange, Andreas; Ziegler, Andreas - 2012
This paper studies the voluntary provision of public goods that is partially driven by a desire to offset for individual polluting activities. We first extend existing theory and show that offsets allow a reduction in effective environmental pollution levels while not necessarily extending the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294375
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Offsetting versus Mitigation Activities to Reduce CO2 Emissions: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis for the U.S. and Germany
Lange, Andreas; Ziegler, Andreas - 2012
This paper studies the voluntary provision of public goods that is partially driven by a desire to offset for individual polluting activities. We first extend existing theory and show that offsets allow a reduction in effective environmental pollution levels while not necessarily extending the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753225
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Offsetting versus mitigation activities to reduce CO 2 emissions : a theoretical and empirical analysis for the US and Germany
Lange, Andreas; Ziegler, Andreas - 2012
This paper studies the voluntary provision of public goods that is partially driven by a desire to offset for individual polluting activities. We first extend existing theory and show that offsets allow a reduction in effective environmental pollution levels while not necessarily extending the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009552907
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Fiscal Federalism and Risk Sharing in Germany : The Role of Size Differences
Konrad, Kai A.; Seitz, Helmut - 2011
We study the effect of size differences for an optimal risk sharing system of intergovernmental transfers in Germany. The German fiscal transfer system should account for the fact that an optimal insurance mechanism has the property that smaller states contribute a smaller share of their tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014178435