Insurance industry participates in the United Nations December 2015 climate conference in Paris and offers products that are regarded as essential to financial resilience in the face of climate disaster risk. In China, however, the government traditionally has played the central role in...

Der 5. Sachstandsbericht des Weltklimarates (IPCC) macht unmissverständlich klar: Inakzeptable Klimafolgen, die sich jenseits der 2°C-Leitplanke häufen dürften, können nur vermieden werden, wenn der weitere Anstieg der Treibhausgaskonzentration so bald wie möglich gestoppt wird. Der WBGU...

The aim of the present study is to shed some light on the factors affecting Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure (PACE) in the context of a transition economy such as Romania, in contrast to the existing literature which mostly focuses on developed economies. Specifically, we use survey...

The transition process in Central and Eastern Europe was associated with growing environmental awareness. This paper analyses the determinants of Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure (PACE) at plant level in the case of Romania using survey data and a Multilevel Regression Model (MRM)....

Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Transformation ehemals zentralverwaltungswirtschaftlich organisierter Länder aus Mittel- und Osteuropa in marktwirtschaftlich organisierte Volkswirtschaften. Neben dem Ziel der Integration in das Wirtschaftsgeschehen der Europäischen Union...

The importance of new firm creation in the post-Communist economies of East Central Europe (ECE) has been subject to extensive research. This paper focuses on an area of entrepreneurship which has received relatively little attention in the transition economy context but which is of particular...