Almost all international environmental agreements include a minimum participation rule. Under such a rule an agreement becomes legally binding if and only if a certain threshold in terms of membership or contribution is reached. We analyze a cartel game with open membership and heterogeneous...

This paper surveys the recent literature on the political economy of the formation of international environmental agreements. The survey covers theoretical modelling approaches and empirical studies including experimental work. Central to our survey is the question how the political process...

This paper discusses the political economy of climate protection. The objective is to come to a better understanding of why climate change has become one of the main topics at the domestic agenda in some countries, despite the fact that climate change can theoretically be considered as a topic...

The topic of the dissertation is the relationship between knowledge spillovers and firms' likelihood to co-operate on R&D and innovation activities. The analysis contains two parts: A review of relevant theoretical and empirical literature and an empirical part that analyses the relationship...

Dimensionen des I-K-W-Managements und Möglichkeiten der Optimierung dieses Konzepts. Unter der Prämisse einer grundlegenden Kohärenz von Information, Kommunikation und Wissen konnte demonstriert werden, wie die Netzwerkkonzepte diesen Integrationsversuch befruchten. So wurde im ersten Kapitel...