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Die Politiken der Gemeinschaft und die Berggebiete : Konferenzbeiträge ; Brüssel 17.-18. Oktober 2002
Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion … - 2003
2002 war das Internationale Jahr der Berge. In diesem Zusammenhang fanden in aller Welt zahlreiche Veranstaltungen statt, um das Verständnis für die Bedeutung der Bergwelt aus historischer, ökologischer, kultureller und wirtschaftlicher Sicht zu verbessern. Ferner sollte nach Wegen gesucht...
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Natural Disasters and Agriculture: Individual Risk Preferences towards Flooding
Sauer, Johannes - 2011
This study contributes to the understanding of behavioural responses to climate change induced extreme weatherevents. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method is outlined using the empirical case of agricultural...
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Pesticide Use and IPM Adoption: Does IPM Reduce Pesticide Use in the United States?
Maupin, Jason; Norton, George W. - 2010
In 2001, the United States General Accounting Office issued a report entitled “Management Improvements Needed to Further Promote Integrated Pest Management.” This report documents that overall agricultural pesticide usage increased from 1992 to 2000 while the use of the most toxic levels of...
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Establishing Ergonomics in Industrially Developing Countries
Stewart, K; Silverstein, B; Kiefer, M - 2008
countries of Viet Nam, Thailand, and Nicaragua have demonstrated that a one-time course is just the first step in a series of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436881
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Competitive success for foreign entrepreneurs in Nicaragua
Lombardo, Melissa B. - 2006
, many foreigners are making Nicaragua their new home. Investors are noticing increased opportunities to open up a business … venture whether it is a hotel, restaurant or other small business. As a country with a rather unstable past, Nicaragua is … changing rapidly. Owning a business in Nicaragua is becoming commonplace. How then do these establishments achieve success and …
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Designing a Photovoltaic System Hybrid for a Health Clinic In Camilo Ortega, Nicaragua
Holliman, Jeremy - 2010
implemented a variety of projects from slow sand filters to compressed earth blocks, and the Nicaragua team is in the process of …, the climate of Nicaragua, the availability of photovoltaic system components in-country, the expected loads that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009485665
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Empirical Essays on the Elasticity of Substitution, Technical Change, and Economic Growth
Pereira, Claudiney M - 2003
We estimate the elasticity of substitution using two different production functions. The usual Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) production function and a Box-Cox production function for Japan (1890-1991), UK (1870-1991), and US (1890-1992; 1929-2000). The main results are that we find the...
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Exploring production-theoretical insights for analyzing trade-offs between economic performance and environmental pressure at firm level
Van Meensel, Jef; Lauwers, Ludwig H.; Van Huylenbroeck, … - 2009
The objective of this paper is to construct a framework for analyzing trade-offs between economic performance and environmental pressure at firm level. Based on a literature review, partially conflicting economic-environmental trade-off paradigms are structured and five necessary conditions for...
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Oil prices and their effect on potential output
Estrada García, Angel; Hernández de Cos, Pablo - 2009
Despite the relevance in terms of policy, we still know little in Spain about where and by whom jobs are created, and how that is affecting the size distribution of firms. The main innovation of this paper is to use a rich database that overcomes the problems encountered by other firm-level...
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Price-cost mark-ups in the Spanish economy : a microeconomic perspective
Montero Montero, José Manuel; Urtasun Amann, Alberto - 2014
This paper explores the dynamics of price-cost mark-ups using firm-level data, paying particular attention to the crisis period 2008-2011. To this end, we apply the econometric framework developed by Klette (1999) to a comprehensive sample of Spanish non-financial corporations in order to...
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