Der vermehrte Anbau von Agrartreibstoffen, der auch in Kolumbien forciert wird, hat unter anderem Auswirkungen auf die kolumbianische Landwirtschaft und die ländliche Bevölke-rung. Die Diplomarbeit untersucht, ob sich unter dem bestehenden internationalen Agrarsys-tem, der Agrarsituation in...

The Chinese state undertakes large scale investments in a number of countries under the auspices of economic cooperation related investment (ECI). While there are suggestions that it is an extension of China‟s soft power aimed at facilitating Chinese FDI in those countries, often for access to...

Does natural resource abundance decrease Latin American Foreign Direct Investment? This paper studies the effects of natural resource abundance on foreign direct investment (FDI), by focusing on inequality as the channel that links these two variables. Two arguments in the literature inspire...

Many Americans are getting sick of the way things have become and the way things are, from the government to the quality of food we put into our bodies. We are upon a new frontier, people are changing the way they live and consume. The days of quantity over quality are fading. Many consumers are...

The oil industry is the richest and most influential industry in the world. The industry has moved the fates of nations. Oil is required to fight wars and exert power, and the restriction of this energy source is paramount to the restriction of movement, control, and in the end, power....

This dissertation examines whether the vicious circle theory applies in three developing countries characterized by high population growth. According to the vicious circle theory, natural resource scarcity coupled with poverty leads to population growth via positive effects on fertility...

Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Investition in neue, emissionsärmere Technologien, bei dem der Entscheider eine große, langfristige Investition tätigt und den dafür optimalen Zeitpunkt wählt. Dabei wird sowohl der gesamtwirtschaftliche Kontext, also die effiziente Allokation der neuen...

This dissertation consists of two theoretical papers on market-based environmental policy. The first paper exploits the correlation between the environmental performance of firms and their economic performance to show that financial markets can be used to help enforce environmental policy and to...

What are the conclusions that we have to draw from the foregoing discussion? We must conclude that the prevailing practice of evaluating benefits and costs in terms of present costs and prices is not only likely to lead to an under-statement of actual costs, but also may lead to gross...

In the first chapter of this dissertation, I estimate the long-run price elasticity of supply of renewable electricity generating capacity using the variation in state mandates for renewable electricity production. These mandates require electricity providers to purchase a predetermined fraction...