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Sustainability in a Multiproduct and Multiple Agent Contestable Market.

Iehlé, Vincent - Université Paris-Dauphine

We prove that a natural monopoly can set subsidy free pricing and sustainable pricing schedules in general economic environment. The setting is a multiproduct and multiple agent contestable market where demands are elastic and where rivals can enter the sub-markets composed by a set of the...

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The Environmental Gains of Remanufacturing: Evidence from the Computer and Mobile Industry

Quariguasi Frota Neto, J.; Bloemhof-Ruwaard, J.M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2009

Remanufacturing has long been perceived as an environmentally-friendly initiative. The question of how remanufacturing moderates the relation between environmental impact and economic returns is still unanswered, however. In this paper, we focus our attention on the electronics industry. In...

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Hungary: The Janus-faced Success Story

Csaba, Laszlo - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009

This paper offers a broad overview of the Hungarian development strategy over the past two decades. Combining historical and functional analysis, some major strengths and weaknesses are identified, with special emphasis on the country.s open-door policies and the role played by the European...

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Sustainability and its relation to efficiency under uncertainty

Krysiak, Frank - In: Economic Theory 41 (2009) 2, pp. 297-315

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Estimating the effects of fiscal policy under the budget constraint.

Claeys, Peter - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2007

I reconsider the short-term effects of fiscal policy when both government spending and taxes are allowed to respond to the level of public debt. I embed the long-term government budget constraint in a VAR, and apply this common trends model to US quarterly data. The results overturn some widely...

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THE ANT, THE GRASSHOPPER OR SCHRÖDINGER'S CAT: AN EXPLORATION OF CONCEPTS OF SUSTAINABILITY

GRINDE, JOHN; KHARE, ANSHUMAN - In: Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and … 10 (2008) 02, pp. 115-141

sustainability, where it may lead and how we must redesign human systems to adapt to a sustainable world. The authors believe holism …

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AN INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT APPROACH TO DESIGNING SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS

HASSAN, OSAMA A. B. - In: Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and … 08 (2006) 02, pp. 223-251

This article advances building sustainability theory by relating quality and environmental methodologies to building … construction. The sustainability criteria and indicators are first defined and then linked to the integration problem. For … designing for sustainability, widely-used methodologies, such as total quality management (TQM), life cycle analysis (LCA), life …

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SUSTAINABILITY OF COOPERATION OVERTIME IN LINEAR-QUADRATIC DIFFERENTIAL GAMES

JØRGENSEN, STEFFEN; MARTÍN-HERRÁN, GUIOMAR; ZACCOUR, … - In: International Game Theory Review (IGTR) 07 (2005) 04, pp. 395-406

-quadratic differential games. Conditions ensuring their satisfaction are derived and a link between sustainability of cooperation and fair …

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Structural Change in EU Agriculture and the Supply of Social Attributes

Hill, Berkeley; Blandford, David - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2005

The social attributes that agriculture is assumed to provide in its multifunctional role are analysed. Links with structural characteristics are examined and questions raised on the extent to which these are dependent on sustaining the present structure of EU agriculture. The nature of an...

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Intervening to Achieve Co-Operative Ecosystem Management: Towards an Agent Based Model

Doran, Jim - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 4 (2001) 2, pp. 4-4

We propose an advanced agent-based modelling approach to ecosystem management, informed and motivated by consideration of the Fraser River watershed and its management problems. Agent-based modelling is introduced, and a three-stage computer-based research programme is formulated, the focus of...

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