On 1 May 2004, ten countries became members of the European Union. The addition of Cyprus, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland and Slovenia brings the total number of Member States to 25. Although the EU has successfully integrated new countries on...

The European Union played a pivotal role in the launch of the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM), which was developed and negotiated with the participation of a wide range of stakeholders from more than 140 countries. It was adopted by the United Nations Environment...

Der Beitrag untersucht, wie es um den industriellen Kern des Chemiestandorts Schkopau in Sachsen-Anhalt, der eng mit dem Namen Buna verbunden ist, mehr als ein Vierteljahrhundert nach der Herstellung der Deutschen Einheit bestellt ist. Anders als in Bitterfeld-Wolfen, wo eine Privatisierung der...

The traditional approach to measuring allocative efficiency is based on input prices, which are rarely known at the firm level. This paper proposes a new approach to measure allocative efficiency which is based on the output-oriented distance to the frontier in a profit – technical efficiency...