This paper is now published in heavily revised form as:Beck, Lucas, Bernauer, Thomas, Kalbhenn, Anna. 2010. Environmental, Political, and Economic Determinants of Water Quality Monitoring in Europe. Water Resources Research 46, W11543, doi:10.1029/2009WR009065, 2010.Please read and cite the...

This paper is now published as:Bernauer, Thomas, Engels, Steacute;phanie, Kammerer, Daniel, and Seijas, Jazmin. 2007. Determinants of Green Innovation ndash; Ten Years after Porter's Win-Win Proposition: How to Study the Effects of Environmental Regulation? Politische Vierteljahresschrift 39:...

We develop a methodology for estimating the performance of international regulatory regimes in the context of transboundary surface waters. Our performance metric relies on assessments, over time, of actual performance, counterfactual performance, and optimal performance. The metric is of...

We argue that accounting for the behavior of firms and markets is important for understanding the extent and form and the effectiveness and efficiency of government regulation, particularly in economic policy. We examine the US banking sector and its regulation in the 1990s to gain insights on...

Recent instances of political backlash against global governance efforts as well as conventional wisdom suggest that there is a link between shifting authority from the domestic to the global level, on the one hand, and the legitimacy of global governance institutions as perceived by citizens...