Investment attitude refers to the way managements of firms value attributes of investment proposals and weigh them in their final appraisal. It seems that among firms in the Netherlands an investment attitude exists that hinders the implementation of energy conservation projects. Using paired...

Preventive environmental policy may be aimed at stimulating structural change in the consumption of materials. By reducing the resource input of production, less emissions and wastes will occur that have a negative impact on the natural environment. Several authors note that structural change in...

Simulatie-experimenten met een prototype van een model dat voor Nederland op consistente wijze alle arbeidsmarktstromen op macro-niveau in beeld brengt, laten zien dat een arbeidsparticipatiebeleid weinig effectief is indien dat beleid zich uitsluitend op het arbeids-aanbod richt. Een...

In this paper an endogenous growth model is analyzed which takes account of environmental deterioration and abatement. The environment plays a role both in production and welfare. It is common practice to solve growth models by looking at a balanced growth solution, which is often associated...

Connectivity and isolation problems have become a source of policy interest in all European countries, largely as a result of the goal of the completion of the internal market. Against this background, the present paper aims to analyze the future position of the Aegean passenger shipping system....

This paper has been presented at the Journal of Applied Econometrics International Conference on the Micro-Econometrics of Dynamic Decision Making, in Tilburg, May 1994. We would like to thank John Rust, Arie Kapteyn and other participants at this conference for their helpful comments. This...

Within maritime logistics the containerised trade market is growing rapidly with the uprising of the Far East. European container port competition among the ports in the Le Havre-Hamburg range is fierce as they are threatened by a shortage of terminal capacity. The port of Amsterdam identified...