Effective monitoring is essential for effective pollution control in national and international water systems. To what extent are countries' monitoring choices driven by environmental criteria, as they should be? And to what extent are they also influenced by other factors, such as political and...

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...

Hydro-political dependencies between countries are widely regarded as having important implications for international water cooperation and conflict. Quantitative ex-post empirical research on the subject so far uses very simple characterizations of international river geography to proxy for...

Bei der Kaufentscheidung eines neuen Produkts verlassen sich Konsumenten auf verschiedene Informationen, die ihnen helfen, das für sie ideale Produkt auszuwählen. Dies gilt insbesondere für die Automobilindustrie, da sich Fahrzeuge durch hohes Involvement, einen hohen Preis und einen...