environment only because its degradation affects the industry's economic performance. The environment does not enter directly …

In general, a reduction in trade barriers will affect the environment by expanding the scale of economic activity, by …

International agreements to protect the global environment are typically difficult to reach. In principle they should … unstable due to the incentive to free-ride (enjoying the clean environment provided by others' emission reduction without …

inventions. We find that uncertainty about the profitability of investing in new inventions generates a basis for intermediation …

-stage game with uncertainty it is demonstrated that location is influenced by both flexibility and strategic concerns. We show … provided uncertainty and foreign direct investment costs are low. …

This Paper investigates the empirical relationship between uncertainty and investment dynamics. This is motivated by … uncertainty, as firms place a greater value on the option to wait. Using simulated data we show that this more cautious behaviour … can be detected as a smaller impact of sales growth on investment for firms facing higher uncertainty. Using a stock …

start from the premise that adaptation to uncertainty cannot be contracted upon in the worker - employer relationship … volatility of firm sales and employment; it does not, however, amplify aggregate uncertainty. This theory is therefore a good … candidate in explaining the rise in firm level uncertainty witnessed in the US over the past 30 years. It also provides valuable …

but the top decile were associated with increased firewood collections, contrary to the Poverty-Environment hypothesis; (b …

would in many cases improve the environment and reduce the depletion of natural resources and, in the worst cases, would add …

resource use and welfare. Autarky is likely to Pareto-dominate free trade in the long run when the environment is quite fragile …, and the result is reversed when the environment is quite resilient. Trade may cause an environmentally poor country to …