In diesem Papier beschäftigen wir uns mit den Möglichkeiten einer globalen Umweltpolitik, die eine Minderung der CO2-Emissionen zum Ziel hat. Wir konzentrieren uns hierbei auf die im Rahmen des joint-implementation- Ansatzes in die Diskussion eingebrachten Vorschläge und diskutieren diese am...

The protection of the global environment is impeded by multilateral externalities which the international community attempts to bring under control by entering into international agreements. International agreements, however, can suffer from non-compliance and free-riding behaviour by sovereign...

This paper discusses environmental policies which aim at a sustainable use of domestic resources which are mobile. It assumes that one country introduces such a policy but the other country does not. If a resource is mobile, strict domestic environmental policies may increase the resource...

This paper discusses unilateral sustainability policies for tradable resources in closed and open economies. The effects of sustainability policies are modelled in an intertemporal, competitive framework by applying different sustainability rules which are introduced unilaterally in the domestic...

This paper discusses environmental policies in response to foreign direct investment (FDI) in a symmetrie two-country setting, where firms' behavior affects government policy decisions. We show that two alternative equilibria with FDI are possible: (i) one with unilateral FDI, where one firm is...

This paper examines how trade liberalization affects the innovation incentives of firms, and what this implies for industry productivity and social welfare. For this purpose we develop a reciprocal dumping model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and endogenous R&D. We identify two...

This paper studies why multinational firms often share ownership of a foreign affiliate with a local partner even in the absence of government restrictions on ownership. We show that shared ownership may arise, if (i) the partner owns assets that are potentially important for the investment...

In diesem Beitrag untersuchen wir die Wirkung einer veränderten Regelung für Sozialhilfe auf das Arbeitsangebot. Die unterstellte Neuregelung zeichnet sich dadurch aus, daß der implizite Steuersatz für das Arbeitseinkommen von Transferempfängern von derzeit 100 vH auf einen niedrigeren Wert...