Using a representative survey of German university students, we confirm that proclaimed support for environment protection policies depends on socio-cultural factors and political ideology. Unlike most related studies for other countries, we find that the environmental policy stance of German...

Using a representative survey of German university students, we confirm that proclaimed support for environment protection policies depends on socio-cultural factors and political ideology. Unlike most related studies for other countries, we find that the environmental policy stance of German...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate environmental policy making from a positive point of view. Unlike traditional normative economic policy analyis, this paper is thus not concerned with advancing policy recommendations for the benefit of the policy makers. Jts objective is rather to...

In this paper we present a model of endogenous trade-policy formation which captures crucial aspects of the Japanese commercial and political culture. We analyze the influence of the portrayed culturel traits and show that cultural idiosyncrasies are important determinants of trade policy...