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This book explores the environmental competitiveness of 133 countries around the world, presenting an index evaluation system to facilitate a comparative analysis of environmental competitiveness on a global scale. This is a new way to measure competitiveness in the light of the contradiction...
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This paper uses cross-state and cross-regional time series to estimate the effect of the variation in shares of alcohol beverage types on traffic fatalities in young people, with particular emphasis on consumption of beer versus spirits, or "hard liquor". Depending on the specification,...
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Agricultural policy interests of France and Germany - similarities and divergences under changing conditions. The aim of this contribution is to examine how the French and the German positions on agricultural policy have developed since the foundation of the EEC and what the driving forces were...
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Based on an analysis of selected determinants for the competitiveness and of strategies of the food industries the contribution illustrates similarities and major differences between the food industries of these two countries. It is shown that in both countries measures are necessary to further...
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Based upon the structure-conduct-performance approach the present paper analyses determinants of price-cost-margins over the business cycle for food industries in Germany, the USA as well as the Netherlands. Controlling for market structure variables, cyclical fluctuations in profitability are...
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A considerable body of research on farmers' behaviour is based on the surveys regarding their behavioural intentions. The theory of planned behaviour states that while the formation of intentions normally precedes behaviour, several factors affect the realisation of the intended behaviour....
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. Gegenstand dieses Beitrages ist ein Vergleich der unterschiedlichen Methoden zur Aggregation von Importzöllen. Zunächst erfolgt …
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How did Britain sustain faster rates of economic growth than comparable European countries, such as France, during the Industrial Revolution? We argue that Britain possessed an important but underappreciated innovation advantage: British inventors worked in technologies that were more central...
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Verkauf aggregierter Marktdaten. Im Vergleich zu anderen Wirtschaftsbereichen, die von Vergleichsportalen abgedeckt werden … price comparison tools. It also looks at the commission structure and the significance of these tools for the broadband … market and the importance of individual broadband operators for the respective comparison websites. It concludes with a …
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We compare the labour market response to region-specific shocks in Europe and the US and to national shocks in Europe and investigate changes over time. We employ a multi-level factor model to decompose regional labour market variables and then estimate the dynamic response of the employment...
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