Essays about: "environmental endowment"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words environmental endowment.
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1. Public goods games for collective agri-environmental contracts design
University essay from SLU/Dept. of EconomicsAbstract : This thesis conducts a structured literature review of public goods games (PGG) experiments to analyze the differences between laboratory and field studies and to understand whether farmers cooperate more or less than standard PGG subjects. In addition, novel data on public goods games conducted on European farmers from Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, and Poland are analyzed to understand the effect of heterogeneous starting endowments on cooperation. READ MORE
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2. To what extent are Hungarian farmers willing to cooperate on agri-environmental schemes? : experimental evidence from a public goods game
University essay from SLU/Dept. of EconomicsAbstract : European Union agri-environmental measures fail to deliver expected benefits despite playing a central role in mitigating the negative effects of agriculture on biodiversity and the environment. Implementing agri-environmental contracts following a landscape-scale rather than an individual�farm level approach could potentially contribute to improving their environmental performance. READ MORE
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3. Servitized industrial machinery as a new real asset for institutional investors
University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)Abstract : The increased penetration of servitization is an ongoing trend within the industrial machinery space. This typically means that industrial machinery manufactures themselves retain ownership of the machinery they manufacture whilst also taking over maintenance operations. Essentially, offering customers a netresult. READ MORE
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4. Human capital, Institutional Environment and Social Entrepreneurship - A multilevel analysis of determinants for social entrepreneurship
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : European policymakers are increasingly interested in encouraging and supporting social entrepreneurship. Addressing the goal, this thesis analyses the relationship between human capital and an individual’s propensity for social entrepreneurship in European countries. READ MORE
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5. Environmental Regulations and Pollution Havens. An Empirical Study of the Most Polluting Industries.
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : Environmental concerns in the last decades have given rise to environmental regulations, especially in high-income countries. The pollution haven hypothesis argues that differences in environmental regulations unintentionally give the least regulated countries a comparative advantage in the production of pollution intensive goods, turning them into pollution havens. READ MORE
