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The European Union greenhouse gas emissions tradding scheme

abilities and prospects of a climate governance instrument

The European Union (EU) action against climate change began in the early 1980s, soon becoming a priority and a fundamental axis of its environmental policy. As a participating actor in world climate governance, the EU has been at the forefront of the world struggle against ...

Market structure and equilibrium

In his book "Marktform und Gleichgewicht", published initially in 1934, Heinrich von Stackelberg presented his groundbreaking leadership model of firm competition. In a work of great originality and richness, he described and analyzed a market situation in which the leader firm moves first and the ...

European Social Security Law

This is the completely revised and updated fifth edition of this authoritative handbook, which is used in many courses on European social security and of which already several translations have been made in other languages. In the past decades the coordination and equal treatment provisions ...

Group litigation in european competition Law

a Law and economics perspective

This book makes a valuable contribution to the current discussion regarding the private enforcement of competition law, particularly through the use of group litigation. Forms of group litigation are debated not only at the European level, but in countries worldwide. Policy makers, practitioners and academics ...

Behavioural economics in consumer policy

the economic analysis of standard terms in consumer contracts revisited

One of the main questions pertaining to policy interventions in consumer policy nowadays is: what to do with behavioural insights? It is that question that this research aims to answer, presenting a systematic research method for assessing policy questions from an economic and a behavioural ...

Collective action and fundamental freedoms in Europe

striking the balance

Eds. Edoardo Ales, Tonia Novitz. Recent cases decided by the European Court of Justice have raised crucial issues regarding the scope for collective action in Europe. In this context, this collection of essays investigates treatment of the right to strike in seven Member States of ...

Belgian employment Law

Belgian employment law is a rather complex and atypical matter. Unlike the majority of the other European countries, Belgium distinguishes between blue-collar and white-collar workers. Furthermore it is easier to fire an employee in Belgium than in most EU-Member States. An employer does not need ...

Conflict of Laws and Laws of conflict in Europe and beyond

patterns of supranational and transnational juridification

Ed. Rainer Nickel. This book is based on the proceedings from a conference at the European University Institute in Florence. It deals with new approaches to supra- and transnational law generating structures. These new approaches, namely Christian Joerges# theoretical concept based upon the conflict of ...

Fact-finding in civil litigation

a comparative perspective

In civil cases, the facts of the case are often decisive. This book provides a comparative analysis of the process of fact-finding in the litigation process. It offers theoretical insights on the distinctive features of the fact-finding arrangements in civil cases in Austria, the Netherlands ...

Financial supervision in a comparative perspective

This book provides an overview of the role of the independent administrative authorities assigned to the oversight of financial markets, by outlining both the historic and economic background, the warp and the weft of the European system, and where these authorities have emerged and now ...

The recast of the european works Council Directive

Eds. Filip Dorssemont, Thomas Blanke. On 16 May 2009, the EC Directive 2009/38 (Recast Directive) was published in the Official Journal. With effect from 6 June 2011, the EC Directive 94/45 on the establishment of a European Works Council or a procedure in ...

Why care?

children's rights and child poverty

Eds. Wouter Vandenhole, Jan Vranken, Katrien De Boyser. Over the past decade, EU and national policy-makers alike have paid more attention to childhood poverty and children#s rights. Whether this has led to better policies, and whether these policies have in turn resulted in less ...

The Constitution of Japan

a contextual analysis

Japan boasts the second largest economy in the world and almost two thousand years of history. Yet, its first modern constitution, the Meiji Constitution, was not enacted until comparatively recently (1889). Since then, following World War II, Japan adopted its current Constitution, the Japanese Constitution ...

The Constitution of Finland

a contextual analysis

This book deals with the living Constitution of Finland, with an emphasis on constitutional history, culture, and practice. 'Culture' here refers to the cognitive long-term social or mental structure which makes it possible for politicians, civil servants, judges, and lawyers to grasp the constitutional environment ...

Rulers and ruled in frontier Catalonia, 880-1010

pathways of power

A frontier both between Christianity and Islam and between Francia and the Iberian Peninsula, the region that later became Catalonia was at the heart of the demographic and cultural expansion of the Carolingian empire between the ninth and twelfth centuries. Through the use of charters ...

Reputation management

the key to successful public relations and corporate communication

With new chapters and updated examples throughout, the second edition of "Reputation Management" is a how-to guide for professionals and students in public relations and corporate communication. It rests on the premise that reputation can be measured, monitored, and managed. Organized by corporate communication units ...

Diccionario de economía social

Coord. Inmaculada Carrasco Monteagudo. La obra DICCIONARIO DE ECONOMÍA Y EMPRESA está compuesta por nueve volúmenes referidos a los campos más importantes de la economía y de la administración de empresas (contabilidad, econometría, economía aplicada, economía pública, economía social, estadística, finanzas, organización de empresas, pensamiento ...

Blogs y empresas

tu marca en la blogosfera

La convivencia entre blogs y empresas es posible; las relaciones entre bloggers y departamentos de marketing también lo son. Simplemente hay que dedicar un tiempo a conocer el medio y las personas que lo habitan. Este libro te guiará por las buenas prácticas necesarias para ...

Estrategias de competitividad, mercados de trabajo y reforma laboral 2010

convergencias y divergencias

La reforma laboral 2010 pretende contener la sangría de empleos y propiciar un «nuevo modelo productivo», pues el problema de desempleo no sólo se vincula a los desajustes del modelo español de relaciones laborales sino también a nuestro deficiente modo de crecimiento. El debate actual ...

Modelling nonlinear economic time series

This book contains an extensive up-to-date overview of nonlinear time series models and their application to modelling economic relationships. It considers nonlinear models in stationary and nonstationary frameworks, and both parametric and nonparametric models are discussed. The book contains examples of nonlinear models in economic ...