Economic restructuring in Eastern Europe and acid rain abatement strategies

Restructuring of Central and Eastern Europe

On Democratisation and Economic Conditions in Eastern Europe

The paper empirically investigates whether people’s attitude towards the progress in political transformation in Eastern Europe are influenced by economic factors. Thereby it addresses the question of independence between economic and political system. Using a large panel data set, containing about 68000 observations on individuals from 19 countries over 6 years, this question is analysed in th...

Between Apprehension and Support: Social Dialogue, Democracy, and Industrial Restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe

This article explores the attitudes of trade union organizations to restructuring and privatization of their enterprises to strategic foreign investors in Central and Eastern Europe’s biggest steel producers: Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, and Slovakia. Contra advocates of insulating technocratic decision-makers from social partners, this article argues that higher quality of democracy and co...

Emissions Trading, Electricity Industry Restructuring, and Investment in Pollution Abatement

This paper investigates the relationship between economic regulation and …rms’response to the incentives created by an emissions trading program. The NOx State Implementation Plan (SIP) Call Rule was designed to facilitate cost e¤ective reductions of nitrogen oxides emissions from large stationary sources (primarily electricity generators) in 19 eastern states. I estimate a discrete choice mode...

Emissions Trading, Electricity Restructuring, and Investment in Pollution Abatement

When the US federal government first began regulating major sources of air pollution in the 1960s, the conventional approach to meeting air quality standards involved establishing maximum emissions rates or technology based standards for regulated stationary sources. However, economists have long maintained that an emissions permit market could more efficiently coordinate pollution abatement ac...