Extended producer responsibility (EPR) is increasingly emphasized by manufacturing enterprises to improve eco-efficiency and to satisfy the growing environmental requirements expected in the market. This trend is salient for export-oriented manufacturers mandated to comply with environmental regulatory requirements before entry is granted for their products in the requisite overseas countries. ...

We measure the dollar risk exposure of U.S. industries by regressing stock portfolio returns on each industry against the returns on a broadly defined dollar index. The exposure estimates vary widely across different industries in both magnitudes and directions. We trace this large cross-sectional variation in dollar exposure to the industry’s average import and export activities. We find that ...

The article presents an analysis of the small business environment and development in Russia, discusses state programs for medium-sized businesses, a system measures to support businesses agricultural sector economy, role franchising as one areas development. main problems agribusiness, introduction innovations digital transformation production export-oriented entrepreneurship are identified. i...

The Brazilian state of Mato Grosso was a global deforestation hotspot in the early 2000s. Deforested land is used predominantly to produce meat for distal consumption either through cattle ranching or soya bean for livestock feed. Deforestation declined dramatically in the latter part of the decade through a combination of market forces, policies, enforcement and improved monitoring. This study...

The Cooperative Architecture, defined in the context of the Unitary Network of the Italian Public Administration, is perhaps the most ambitious project undertaken by the Italian Authority for Information Systems in Public Administration (A.I.P.A.). The goal of the architecture is to facilitate the interoperation at the application level of the autonomous and heterogeneous information systems of...