Fixed-term labour contracts were liberalised in Germany in order to raise the flexibility of the labour market. However, empirical studies using industry-level data find no significant effect of FTCs on…
A decade after the Climate Change Convention from Rio in 1992 the developed world - excluding the U.S. - is likely to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, which will impose legally binding greenhouse gas emission…
This paper demonstrates that cooperation in international environmental negotiations can be explained by preferences for equity. Within a N-country prisoner’s dilemma in which agents can either cooperate or…
