Sustainability and Welfare Policy in European Market Economies

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the editors
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Contents
• Editorial (Jürgen Plöhn)
• Chapter One: General Economic Approaches and Developments
• Production Possibility Frontier: New Concepts for Post-Crisis Economics Textbooks (Henrik Egbert / Nadeem Naqvi / Teodor Sedlarski)
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The ‘Standard’ Production Possibility Frontier
• 3. The ‘Market-dependent’ Production Set
• 4. The ‘Transaction Cost Determined’ Production Possibility Frontier
• 5. Conclusions
• References
• Development and Exports Diversification: There is no Hump? (Peter Stoyanov)
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Literature overview
• 3. The data
• 3.1 Constructing a consistent product nomenclature (CNPLUS)
• 3.2 Is trade with EU12 representative of trade with the world?
• 4. Replicating the usual findings in the literature
• 5. Stages of diversification
• 5.1 Nonparametric modelling
• 5.2 RESET-ing the relationship
• 5.3 Fixed-effects estimation
• 6. Discussion and conclusion
• References
• Business Process Improvement – an Empirical Research (Boris Borchev)
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Literature review
• 3. Research methodology
• 4. Research results – descriptive analysis
• 4.1 Business process documentation aspect
• 4.2 Business process analysis and improvement aspect
• 4.3 BPM leadership aspect
• 4.4 Performance measurement aspect
• 4.5 Interaction aspect
• 5. Factor analysis
• 6. Conclusion, further steps
• References
• Chapter Two: Economic Sustainability
• The Institutional Path to Sustainable Growth (Teodor Sedlarski)
• 1. A consolidating research field: new economic history of markets and growth
• 2. Basic concept of the institutional theory of economic growth
• 2.1 Coercion-constraining institutions
• 2.2 Contract-enforcement institutions
• 3. The path from limited-access (extractive) to open-access (inclusive) societies
• “Black death” in 14th century Europe
• 15th century Europe: Geographical discoveries
• Colonization of Buenos Ayres
• Colonization of Jamestown
• 18th and 19th century South America / European Empires in the East
• Extractive institutions in modern societies
• Rule Obedience
• Reversal to limited-access
• 6. Conclusion: Development implications
• References
• Financial Instruments for Sustainable Development (Dieter Flämig)
• 1. This is about the future of mankind
• 2. ”The biggest market failure in history“
• 3. The situation is not hopeless
• 4. For a ”Super-Kyoto“!
• 5. The reorientation of the national economy
• 6. Europe must find its way
• 7. Technical innovations induce social progress
• 8. Stumbling stones on the path towards sustainable economy
• 9. The new profile of the location Europe: Why not the best?!
• 10. The reorientation of grant systems
• 11. The financing requirement
• 12. Emissions trading versus special grants?
• 13. Only with the willingness to take new and different approaches we can achieve our goals!
• 14. The basic idea of the “climate protection pension“
• 15. Appropriate projects and project volumes are still missing
• References
• Behavioral Models of Economic Expectations as Foundations for Sustainable Macroeconomic Policy (Anton Gerunov)
• Introduction
• 1. Modeling Expectations
• 1.1 Major Schools of Thought
• 1.2 Rational Expectations
• 1.3 Heterogeneous Expectations
• 2. Testing Inflation Expectations Data
• 2.1 Expectations Data Overview
• 2.2 Rational Expectations
• 2.3 Heterogeneous Expectations
• 3. Implications for Economic Modeling and Policy-Making
• 4. Conclusion
• References
• Our Common Waste – Solutions for a Sustainable Society (Dina Barbian)
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Interconnections between the economic and the environmental system
• 3. The environment as a waste sink
• 4. Solutions for a sustainable society or: What is a good waste management system?
• 4.1 Prevention of Waste
• 4.2 Repair, reduction, re-use
• 4.3 Recycling, composting
• 4.4 Recovery: material or energy recovery
• 4.5 More steps toward an efficient waste management system
• 5. Summary and conclusion
• References
• Information Security and Privacy Aspects of Technologies for Sustainability – the Outlook for Germany (Johannes Schubert / Erik Mautsch / Sarfaraz Ghulam / Gerrit Tamm / Vladimir Stantchev)
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Research
• 2.1 Classification of Literature
• Classification of Literature into Subjects
• Main concept I: Description of legal standards and their background
• Main concept II: Description of the effects legal standards cause for specific use-cases
• 2.2 Determination of suitable legal standards
• Methodology
• Catalogue of legal standards
• Art. 2 (1) GG
• § 1 BDSG
• § 3 (1) BDSG
• § 203 (1) StGB
• § 3 (9) BDSG
• § 28 (7) BDSG
• § 4 BDSG
• § 4a BDSG
• § 6a BDSG
• § 13 (1) BDSG
• § 28 (1) BDSG
• § 3a BDSG
• § 9 BDSG (incl. rider)
• § 11 BDSG
• § 35 BDSG
• 3. Results
• 3.1 Preconditions of the Privacy Law for the Implementation of AAL Infrastructure
• Limitations of Data Processing
• Technical Implementation of Data Security
• 3.2 Approach for a legal data collection by AAL infrastructure
• 4. Outlook
• References
• Addressing Sustainability in IT Governance Frameworks (Lubomira Stantcheva / Vladimir Stantchev)
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Aspects of IT Governance
• 3. Approaches for Cloud Governance
• 4. Addressing Sustainability
• 5. Case Study
• 6. Discussion and Outlook
• References
• Chapter Three: Welfare and Educational Policy in Europe
• Health and Consumer Policy in the EU (Remi Maier-Rigaud / Michael Sauer / Frank Schulz-Nieswandt)
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Consumer Protection
• 2.1 Origin and tasks of European Consumer Policy
• 2.2 European Consumer Policy between paternalism and lobbying: regulation of tobacco and food labeling
• 3. Open Method of Coordination
• 4. Cohesion Policy
• 5. Conclusions
• References
• Government Intervention in Postsecondary Education in Bulgaria (Pavlin P. Bonev)
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Literature review
• 3. Labor Market Failure as a Result of Government Involvement
• 4. Bulgarian Government Efficiency in High Education
• 5. Conclusion
• References
• Editors and Contributors