Environmental policy and industrial competitiveness: The pollution haven hypothesis reconsidered

The Pollution-Haven Hypothesis suggests that tight environmental standards reduce domestic producers' competitiveness and give rise to their relocating to countries with more lenient standards. This paper questions that relocation is always caused by reduced competitiveness at home. By using a signaling approach, I show that relocation can be undertaken for purely strategic reasons. Relocation is the producer's tool to convince the policy maker to refrain from a further tightening of environmental control. I show that trade liberalization increases probability of strategic relocation

Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand ...: Eine publikationsanalytische Erfassung der Forschungsleistungen volkswirtschaftlicher Fachbereiche in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz

In diesem Aufsatz wird gezeigt, wie die Forschungsleistungen volkswirtschaftlicher Fachbereiche mit Hilfe eines publikationsanalyischen Verfahrens quantitativ abgeschätzt werden können. Das vorgestellte Verfahren erfasst alle einschlägigen Zeitschriftenartikel, die im Social Science Citation Index ausgewiesen werden und gewichtet die Publikationen insbesondere nach der Reputation der Zeitschrift, in der sie erschienen sind. Wir wenden das Verfahren auf die volkswirtschaftlichen Fachbereiche in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz an und gelangen so zu einer Rangliste der Forschungsleistungen dieser Fachbereiche.This paper presents a method of assessing the research productivity of economics departments. The method is based on an evaluation of all relevant journal publications which are included in the Social Science Citalion Index. The publications are weighted especially according to the reputation of the journal in which they appeared. We apply this method to the economics departments in Germany. Austria and Switzerland to arrive at a ranking of the analyzed departments with respeet to their research productivity

Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand

This paper presents a method of assessing the research productivity of economics departments. The method is based on an evaluation of all relevant journal publications included in the Social Sciences Citation Index. The publications are weighted especially according to the reputation of the journal they appeared in. We apply this method to the economics departments in Germany, Austria and Switzerland to arrive at a ranking of the analyzed departments according to research productivity

Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand: eine publikationsanalytische Erfassung der Forschungsleistungen volkswirtschaftlicher Fachbereiche in Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweiz

Summary in EnglishAvailable from Bibliothek des Instituts fuer Weltwirtschaft, ZBW, D-21400 Kiel W 113 (352) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekSIGLEDEGerman

Economic integration and environmental policy: does NAFTA increase pollution?

SIGLEAvailable from Bibliothek des Instituts fuer Weltwirtschaft, ZBW, Duesternbrook Weg 120, D-24105 Kiel W 113 (218) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekDEGerman

Analysis of promoter methylation in stool: a novel method for the detection of colorectal cancer.

The epigenetic marker HIC1 promoter methylation carries high potential for the remote detection of CRCs. We postulate that a panel of merely a few genetic and epigenetic markers will be required for the highly sensitive and specific detection of CRCs and adenomas in fecal samples from affected patients

Ring chromosome 6 in three fetuses: Case reports, literature review, and implications for prenatal diagnosis

Prenatal and postnatal findings in three fetuses with a ring chromosome 6 are presented, and the literature of this rare cytogenetic disorder is reviewed. The described fetuses illustrate the broad spectrum of the clinical manifestation of ring chromosome 6. In one fetus, the disorder was diagnosed incidentally by a routine amniocentesis due to advanced maternal age. The other two fetuses were hydrocephalic and had other congenital anomalies. Remarkably, the ring chromosome 6 tends to disappear in cultured amniotic fluid cells; karyotyping revealed complete or nearly complete monosomy 6. In contrast, the ring was preserved in high proportions of fetal leukocytes. Postnatal growth retardation is the only consistent finding of this chromosomal disorder. Maternal age is not significantly above average. An additional review of 20 literature cases revealed a striking tendency to hydrocephalus, either due to deficient brain growth or secondary to an aqueductal stenosis. Children with hydrocephalus and ring chromosme 6 tend to display facial dysmorphism and may have additional malformations, growth failure, eye anomalies, and seizures. In contrast, there are two reports on children with a ring chromosome 6 who had short stature, normal appearance, and a normal or almost-normal psychomotor development. In such patients at the mild end of the clinical spectrum, the phenotype is basically restricted to what Kosztolányi. [1987: Hum Genet 75:174-179] delineated as ring syndrome, comprising severe growth failure without major malformations, without a specific deletion syndrome, with only a few or no minor anomalies, and mild to moderate mental retardation. This ring syndrome is considered to occur independently of the autosome involved in the ring formation. The overall impression from our cases and from the literature review of cases with ring chromosome 6 is that the karyotype-genotype correlation is poor. This makes prognostic counseling of parents difficult and unsatisfactory. Serial targeted ultrasound examinations, especially of the brain, are decisive factors in elucidating the prognosis