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The use of environmental resources involves strategic be- havior of self-interested agents, bargaining, cooperation and other efforts to provokeor settle conflicts. In order to model conflicts and cooperation in managingthese resources most papers contained in the book make use of advanced game theoretic concepts. The first six contributions investigate conceptual issues of international conflicts and cooperation while the other four address conflicts and cooperation arising in the context of monitoring and enforcing environmental controls. The emphasis is on demonstrating how new developments in economic (game) theory can fruitfully be applied to important environmental issues. Descriptive as well as normative approaches are presented. In the context of international environmental problems attention is focused on the consequences of non-cooperative behavior and on the incentives for, and barrieres to, the emergence of cooperation. Incomplete implementation of environmental controls can be attributed, to some extent, to failures of monitoring and enforcement which, in turn, raises the issue of designing institutional arrangements allowing for (more) effective enforcement. Students and researchers with a working knowledge of economic theory can expect to learn how complex issues of economic-environmental interaction are successfully tackled by advanced (game) theoretic methods.

 This volume, in a sense, aims at reflecting the qualities of the honoree and it does so in two respects. On the one hand, it covers a great variety of subdisciplines of economics. On the other hand, the book ranges from theoretical and mathematical economics to hands-on applied analyses of economic-policy issues. All essays are driven by the aspiration to better understand the economy and to draw relevant conclusions for economic policy. The book is divided into five parts dealing with the German economy, European economic issues, global markets, international trade theory and policy, and natural resources and the environment.

Der Sammelband enthält interdisziplinäre Analysen unterschiedlicher Formen der Finanzierung von Fernsehanbietern und ihrer Auswirkungen, insbesondere von Werbung, Gebühren und Entgelten (Pay-TV oder 'Pay-per-view'). Alternative Finanzierungsformen prägen Inhalte und Struktur von Fernsehprogrammen; ebenso wie technische und medienpolitische Veränderungen beeinflussen sie darüber hinaus die Zahl und Größe der Fernsehanbieter und damit deren Präsenz im öffentlichen Meinungsbildungsprozeß. Medienwissenschaftler, Ökonomen, Juristen und Praktiker legen in dem Sammelband ihre Sicht dieser Zusammenhänge dar.

This volume brings together 8 previously unpublished papers dealing with various modes of allocating jointly consumable goods (i. e. public goods). The issues covered range from voluntary contributions and price exclusion (market allocation) to positive and normative analyses of different political allocation procedures for public goods. Given this wide spectrum of allocative schemes for public goods there does not seem to be an easy and clear-cut message from modern public-goods theory to public allocation policy.