The relationship between free trade and the environment is one of the main issues of contention between environmental and ecological economics. Environmental economics assumes a positive relationship between free trade, economic growth and environmental policies. Environmental externalities may cause important damage. However, trade is not to be blamed for this. Instead, the fault lies with pol...

This paper examines the comparative response of multinationals and domestic firms to an economic crisis, using the empirical setting of a well defined case of economic slowdown in Chile. We find that employment in manufacturing plants has been drastically reduced during the economic crisis. Our findings reveal that multinationals are more likely to exit contributing to ...

the european :union: with 28 member states is one of the largest economic :union:s in the world, however, the economic and financial crisis of recent years preceded by the housing crisis of 2008 in the us created many difficulties for it, and affected some of its member states, such as ireland, portugal, italy, spain and particularly greece. the counties’ huge amount of debt and the doubt about...

BACKGROUND The global financial and economic crisis starting in 2007 led to a deterioration of several socio-economic determinants of mental health. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to examine the impact of the present economic crisis on the depression and anxiety levels of the employed in the private and public sector in Slovenia. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Altogether 1592 employees compl...