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How Fast are the Tourism Countries Growing? The cross-country evidence

Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2003

Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 "tourism countries" within a sample of 143 countries, observed during the period 1980-95....

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Geographical distribution of crime in Italian provinces: A spatial econometric analysis

Cracolici, Maria Francesca; Uberti, Teodora Erika - 2008

For a long time social sciences scholars from different fields have devoted their attention to identifying the causes leading to commit criminal offences and recently lots of studies have included the analysis of spatial effects. Respect to the Italian crime phenomenon some stylized facts exist:...

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Industrial coal demand in China: A provincial analysis

Cattaneo, Cristina; Manera, Matteo; Scarpa, Elisa - 2008

The general concern on the environmental implications of the rising demand for coal registered in China during the last few years has induced considerable research effort to produce accurate forecasts of China's energy requirements. Nevertheless, no previous study has modelled the coal demand in...

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A Spatial Econometric Analysis of Land Use Efficiency in Large and Small Municipalities

Guastella, Gianni; Pareglio, Stefano; Sckokai, Paolo - 2017

We estimate the relationship between urban spatial expansion and its socio-economic determinants in Lombardy, the most urbanised region of Italy (and one of the most urbanized of the European Union), at the municipality level. Test results suggest that this relationship varies significantly...

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A Public Finance Perspective on Climate Policy: Six Interactions That May Enhance Welfare

Siegmeier, Jan; Mattauch, Linus; Franks, Max; Klenert, David - 2015

Climate change economics mostly neglects sizeable interactions of carbon pricing with other fiscal policy instruments. Conversely, public finance typically overlooks the effects of future decarbonization efforts when devising instruments for the major goals of fiscal policy. We argue that such a...

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Using Carbon Pricing Revenues to Finance Infrastructure Access

Jakob, Michael; Chen, Claudine; Fuß, Sabine; Marxen, Annika - 2015

Introducing a price on greenhouse gas emissions would not only contribute to reducing the risk of dangerous anthropogenic climate change, but would also generate substantial public revenues. Some of these revenues could be used to cover investment needs for infrastructure providing access to...

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Could Resource Rents Finance Universal Access to Infrastructure? A First Exploration of Needs and Rents

Fuß, Sabine; Chen, Claudine; Jakob, Michael; Marxen, Annika - 2015

It is often argued that, ethically, resource rents should accrue to all citizens. Yet in reality the rents from exploiting national resources are often concentrated in the hands of a few. If resource rents were to be taxed, on the other hand, substantial amounts of public money could be raised...

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Time overruns as opportunistic behavior in public procurement

D'Alpaos, Chiara; Moretto, Michele; Valbonesi, Paola; … - 2012

This paper considers the supplier's strategic delivery lead time in a public procurement setting as the result of the firm's opportunistic behaviour on the optimal investment timing. In the presence of uncertainty on construction costs, we model the supplier's option to defer the contract's...

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Technological diffusion, spatial spillovers and regional convergence in Europe

Paci, Raffaele; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2001

convergence of GDP per worker observed across the European regions, in the absence of data on regional TFP. Second, the spatial … regional convergence in Europe. As for the first issue, our aim is to assess whether the convergence observed across European … regions is due to convergence in technology as well as to convergence in capital-labour ratios. We first develop a growth …

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Learning to Play Approximate Nash Equilibria in Games with Many Players

Cartwright, Edward - 2004

an imitation dynamic and provide conditions under which play evolves to an imitation equilibrium; convergence is …

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