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Chapter 10 Taxation
Kaplow, Louis - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 647-755). 2007
This Handbook entry presents a conceptual, normative overview of the subject of taxation. It emphasizes the relationships among the main functions of taxation—notably, raising revenue, redistributing income, and correcting externalities—and the mapping between these functions and various...
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Rent seeking and regime stability in rentier states
Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Naghavi, Alireza - In: European Journal of Political Economy 27 (2011) 4, pp. 740-748
Are natural resources a source of conflict or stability? Empirical studies demonstrate that rents from natural … source of conflict and the rentier state view which emphasizes the role of resource rents in promoting peace and stability … struggle. We demonstrate that the associated increased cost of conflict may in fact promote regime stability. The peaceful …
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Effective support for community resource management
Ansink, Erik; Bouma, Jetske - In: Forest Policy and Economics 37 (2013) C, pp. 94-103
literature on international environmental agreements to analyse the stability of such coalitions. A novel observation that we …
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The Market for Conservation and Other Hostages
Harstad, Bård - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
A conservation good, such as the rainforest, is a hostage: it is possessed by S who may prefer to consume it, but B receives a larger value from continued conservation. A range of prices would make trade mutually beneficial. So, why doesn't B purchase conservation, or the forest, from S? If this...
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Addressing Global Environmental Externalities: Transaction Costs Considerations
Libecap, Gary D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Is there a way to understand why some global environmental externalities are addressed effectively whereas others are not? The transaction costs of defining the property rights to mitigation benefits and costs is a useful framework for such analysis. This approach views international cooperation...
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Think Locally, Act Locally: Spillovers, Spillbacks, and Efficient Decentralized Policymaking
Ogawa, Hikaru; Wildasin, David E. - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 4, pp. 1206-17
We analyze models with interjurisdictional spillovers among heterogeneous jurisdictions, such as CO2 emissions that affect the global environment. Each jurisdiction's emissions depend upon the local stock of capital, which is interjurisdictionally mobile and subject to local taxation. In...
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Climate mitigation co-benefits from sustainable nutrient management in agriculture : Incentives and opportunities
Andersen, Mikael Skou - 2021
Nitrogen management policies introduced in the past decades by some OECD countries have succeeded in reducing excess nitrogen use by farmers, but half of global mineral fertiliser use is still lost for crops. While about half of OECD countries have nutrient surpluses of between 25-50 kg N per...
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Chapter 21 Economics of Defense in a Globalized World
McGuire, Martin C. - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 623-648). 2007
revolutionary effects of globalization and its new challenges to world security and stability. The challenges to security now come …
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Atmospheric externalities and environmental taxation
Sandmo, Agnar - In: Energy Economics 33 (2011) S1, pp. 4-4
The paper reviews the theory of environmental taxation under first best and second best conditions. It argues that negative environmental externalities lead to reductions of the provision of public goods, while investment in abatement increases the supply of public goods. Together with optimal...
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Un nuevo marco de análisis para los bienes públicos: la Teoría de los Bienes Públicos Globales/A New Analytical Framework for Public Goods: the Theory of Global Public Goods
GARCÍA-ARIAS, J. - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 22 (2004) Agosto, pp. 187-212
El proceso de globalización, junto con otros factores, ha traído aparejado una transformación sustantiva en la justificación y en la capacidad de actuación del sector público en una economía de mercado. En este trabajo analizamos uno de los vértices de este proceso, concretamente cómo...
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