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Regional Public Goods: From Theory to Practice
Adhikari, Ramesh; Negroni, Mirka J.; Leino, Jessica; … - Inter-American Development Bank
This book is based on a conference entitled "Regional Public Goods and Regional Development Assistance", held in Washington, D.C. on November 6-7, 2002. It examines how the IDB and the ADB support the provision of regional public goods (RPGs) in Latin America and Asia, respectively. RPGs are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943426
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Reconstructing Climate Policy
Stewart, Richard B.; Wiener, Jonathan B. - American Enterprise Institute
An examination of the current impasse in climate policy and the potential steps nations can take to reduce greenhouse gases.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273224
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What Has the Kyoto Protocol Wrought?
Hahn, Robert W.; Stavins, Robert - American Enterprise Institute
This volume investigates the potential performance of the Kyoto Protocol's international trading mechanisms in the presence of diverse types of domestic greenhouse policy instruments.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273238
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Regional Public Goods: From Theory to Practice
Adhikari, Ramesh; Negroni, Mirka J.; Leino, Jessica; … - Inter-American Development Bank
This book is based on a conference entitled "Regional Public Goods and Regional Development Assistance", held in Washington, D.C. on November 6-7, 2002. It examines how the IDB and the ADB support the provision of regional public goods (RPGs) in Latin America and Asia, respectively. RPGs are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772372
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Nonlinear Budget Set Regressions for the Random Utility Model
Blomquist, Nils Sören; Kumar, Anil; Liang, Che-yuan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper is about the nonparametric regression of a choice variable on a nonlinear budget set under utility maximization with general heterogeneity, i.e. in the random utility model (RUM). We show that utility maximization and convex budget sets make this regression three dimensional with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250211
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Preparing for the (Non-Existent?) Future of Work
Korinek, Anton; Juelfs, Megan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper considers the labor market and distributional implications of a scenario of ever-more-intelligent autonomous machines that substitute for human labor and drive down wages. We lay out three concerns arising from such a scenario and evaluate recent predictions and objections to these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334391
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Optimal Paternalism in a Population with Bounded Rationality
Manski, Charles F.; Sheshinski, Eytan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
A central mission of public economics has been to determine policies that optimize utilitarian welfare. To improve the realism of policy evaluation, it is desirable to enrich understanding of behavior and develop methods of analysis that use the enriched understanding to assess policies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322737
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When, Where, and Why? Early Industrialization in the Poor Periphery 1870-1940
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2010
This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1940 (Latin America …, the European periphery, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia). Intensive and extensive industrial … an early effort to identify the sources underlying the spread of the industrial revolution to the poor periphery …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462312
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The Impact of the Terms of Trade on Economic Development in the Periphery, 1870-1939 : Volatility and Secular Change
Blattman, Christopher - 2004
Most countries in the periphery specialized in the export of just a handful of primary products for most of their …. Additionally, both effects were asymmetric between Core and Periphery, findings that speak directly to the terms of trade debates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468093
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"Around the European Periphery 1870-1913 : Globalization, Schooling and Growth"
O'Rourke, Kevin H. - 1995
On average, the poor European periphery converged on the rich industrial core in the four or five decades prior to … globalization was by far the dominant force accounting for convergence (and divergence) around the periphery. Some exploited it well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473475