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Use and Abuse of Authority - A Behavioral Foundation of the Employment Relation
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus - CESifo - 2013
Employment contracts give a principal the authority to decide flexibly which task his agent should execute. However, there is a tradeoff, first pointed out by Simon (1951), between flexibility and employer moral hazard. An employment contract allows the principal to adjust the task quickly to...
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Brown Growth, Green Growth, and the Efficiency of Urbanization
Quaas, Martin F.; Smulders, Sjak - CESifo - 2012
production. Pollution, as a force that discourages agglomeration, is caused by domestic production. We show that cities are too … large and too few in number in uncoordinated equilibrium if economic growth implies increasing pollution (‘brown growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010599729
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L'énergie dans le développement de la Nouvelle-Calédonie = Energy in the development of New Caledonia
Bars, Yves Le; Faugere, Elsa; Menanteau, Philippe; … - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2010
Dans un contexte de raréfaction des ressources en énergie fossile et de changements climatiques, la Nouvelle-Calédonie, qui n'est pas actuellement soumise au protocole de Kyoto, doit répondre aux préoccupations environnementales et trouver les voies et moyens d'une moins grande dépendance...
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Responding to Climate Change: A Proposed Framework for Action
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2000
For the nations of Latin America and the Caribbean to respond effectively to the Climate Change challenge, they need to be able to understand what the impacts of Climate Change may be for each country and the extent of each country's contribution to the problem before they can define and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216170
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Fertilizing Nature: A Tragedy of Excess in the Commons
Good, Allen G; Beatty, Perrin H - eSocialSciences - 2011
nitrogen pollution to our ecosphere. The atmosphere is polluted by N2O and NOx gases that directly and indirectly increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323687
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Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India
Hanna, Rema; Greenstone, Michael - eSocialSciences - 2011
Using the most comprehensive data file ever compiled on air pollution, water pollution, environmental regulations, and … air pollution regulations were effective at reducing ambient concentrations of particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, and … nitrogen dioxide. The most successful air pollution regulation is associated with a modest and statistically insignificant …
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The Yamuna: Need for Inclusive Debate
Iyer, Ramaswamy R. - eSocialSciences - 2009
The prevailing attitude is that ‘development’ is important, and that if people have to be pushed around for this, so be it. This a response to the views expressed by E Sreedharan on the Yamuna, ‘Restrict Yamuna with walls and develop low-lying areas: Metro chief’ (Times...
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The Effectiveness of Taxation and Feed-in Tariffs
Antoniou, Fabio; Strausz, Roland - CESifo - 2014
We study (energy) markets with dirty incumbents and costly entry by clean producers. For intermediate entry costs, the market outcome exhibits inefficient production and inefficient entry. A policy mix of three popular regulatory instruments—taxation on polluters, feed-in tariffs for clean...
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Water and the Millennium Development Goals: Investment Needs in Latin America & the Caribbean
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2005
This study has been carried out with the purpose of assessing the overall investment needs of Latin America and the Caribbean by 2015, based on the assumption of meeting the Millennium Development Goals with regards to improving access to drinking water services and to better sanitation. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010719965
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Which border taxes? Origin and destination regimes with fiscal competition in output and emission taxes
Cremer, Helmut; Gahvari, Firouz - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2006
output tax is ineffective as an instrument for fiscal competition; the emission tax is used not only for combating pollution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011191428