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Conservation Contracts and Political Regimes

Harstad, Bård; Mideksa, Torben - CESifo - 2015

Motivated by tropical deforestation, we analyze (i) a novel theory of resource extraction, (ii) the optimal …’s presence may induce institutional change. Deforestation can be legal or illegal in the model: each district decides how much to …

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The Market for Conservation and Other Hostages

Harstad, Bård - CESifo - 2013

A “conservation good” (such as a tropical forest) is owned by a seller who is tempted to consume (or cut), but a buyer benefits more from conservation. The seller does conserve if the buyer is expected to buy, but the buyer is unwilling to pay as long as the seller conserves. This...

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Deforestation, Production Intensity and Land Use under Insecure Property Rights

Amacher, Gregory S.; Koskela, Erkki; Ollikainen, Markku - CESifo - 2004

management, and unsustainable forest exploitation in the form of illegal logging to explore deforestation and agricultural and … to increase deforestation by increasing both land conversion to agriculture and illegal logging. Contrary to current …, and thus deforestation. Confiscation risk decreases timber supply from unsustainable forestry practices while the affect …

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Alcohol Taxation and Regulation in the European Union

Cnossen, Sijbren - CESifo - 2006

This paper estimates the external costs of harmful alcohol use in the European Union (EU) and confronts them with the alcohol excise duty collections per adult and per litre of pure alcohol in the various Member States. In all but one Member State, drinkers do not appear to pay their way. This...

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Temptation in Vote-Selling: Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Philippines

Hicken, Allen; Leider, Stephen G.; Ravanilla, Nico; … - CESifo - 2014

-vote-selling intervention in the Philippines. We model selling one’s vote as a temptation good: it creates positive utility for the future self …

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Productivity as if Space Mattered: An Application to Factor Markets Across China

Cheng, Wenya; Morrow, John; Tacharoen, Kitjawat - CESifo - 2013

Although firms may face radically different production conditions, this dimension of firm heterogeneity is often overlooked. We model input demand across local factor markets, explicitly considering search costs which explain why firms care about both the price and availability of inputs. The...

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Multiple Pollutants, Uncovered Sectors, and Suboptimal Environmental Policies

Fullerton, Don; Karney, Dan - CESifo - 2014

In our analytical general equilibrium model where two polluting inputs can be substitutes or complements in production, we study the effects of a tax on one pollutant in two cases: one where both pollutants face taxes and the second where the other pollutant is subject to a permit policy. In...

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Households, Markets and Public Choice

Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - CESifo - 2014

We develop a model that combines competitive exchange of private commodities across endogenously formed groups with public good provision and global collective decisions. There is a tension between local and global collective decisions. In particular, we show that group formation and collective...

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International Capital Markets, Oil Producers and the Green Paradox

Meijden, Gerard C. van der; Ploeg, Frederick Van der; … - CESifo - 2014

A rapidly rising carbon tax leads to faster extraction of fossil fuels and accelerates global warming. We analyze how general equilibrium effects operating through the international capital market affect this Green Paradox. In a two-region, two-period world with identical homothetic preferences...

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What is the Best Environmental Policy? Taxes, Permits and Rules under Economic and Environmental Uncertainty

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Economides, George; … - CESifo - 2010

We study the importance of uncertainty and public finance to the welfare ranking of three environmental policy instruments: pollution taxes, pollution permits and Kyoto-like numerical rules for emissions. The setup is the basic stochastic neoclassical growth model augmented with the assumptions...

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