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changed investment in network industries. According to the theoretical literature, regulatory uncertainty exposes both types … of regimes to the danger of underinvestment. However, regulatory uncertainty is arguably higher under rate … regulation implemented jointly with an independent sector regulator (indicating lower regulatory uncertainty) has a strong …
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This paper presents concepts from economic analysis that shed light on the formation and breakup of sovereign states. First, we discuss the key trade-off between economies of scale in the provision of public goods and political costs from heterogeneity of preferences. Second, we present four...
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This paper reviews the economics approach to conflict and national borders. The paper (a) provides a summary of ideas and concepts from the economics literature on the size of nations; (b) illustrates them within a simple analytical framework where populations fight over borders and resources,...
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In this paper, we explore the role of trade in differentiated final goods as well offshoring of tasks for inequality both within and between countries. We emphasize the distinction between managerial and production labor. Production labor is assumed to be a variable input composed of tradable...
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This paper discusses the process of European institutional integration from a political-economy perspective, linking the long-standing political debate on the nature of the European project to the recent economic literature on political integration and disintegration. First, we introduce the...
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, sustaining only modest cuts in emissions. These results are unaffected by uncertainty about the impact of catastrophe. By … contrast, uncertainty about the catastrophic threshold typically causes coordination to collapse. Whether the probability …
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This paper deals with three aspects of spectacular oil price episodes such as the one witnessed in 2008. First, the concept of temporary explosiveness is proposed as an empirical method for capturing this type of behavior. The application of a recently proposed recursive unit root test shows...
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some recipients are exposed to uncertainty. Although, under certainty almost all uninvolved participants distribute … resources equally, they exhibit remarkable heterogeneity in just allocations under uncertainty. Moreover, uninvolved … participants allocate on average less to recipients exposed to higher degrees of uncertainty and allocations are correlated with …
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prices versus tradable quantities in terms of expected welfare, given uncertainty, optimal policy and endogenous cost …
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circulation model. It also features Epstein-Zin utility and uncertainty about climate sensitivity that resolves after some time …
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