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Eastern Enlargement of the EU: Jobs, Investment and Welfare in Present Member Countries

Heijdra, Ben J.; Keuschnigg, Christian; Kohler, Wilhelm - CESifo - 2002

Eastern enlargement of the EU promises gains, but also imposes fiscal costs on incumbent countries. A sensitive issue concerns immigration, jobs and wages. We address these issues in a general equilibrium framework, both analytically and through numerical simulations. Analytical results identify...

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Climate Policy and Development

Gersbach, Hans; Hummel, Noemi - CESifo - 2009

We propose a development-compatible refunding system designed to mitigate climate change. Industrial countries pay an initial fee into a global fund. Each country chooses its national carbon tax. Part of the global fund is refunded to developing and industrial countries, in proportion to the...

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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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Faustmann and the Climate

Hoel, Michael; Holtsmark, Bjart; Holtsmark, Katinka - CESifo - 2012

The paper presents an adjusted Faustmann Rule for optimal harvest of a forest when there is a social cost of carbon emissions. The theoretical framework takes account of the dynamics and interactions of forests’ multiple carbon pools and assumes an infinite time horizon. Our paper provides a...

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Food for Fuel: The Effect of the U.S. Biofuel Mandate on Poverty in India

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; … - CESifo - 2012

Many countries have adopted energy policies that promote biofuels as a substitute for gasoline in transportation. For instance, more than 40% of U.S. grain is now used for energy and this share is expected to rise under the current Renewable Fuels Mandate. This paper examines the distributional...

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