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addressing here is: should uncertainty about future preferences lead to a more conservative attitude towards environment … environment than ours, but this result relies heavily on the assumption of a separability between consumption and environmental … (impatience, intertemporal flexibility, natural capacities of regeneration of the environment, relative preference for the …
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the use of environmental services and so is a direct cause of environmental degradation. The environment is valued both as … marginal discount rate allows us to avoid the depletion of the environment. …
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The Kyoto Protocol, which came in force in February 2005, allows countries to resort to «supplementary activities» consisting particularly in carbon sequestration in agricultural soils. Existing papers studying the optimal carbon sequestration recognize the importance of the temporality of...
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This paper asks whether, and how, the state can solve the present crisis. The method of enquiry is to analyze what it did in the two comparable crises of 1893 and 1929. In each case, a prolonged and structural slowdown in the world economy was followed by financial crisis, a period of turmoil...
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today, combined with an industrial policy whose centre is human development – forging and nurturing a talented and creative …
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This paper was due to be presented to the 2013 conference of the World Association for Political Economy, in Florianopolis, Brasil. In the event, the author was unable to attend. The paper summarises the main conclusions of ten years of research into the Creative Industries in London and the UK,...
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comparability, we also utilize cross-country governance indicators. …
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We contribute to the field of urban governance and globalization through an empirically-based exploration of … indicators of globalization (at the country and city level), city governance, city performance (access and quality of … framework and a set of hypotheses, and then test them econometrically. The findings suggest that good governance and …
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Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) conducted among 6,500 firms in 27 transition countries. We refer to the …
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Based on the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) of firms in transition countries, which … of governance standards; ii) in misgoverned settings, FDI firms may magnify the problems of state capture and procurement …
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