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"Basic Principles of Sustainable Development"
Harris, Jonathan M. - EconWPA - 2001
This paper explores what a critical commentary on micro principles texts might look like, examining what is to be critiqued and how to do it.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005555984
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Monetary Incentive Response Effects in Contingent Valuation Mail Surveys
Wheeler, William J.; Lazo, Jeffrey K.; Heberling, Matthew T. - EconWPA - 1997
Monetary incentives are one approach for increasing response rates in contingent valuation surveys. We present the results of a case study desgined to assess the effect of incentives on response rates and respondent behavior. We compare response rates and quality of answers for five incentive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407811
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NATURAL RESOURCE ABUNDANCE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH REVISITED
Stijns, Jean-Philippe - EconWPA - 2001
Data on energy and mineral reserves suggest that natural resource abundance has not been a significant structural determinant of economic growth between 1970 and 1989. The story behind the effect of natural resources on economic growth is a complex one that typical growth regressions do not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118731
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China and the Geopolitics of Oil in the Asian Pacific Region
Bustelo, Pablo - EconWPA - 2005
China’s growing demand for oil is significantly changing the international geopolitics of energy, especially in the … East Asian economies (China, Japan and South Korea) is also a possibility. This document first of all presents an overview … of China’s energy sector, emphasising the strong growth in its energy demand to date and its potential for future growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118931
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From Decentralisation of Planning to People's Planning: Experiences of the Indian States of West Bengal and Kerala
Charvak - EconWPA - 2005
From Decentralisation of Planning to Peoples Planning - Experiences of the Indian States of Kerala and West Bengal by Charvak, 2000: The Discussion Paper attempts a comparison of the process of decentralisation of planning in the two States that have made significant progress in this area. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005555989
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Centralization and Decentralization of Public Policy in a Complex Framework
Alfano, Maria Rosaria - EconWPA - 2005
usefulness of new optimizing procedures for the governance of decentralization. The first section of the paper explores both … positive and normative issues related to centralization and decentralization in a globalized framework as well as the … conflicting centralization and decentralization processes. Finally, this paper concludes with an exploration of how a form of in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556929
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Empirical Investigation of Autonomy and Motivation
Petrova, Kameliia - EconWPA - 2005
I study the effect of workers' motivation on the firm's choice of how much autonomy employees should be given. The main hypothesis of the paper is that employers give autonomy to workers who are already especially motivated. The empirical work is based on data from Wave 1 of the Health and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125716
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Coasean economics and the evolution of marine property in Hawaii
kaiser, brooks; roumasset, james - EconWPA - 2004
The standard view that the absence of property rights is inefficient contradicts the Coasean proposition that the relative efficiency of different institutions depends on their ability to economize on transaction costs. Moreover, the comparative theory of open access and private property...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135079
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Gross National Happiness as an Answer to the Easterlin Paradox?
Tella, Rafael Di; MacCulloch, Robert - EconWPA - 2005
The Easterlin Paradox refers to the fact that happiness data are typically stationary in spite of considerable increases in income. This amounts to a rejection of the hypothesis that current income is the only argument in the utility function. One possible answer is that human development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561269
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Spatially and Intertemporally Efficient Waste Management: The Costs of Interstate Flow Control
Ley, Eduardo; Macauley, Molly K.; Salant, Stephen W. - EconWPA - 1996
We examine the intertemporal allocation of the solid waste of cities within the United States to spatially distributed landfills and incinerators, taking into account that capacity at existing and potential landfills is scarce. Amendments have been proposed to restrict waste flows between states...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412478