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Grandfathering with Anticipation
Costello, Christopher J.; Grainger, Corbett - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Natural resources such as carbon, water, and fish are increasingly managed with markets that require an initial allocation of property rights. In practice these rights are typically grandfathered based on historical use, but rights could be allocated any number of ways. Taking the perspective of...
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Property Rights, Regulatory Capture, and Exploitation of Natural Resources
Costello, Christopher - 2015
We study how the strength of property rights to individual extractive firms affects a regulator's choice over exploitation rates for a natural resource. The regulator is modeled as an intermediary between current and future resource harvesters, rather than between producers and consumers, as in...
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Input Subsidies and the Destruction of Natural Capital : Chinese Distant Water Fishing
Englander, Gabriel; Zhang, Jihua; Villaseñor-Derbez, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Input subsidies in natural resource sectors are widely believed to cause depletion of the natural capital on which those sectors rely. But identification and data challenges have stymied attempts to empirically estimate the causal effect of subsidies on resource extraction. China's fishing fleet...
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Differences in How and Why Social Comparison and Real-Time Feedback Impact Resource Use : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Andor, Mark Andreas; Götte, Lorenz; Price, Michael Keith; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We compare the behavior and welfare effects of two popular interventions for resource conservation. The first intervention is social comparison reports (SC), which primarily provide consumers with information motivating behavioral change. The second intervention is real-time feedback (RTF),...
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Ein neuer Typ von Ämtern mit unterstützenden und administrativen Aufgaben bei der Europäischen Kommission : Mitteilung der Kommission
Europäische Kommission - 2002
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Outsourcing at Will : Unjust Dismissal Doctrine and the Growth of Temporary Help Employment
Autor, David H. - 2000
a simple model of employment outsourcing, the primary implication of which is that firms will respond to externally … imposed firing costs by outsourcing positions requiring the least firm-specific skills rather than those with the highest …
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Incomplete Contracts and Industrial Organization
Grossman, Gene M. - 1999
We develop an equilibrium model of industrial structure in which the organization of firms is endogenous. Differentiated consumer products can be produced either by vertically integrated firms or by pairs of specialized companies. Production of each variety of consumer good requires a unique,...
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Outsourcing, Inequality and Aggregate Output
Bilal, Adrien; Lhuillier, Hugo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Outsourced workers experience large wage declines, yet domestic outsourcing may raise aggregate productivity. To study … wage premia. Second, outsourcing raises output at the firm level. Third, contractors endogenously locate at the bottom of … the job ladder, implying that outsourced workers receive lower wages. Using firm-level instruments for outsourcing and …
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