compare two types of contracts: a deforestation performance-based contract and a conditional avoided deforestation … information rent/efficiency trade-off. If the contract is performance-based (resp. conditionality-based), information rents are …

positive effect of ownership concentration on firm performance matters more in countries with weak investor protection and that … private domestic ownership leads to higher performance. …

provides an empirical analysis on how individuals’ relative income position affects their performance. Using a unique data set … income differences within a team, the worse the performance of the soccer players is. The more the players are integrated in …

that the influence of environment on optimal growth in the long-run may be explained by the detrimental effect of pollution … on life expectancy. It also shows that, in such a case, greener preferences are growth- and welfare-improving even if the …

This article investigates the influence of environmental policy on growth assuming that the channel of transmission … (1985) where growth is driven by a mechanism à la Romer (1986). We demonstrate that environmental policy has an ambiguous … effect on growth in the steady-state when the detrimental impact of pollution on health and lifetime is taken into account …

Data on the growth performances of countries with similar comparative (dis)advantage and political institutions reveal … a striking variation across world regions. While some former autocracies such as the East Asian growth miracles have …

degradation increases in the early stages of growth, but it eventually decreases as income exceeds a threshold level. The present …

Social Responsibility certification and the firms’ performance. Our work builds a CSR index that intersects two of the three …