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The effect of tourism on crime in Italy: A dynamic panel approach

Biagi, Bianca; Brandano, Maria Giovanna; Detotto, Claudio - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that, all else being equal, for the case of Italy, tourist areas tend to have a greater amount of crime than non-tourist areas in the long run. Following the literature of the economics of crime à la Becker (1968) and Ehrlich (1973) and using a system...

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Environmental taxes in the long run

Vetter, Henrik - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

The efficiency of the Pigouvian tax suggests that price-based regulation is the proper benchmark for efficient regulation. However, results due to Carlton and Loury (1980, 1986) question this; when harm depends on scale effects a pure Pigou tax is inefficient regulation in the long run. In this...

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The natural projection approach to production and uncertainty

Stiefenhofer, Pascal - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

equilibrium structure of exchange economies to a two period private ownership production model with uncertainty. It shows that …

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Economic consequences of the German environmental liability act: Capital market response for the chemical industry

Bartsch, Elga - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997

The Environmental Liability Act (Umwelthaftungsgesetz) enacted January 1, 1991 is claimed to have substantially … tightened the environmental liability regime in Germany. The economic consequences of the amendment of the German environmental … liability legislation initiated by the Sandoz accident are investigated for a portfolio of firms in the chemical industry. By …

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Enforcement of environmental liability in the case of uncertain causality and asymmetric information

Bartsch, Elga - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1996

In providing precautionary incentives and allocating environmental risk, liability for environmental damages faces two … modified strict liability rule is derived. A specific rule for the optimal allocation of environmental damages under …

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Netzwerkeffekte in der Software-Industrie: Eine Analyse der empirischen Literatur

Gröhn, Andreas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1996

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Optimal transfer policies

Stähler, Frank - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1995

some retrading costs, in-kind transfers are supposed to realise at least some of the mutual bargaining gains which would be … left unexploited by mere use of monetary payments. These retrading costs bias the recipient's consumption plans in favour …

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Institutionelle Arrangements für die Zuweisung von Opportunitätskosten

Siebert, Horst - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1996

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Cruise tourism externalities and residents' support: A generalized ordered logit analysis

Brida, Juan Gabriel; Del Chiappa, Giacomo; Meleddu, Marta; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

. Positive and negative externalities produced by this economic activity, as well as socio-demographic and economic determinants …

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Timing of adoption of clean technologies, transboundary pollution and international trade

Ben Jebli, Mehdi; Ben Youssef, Slim - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

The authors consider a symmetric model composed of two countries and a firm in each country. Firms produce the same good by means of a polluting technology which uses fossil energy. However, these firms can adopt a clean technology which uses a renewable energy having a lower unit cost....

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