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Resource-Based Reluctance, Reversed Asymmetry, and Non-Trade Integration Incentives - Theory and Evidence from European Neighbourhood

Franke, Anja; Gawrich, Andrea; Melnykovska, Inna; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

Among ENP countries, Azerbaijan is outstanding because it leans on its resource base and sees the EU at the receiving end of bilateral relations. At the other extreme, Ukraine depends on EU cooperation, especially with respect to trade. We develop a comprehensive theoretical concept for...

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Metalliferous Sediments in the Atlantis II Deep – Assessing the Geological and Economic Resource Potential and Legal Constraints

Bertram, Christine; Krätschell, Anna; O'Brien, Killian; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

To date, mineral resources are only mined on land but projected increases in demand have brought the exploration and exploitation of marine mineral resources back into focus. The Atlantis II Deep, located in the central Red Sea between Saudi Arabia and Sudan, is one of the largest marine sulfide...

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Protecting Brazil's tropical forest: a CGE analysis of macroeconomic, sectoral, and regional policies

Wiebelt, Manfred - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1994

The 'deforestation problem' in Brazil consists of a variety of interrelated issues, of which this paper identifies a … Brazil, it is shown that macroeconomic reform is complementary to conservation policies. Therefore, if not for other reasons …, macroeconomic reform is urgently needed to provide an adequate framework for microeconomic conservation policies to be effective …

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Shadow vs. market prices in explaining land allocation: Subsistence maize cultivation in rural Mexico

Arslan, Aslihan - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

-market values in understanding both farmers' supply response and on-farm conservation of traditional crops with non-market values …

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Conserving Biodiversity by Commercialization? A Model Framework for a Market for Genetic Resources

Deke, Oliver - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2001

markets for genetic resources can effectively contribute to the conservation of biodiversity. In this paper, a market … framework is developed to describe possible market outcomes, each with a different impact on conservation. It turns out that the …

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Financing National Protected Area Networks Internationally ; The Global Environment Facility as a Multilateral Mechanism of Transfer

Deke, Oliver - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2004

Nationally implemented protected area measures for biodiversity conservation generate cross-border externalities. For … internalizing these externalities at the international level, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) has been established as a …

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Farmers' Subjective Valuation of Subsistence Crops: The Case of Traditional Maize in Mexico

Arslan, Aslihan; Taylor, J. Edward - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

Shadow prices guide farmers' resource allocations, but for subsistence farmers growing traditional crops, shadow prices may bear little relationship with market prices. We econometrically estimate shadow prices of maize using data from a nationally representative survey of rural households in...

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How close is your government to its people? Worldwide indicators on localization and decentralization

Ivanyna, Maksym; Shah, Anwar - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

This paper is intended to provide an assessment of the impact of the silent revolution (decentralization reforms) of … dimensions of decentralization and localization. These sub-indexes are aggregated and adjusted for heterogeneity to develop an …

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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 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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