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Environmental tax reform and the double dividend: An econometric demand analysis

Scholz, Christian M. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997

This paper examines the empirical relevance of the double dividend of revenue neutral marginal environmental tax … Demand System. We find no evidence that a revenue neutral environmental tax reform that increases the energy or gasoline tax …

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More Coffee, More Cigarettes? Coffee Market Liberalisation, Gender, and Bargaining in Uganda

Golan, Jennifer; Lay, Jann - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

Focusing on intra-household allocation, we investigate the effects of coffee market liberalisation in Uganda. As coffee has traditionally been a male domain, higher income from this activity might increase gender disparities. In addition, gender-related inefficiency in household production might...

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Capital Income Taxation of Asymmetric Countries

Koop, Michael J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2001

The paper analyzes the effects of a source-based capital income tax on production and market structures, trade and … taxation. Simulations of the model show that a one-size-fits-all tax policy does not exist and that governments need to take … their own countryÂ’s factor endowment into account when making tax policy decisions. …

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A National Systems View of University Development: Towards a Broadened Perspective on the Entrepreneurial University Based on the German and US Experience

Lehrer, Mark; Nell, Phillip; Gärber, Lisa - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

This paper postulates a life cycle model of university entrepreneurialism at the national level. Based on the analysis, this paper identifies two fundamental sources of such entrepreneurialism: 1) the institutional anchoring of the university of a public-private hybrid form in organization and...

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Who bears the costs of climate change? Evidence from Tunisia

Wiebelt, Manfred; Al-Raffai, Perrihan; Breisinger, Clemens - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

In order to estimate the economic costs of climate change for Tunisia, this paper uses a combination of biophysical and economic models. In addition, the paper draws on the literature to complement the quantitative analysis with policy recommendations on how to adapt to the changing climate. The...

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Selection wages and discrimination

Schlicht, Ekkehart - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

Applicants for any given job are more or less suited to fill it, and the firm will select the best among them. Increasing the wage offer attracts more applicants and makes it possible to raise the hiring standard and improve the productivity of the staff. Wages that optimize on the trade-off...

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The Household Production Function Approach to Valuing Climate: The Case of Japan

Maddison, David; Rehdanz, Katrin; Narita, Daiju - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

According to household production function theory households combine marketed goods and nonmarket environmental goods to produce service flows of direct value to the household. This readily explains why, as an input to household production activities, households might have preferences over the...

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Human Capital Depreciation During Family-related Career Interruptions in Male and Female Occupations

Görlich, Dennis; Grip, Andries de - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

This study investigates the relation between human capital depreciation during family-related career interruptions and occupational choice of women in the (West) German labour market. In contrast to other studies that do not explicitly focus on family-related career interruptions, we find that...

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A generalized unification theorem for choice theoretic foundations: Avoiding the necessity of pairs and triplets

He, Junnan - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

This paper is concerned with the axiomatic foundation of the revealed preference theory. Many well-known results in literature rest upon the ability to choose over budget sets that contains only 2 or 3 elements, the situations which are not observable in real life. In order to give a more...

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The magic of storytelling: How curiosity and aesthetic preferences work

Bianchi, Marina - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

Why do we love stories? That this is not an idle question is shown by the fact that we spend an enormous amount of time in our lives following stories: telling and listening to them; reading them; watching them on television or in films or on stage. Despite their recurrent similarity and even...

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