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Optimal Adaptation and Mitigation to Climate Change in Small Environmental Economies
Miller, Sebastian; Chisari, Omar; Galiani, Sebastian - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
This paper compares the optimal dynamic choices between policies of mitigation and adaptation for three economies: Brazil, Chile and the United States. The focus is on the optimal role of mitigation and adaptation for “environmentally small economies,” i. e. , economies that are witnessing...
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Entry and Quality Choices in Child Care Markets
Bastos, Paulo; Cristia, Julian - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
Many developing countries have adopted the market approach for expanding the supply of child care, but little is known about the economic behavior of independent providers. This paper draws on uniquely rich administrative data on child care centers and their inputs from São Paulo to examine the...
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Does Energy Consumption Respond to Price Shocks? Evidence from a Regression-Discontinuity Design
Bastos, Paulo; Cristia, Julian; Scartascini, Carlos G.; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper exploits unique features of a recently introduced tariff schedule for natural gas in Buenos Aires to estimate the short-run impact of price shocks on residential energy utilization. The schedule induces a non-linear and nonmonotonic relationship between households’ accumulated...
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Prudent Banks and Creative Mimics: Can We Tell the Difference?
Powell, Andrew; Miller, Marcus; Maier, Antonia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
innovation. This paper develops a model where prudent banks may signal their type through high capital ratios. Capital regulation … supervision detects risky behavior ex ante then it is complementary to capital regulation. However, financial innovation may erode …
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Compliance with the private standards and capacity building of national institutions under globalization: new agendas for developing countries?
Iizuka, Michiko; Borbon-Galvez, Yari - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009
There are two assumptions regarding regulatory instruments under the globalizing economy. These are: (1) increasing role of private standards in shaping the economic activities of developing countries; and (2) diminishing role of national institutions in "open" and "liberal" markets. In other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005256456
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Experimentation with Strategy and the Evolution of Dynamic Capability in the Indian Pharmaceutical Sector
Athreye, Suma; Kale, Dinar; Ramani, Shyama V. - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008
This paper demonstrates that radical regulatory changes can be tantamount to technological revolutions by studying Indian pharmaceutical firms. It shows that radical regulatory changes such as the Indian Patent Act of 1970, the New Industrial Policy of 1991 and the signing of TRIPS (Trade...
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Economic Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) of Project Environmental Impacts and Mitigation Measure: Implementation Guideline
Dixon, John A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This paper provides guidance to Bank staff on how to conduct an expanded, comprehensive economic cost-benefit analysis (CBA) in order to measure net benefits from a project taking both project and environmental factors into account, as required under Directives B.5 and B.9 in the Bank's...
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Investing in water quality : measuring benefits, costs and risks
Russell, Clifford S.; Vaughan, William J.; Clark, … - 2001
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Benefits and beneficiaries : an introduction to estimating distributional effects in cost-benefit analysis
Londero, Elio - 1996 - 2. ed.
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Firm Size, Knowledge Intensity and Employment Generation: The Microeconometric Evidence for the Service Sector in Uruguay
Aboal, Diego; Garda, Paula; Lanzilotta, Bibiana; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
The employment impact of innovation in the heterogeneous universe of services was studied using data from the 2004 …-2009 Uruguayan service innovation surveys. The empirical evidence shows that the impact of product innovation on employment is … positive, while process innovation appears to have no effect. The effect varies according to the skill level of the labor force …
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