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The Use of Group-Level Approaches to Environmental and Natural Resource Policy
Kotchen, Matthew - 2020
Policies to address environmental and natural resource management are often implemented at the group level. The defining feature of such policies is that penalties or rewards are based on group rather than individual performance, or rights are allocated to a group rather than to individuals....
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Institutions, Factor Prices and Taxation : Virtues of Strong States?
Acemoglu, Daron - 2010
Many of the most pernicious economic institutions and policies create entry barriers or manipulate factor prices to transfer resources from entrepreneurs and workers to groups that hold political power. These inefficiencies partly result from the fact that direct and efficient fiscal instruments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462959
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Trade, Tragedy, and the Commons
Copeland, Brian R. - 2004
We develop a theory of resource management where the degree to which countries escape the tragedy of the commons is …
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The Effect of Interventions to Reduce Fertility on Economic Growth
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2011
quantitative macroeconomic theory. We apply the model to examine the effect of a change in fertility from the UN medium-variant to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461281
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The Value of Secure Property Rights : Evidence from Global Fisheries
Grainger, Corbett A. - 2011
Property rights are commonly touted as a solution to common pool resource problems. But in practice the security of these property rights varies substantially owing to differences in design. In fisheries, the design of individual transferable quotas (ITQs) varies widely; the consequences of...
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Property Rights, Regulatory Capture, and Exploitation of Natural Resources
Costello, Christopher - 2015
We study how the strength of property rights to individual extractive firms affects a regulator's choice over exploitation rates for a natural resource. The regulator is modeled as an intermediary between current and future resource harvesters, rather than between producers and consumers, as in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457807
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Controlling Stocks and Flows to Promote Quality : The Environment, With Applications to Physical and Human Capital
Keohane, Nathaniel O. - 2000
Our analysis melds two traditional approaches to promoting quality. The first is restoring the stock of quality. The second is curbing its flow of deterioration. Although both approaches are widely used in real world settings, analytic models have tended to focus on one strategy or the other. We...
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Natural Resource Abundance and Economic Growth
Sachs, Jeffrey D. - 1995
One of the surprising features of modern economic growth is that economies with abundant natural resources have tended to grow less rapidly than natural-resource-scarce economies. In this paper we show that economies with a high ratio of natural resource exports to GDP in 1971 (the base year)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473469
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The Political Resource Curse
Brollo, Fernanda - 2010
politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … features of political candidates at the municipal level. In accordance with the predictions of the theory, we find that larger …
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An Alternative Interpretation of the 'Resource Curse' : Theory and Policy Implications
Hausmann, Ricardo - 2003
The existence of a natural resource curse has been a longstanding theme in the economic literature and in policy discussions. We propose an alternative mechanism and study its policy implications. The mechanism is based on the interaction between two building blocks: specialization in...
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