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Empirical Models of Arbitrator Behavior Under Conventional Arbitration

Bloom, David E. - 1986

about the extent to which conventional arbitration decisions are fashioned as mechanical compromises of the parties' final … in the arbitration decisions, this evidence of mechanical compromise behavior should be viewed as characterizing the … overall operation of conventional arbitration mechanisms and not the behavior of individual arbitrators in any particular case …

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Does Hazardous Waste Matter? Evidence from the Housing Market and the Superfund Program

Greenstone, Michael - 2005

Approximately $30 billion (2000$) has been spent on Superfund clean-ups of hazardous waste sites, and remediation efforts are incomplete at roughly half of the 1,500 Superfund sites. This study estimates the effect of Superfund clean-ups on local housing price appreciation. We compare housing...

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Why Do Households Without Children Support Local Public Schools?

Hilber, Christian A. L. - 2004

While residents receive similar benefits from many local government programs, only about one-third of all households have children in public schools. We argue that capitalization of school spending into house prices can encourage residents to support spending on schools, even if the residents...

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Fullerton, Don - 2002

Because of difficulties measuring pollution, many prior papers suggest a subsidy to some observable method of reducing pollution. We take three papers from the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management as examples, and we extend them to make an additional important point. In each case,...

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NIMBY Taxes Matter : State Taxes and Interstate Hazardous Waste Shipments

Levinson, Arik - 1997

This paper examines the extent to which state taxes have inhibited interstate transport of" hazardous waste for disposal in the United States. It uses panel data from the Toxics Release" Inventory (TRI) and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) on interstate" shipments of waste, and...

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Environmental Costs Paid by the Polluter or the Beneficiary? The Case of CERCLA and Superfund

Fullerton, Don - 1993

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980 follows the "polluter pays" principle by placing retroactive liability on responsible firms. Yet this cost is borne by current shareholders who did not benefit from past low-cost waste management. This...

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Waste of Effort? International Environmental Agreements

Kellenberg, Derek - 2013

are ineffectual, merely ratifying business-as-usual outcomes and doing little to improve the environment. But much of that …

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The Economic Effects of the English Parliamentary Enclosures

Heldring, Leander; Robinson, James A.; Vollmer, Sebastian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We use a dataset of the entire population of English Parliamentary enclosure acts between 1750 and 1830 to provide the first causal evidence of their impact. Exploiting a feature of the Parliamentary process that produced such legislation as a source of exogenous variation, we show that...

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On the Ends of the State : Stationary Bandits and the Time Horizon in Eastern Congo

Henn, Soeren J.; Mugaruka, Christian M.; Ortiz, Miguel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We show that armed actors refrain from using their power to arbitrarily steal from an economy if, and only if, the armed actors' property rights over stealing from that economy are secure. By 2009, armed actors taxed, administered, and protected various villages in Democratic Republic of the...

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A Theory of Expropriation and Deviations From Perfect Capital Mobility

Eaton, Jonathan - 1982

their investment plans to avoid expropriation. When- ever the host country faces competitive foreign investors expropriation … optimality of expropriation by the host country are unresolved at the time of the investment decision. The larger the penalty …This paper develops a theory of capital movements in the presence of potential expropriation. The threat of …

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