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The Environmental Impacts of Protected Area Policy
Reynaert, Mathias; Rodrigues, Eduardo Augusto de Souza; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The world has pledged to protect 30 percent of its land and waters by 2030 to halt the rapid deterioration of critical … summarize empirical evidence across multiple regions of the world. In most cases, protection has had at most a modest impact on … econometric advancements, shifting focus to direct measures of biodiversity, filling the knowledge gap on the effect of protected …
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Credit Markets, Property Rights, and the Commons
Noack, Frederik; Costello, Christopher J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Credit markets and property rights are fundamental for modern economies, but they also have implications for the commons. Using a dynamic model of competitive resource extraction, we show that improving property right security unambiguously increases conservation incentives, but the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172188
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The Political Resource Curse
Brollo, Fernanda - 2010
The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with endogenous entry of political candidates. The evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462947
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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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Risks and global supply chains : What we know and what we need to know
Baldwin, Richard E.; Freeman, Rebecca - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Recent supply disruptions catapulted the issue of risk in global supply chains (GSCs) to the top of policy agendas and created the impression that shortages would have been less severe if GSCs were either shorter and more domestic, or more diversified. But is this right? We start our answer by...
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Growing Like China : Firm Performance and Global Production Line Position
Chor, Davin - 2020
Global value chains have fundamentally transformed international trade and development in recent decades. We use matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese firms position themselves in global production lines and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481098
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Give Credit Where Credit Is Due : Tracing Value Added in Global Production Chains
Koopman, Robert - 2010
This paper provides both a conceptual framework for decomposing a country's gross exports into value-added components by source and a new bilateral database on value-added trade. Our parsimonious framework integrates all previous measures of vertical specialization and value-added trade in the...
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On the Divergence between CPI and PPI as Inflation Gauges : The Role of Supply Chains
Wei, Shang-Jin - 2018
in tandem within a given country around the world, but start to diverge after 2000. Understanding the source of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453395
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Demand for Value Added and Value-Added Exchange Rates
Bems, Rudolfs - 2015
We examine the role of cross-border input linkages in governing how international relative price changes influence demand for domestic value added. We define a novel value-added real effective exchange rate (REER), which aggregates bilateral value-added price changes, and link this REER to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457597
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Global Supply Chains, Currency Undervaluation, and Firm Protectionist Demands
Jensen, J. Bradford - 2013
We examine firm participation in global supply chains to help explain a puzzling decline in protectionist demands in the U.S. despite increased import competition and ongoing currency undervaluation. To explain firm responses to undervaluation, we rely on advances in the international trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459423