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Conflict, Evolution, Hegemony, and the Power of the State
Levine, David; Modica, Salvatore - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
In a model of evolution driven by conflict between societies more powerful states have an advantage. When the influence of outsiders is small we show that this results in a tendency to hegemony. In a simple example in which institutions differ in their "exclusiveness" we find that these...
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The Promise of Beijing: Evaluating the Impact of the 2008 Olympic Games on Air Quality
Chen, Yuyu; Jin, Ginger Zhe; Kumar, Naresh; Shi, Guang - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
To prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games, China adopted a number of radical measures to improve air quality. Using officially reported air pollution index (API) from 2000 to 2009, we show that these measures improved the API of Beijing during and after the Games, but 60% of the effect faded away by...
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Discontinuous Behavioral Responses to Recycling Laws and Plastic Water Bottle Deposits
Viscusi, W Kip; Huber, Joel; Bell, Jason; Cecot, Caroline - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
and bottle deposits have greater recycling rates. Consistent with recycling being a threshold response, the efficacy of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008628322
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Information Disclosure Policy: Do States' Data Processing Efforts Help More than the Information Disclosure Itself?
Bae, Hyunhoe; Wilcoxen, Peter; Popp, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) was expected to reduce health risks stemming from emissions of hazardous chemicals by increasing public pressure on polluters. However, it is a massive and complex dataset, requiring significant expertise to interpret in its raw form. State governments have...
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Valuing Mortality Risk Reductions: Progress and Challenges
Hammitt, James K.; Cropper, Maureen L.; Robinson, Lisa A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
The value of mortality risk reduction is an important component of the benefits of environmental policies. In recent years, the number, scope, and quality of valuation studies have increased dramatically. Revealed-preference studies of wage compensation for occupational risks, on which analysts...
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The Problem of the Commons: Still Unsettled After 100 Years
Stavins, Robert Norman - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
The problem of the commons is more important to our lives and thus more central to economics than a century ago when Katharine Coman led off the first issue of the American Economic Review. As the U.S. and other economies have grown, the carrying-capacity of the planet -- in regard to natural...
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The Hidden Benefits of Control: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
Landry, Craig Elliott; Lange, Andreas; list, john; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
An important dialogue between theorists and experimentalists over the past few decades has raised the study of the interaction of psychological and economic incentives from academic curiosity to a bona fide academic field. One recent area of study within this genre that has sparked interest and...
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Public Goods Agreements with Other-Regarding Preferences
Kolstad, Charles D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
concern shifted to voluntary provision of public goods; in the 1990's, the literature on coalition formation for public goods … tend to reduce this threshold for individual contributions. We also find that Charness-Rabin preferences reduce the … equilibrium size of a coalition of agents formed to provide the public good. In contrast to much of the literature, we treat the …
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Post-Durban Climate Policy Architecture Based on Linkage of Cap-and-Trade Systems
Stavins, Robert Norman; Ranson, Matthew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The outcome of the December 2011 United Nations climate negotiations in Durban, South Africa, provides an important new opportunity to move toward an international climate policy architecture that is capable of delivering broad international participation and significant global CO2 emissions...
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The Promise and Problems of Pricing Carbon: Theory and Experience
Aldy, Joseph E.; Stavins, Robert Norman - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Because of the global commons nature of climate change, international cooperation among nations will likely be necessary for meaningful action at the global level. At the same time, it will inevitably be up to the actions of sovereign nations to put in place policies that bring about meaningful...
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