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Climate Change in a Public Goods Game: Investment Decision in Mitigation versus Adaptation

Hasson, Reviva; Löfgren, Åsa; Visser, Martine - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

We use behavioral and experimental economics to study a particular aspect of the economics of climate change: the potential tradeoff between countries’ investments in mitigation versus adaptation. While mitigation of greenhouse gases can be viewed as a public good, adaptation to climate change...

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To Trade or Not to Trade: Firm-Level Analysis of Emissions Trading in Santiago, Chile

Coria, Jessica; Löfgren, Åsa; Sterner, Thomas - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

Whether tradable permits are appropriate for use in transition and developing economies—given special social and cultural circumstances, such as the lack of institutions and lack of expertise with marketbased policies—is much debated. We conducted interviews and surveyed a sample of firms...

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Unequal Property Rights: A study of land right inequalities in Rwanda

Isaksson, Ann-Sofie - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011

effective land rights in Rwanda. The results of empirical estimations drawing on data on the land tenure arrangements of over 5 …,000 Rwandan households indeed suggest systematic within-country inequalities in land rights, with households headed by women or … of variation in tenure arrangements, but also exist when comparing households cultivating plots under similar land tenure …

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Natural Disasters and Government Turnover

Ahlerup, Pelle - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

Natural disasters have been linked to both violent conflict and, in some settings, poor economic growth, but do they also drive government parties out of office? We study gov- ernment turnover in a global sample of more than 200 elections to the executive. Natural disasters are associated with...

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Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: The Market for Lemons

Dimico, Arcangelo; Isopi, Alessia; Olsson, Ola - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

production of orange and lemon. This result contrasts recent work that emphasizes the importance of land reforms and a broadening …

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Natural Resource Dependency and Quality of Government

Anthonsen, Mette; Löfgren, Åsa; Nilsson, Klas - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

This paper introduces quality of government rather than regime type as dependent variable in studies of the political effects of natural resources. It consists of two parts. First, it theorizes the role of fiscal dependency of oil and gas rents in relation to three different dimensions of...

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Determinants of Institutional Quality in Sub-Saharan African Countries

Siba, Eyerusalem G. - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

In this study, a number of factors have been considered as potential determinants of institutional quality in Sub- Saharan African countries. The empirical analysis has shown that historical factors such as state legitimacy determine the quality of current institutions in the region. Foreign aid...

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Institutions and their Measures: A Black Box of Goodies

Hansson, Gustav - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2006

The use of institutional measures in empirical work is widespread, but the question of what these measures actually capture and how they are constructed is something that is not given enough attention. Institutions and their measures are therefore like a “black box of goodies”: Something...

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Compassion and cost: The dual role of reference pricing

Yesim Köksal, Miyase - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011

Providing health insurance involves a trade-off between the benefits from risk spreading and the costs due to moral hazard. Focusing on pharmaceuticals consumption, this paper examines theoretically whether reference pricing, requiring individuals to pay the price difference if, in this case,...

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REFERENCE PRICING - Making Parallel Trade in Pharmaceuticals Work

Yesim Köksal, Miyase - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

Should governments allow parallel trade of pharmaceuticals? There is no clear-cut answer to this question, since parallel trade causes some public concerns. One is that prices might not decrease much in the home country because consumers are price insensitive as a result of medical insurance....

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