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Matching as a cure for underprovision of voluntary public good supply: Analysis and an example

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Cornes, Richard; Rübbelke, Dirk - 2011

Matching mechanisms are regarded as an important instrument to bring about Pareto optimal allocations in a public good … interior matching equilibrium, however, emerges only under very special conditions. But we show in this note that corner …

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Potentially harmful international cooperation on global public good provision

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Cornes, Richard; Rübbelke, Dirk - 2012

-called matching approaches. Matching schemes are regarded as providing a promising approach to overcome undersupply of public goods … like climate protection. The functioning of matching mechanisms in a setting with an incomplete agreement, i.e. a contract … by analyzing incomplete matching agreements in the context of international climate protection. We analyse their effect …

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Is monetary policy in the Eurozone less effective than in the US?

De Grauwe, Paul; Storti, Cláudia Costa - 2005

There is a wide consensus that the existence of structural rigidities in the Eurozone reduces the effectiveness of the ECB's monetary policies. In order to test this ?ECB-handicap? hypothesis, we perform a meta-analysis of the effects of monetary policies in the US and the Eurozone countries....

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The effects of monetary policy : a meta-analysis

De Grauwe, Paul; Costa Storti, Cláudia - 2004

In this paper we perform a meta-analysis of the effects of monetary policies on output and prices. We use a sample of published papers on the effects of monetary policies in different countries. There is a large variation in the estimated effects of monetary policies on output and prices. We...

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Pareto Improvement through Unilateral Matching of Public Good Contributions: The Role of Commitment

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Cornes, Richard; Peters, Wolfgang; … - 2014

When providing public goods through voluntary contributions, a donor may introduce unilateral matching in order to … reduce underprovision of the public good and thus inefficiency. By itself, however, matching benefits the donor but harms the …

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Equal sacrifice and fair burden sharing in a public goods economy

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Peters, Wolfgang - 2007

Applying a willingness to pay approach known from contingent valuation in environmental economics, we develop an ordinally based measure for the size of individual sacrifice that is connected with an agent's contribution to a public good. We construct a selection mechanism that picks the unique...

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Exchange rates dynamics in a target zone: a heterogeneous expectations approach

Bauer, Christian; De Grauwe, Paul; Reitz, Stefan - 2007

The target zone model of Krugman (1991) has failed empirically. In this paper, we develop a model of the exchange rate with heterogeneous agents in a free floating and a target zone regime. We show that this simple model mimics the empirical puzzles of exchange rates: excessive volatility, fat...

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Discounting and welfare analysis over time: choosing the [eta]

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Schumacher, Jan - 2008

Based on the Ramsey equation and an ethically motivated rejection of pure utility time discount, the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change concentrates on the use of the elasticity of marginal utility ç in the intergenerational social welfare function. We support this position by...

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Discounting the long-distant future: a simple explanation for the Weitzman-Gollier-puzzle

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Schumacher, Jan - 2008

In this paper, we reconsider the debate on Weitzman's (1998) suggestion to discount the long-run future at the lowest possible rate, referring to Gollier (2004) and Hepburn & Groom (2007). We show that, while Weitzman's use of the present value approach may indeed seem questionable, its outcome,...

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How changing prudence and risk aversion affect optimal saving

Bauer, Christian; Buchholz, Wolfgang - 2008

We show how optimal saving in a two-period model is affected when prudence and risk aversion of the underlying utility function change. Increasing prudence alone will induce higher savings only if, for certain combinations of the interest rate and the pure time discount rate, there is...

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