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This paper explores the effects of fiscal competition on local land use. A theoretical analysis considers the tradeoff faced by a local government deciding about the amount of land made available for commercial or residential uses, when its expansion has adverse effects on the quality of life....
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species forming a food chain. The size of habitat determines the diversity and abundance of species. That biodiversity …
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This paper presents a first model integrating the relation between biodiversity loss and zoonose pandemic risks in a … preserve a greater quantity of biodiversity, thus decreasing the probability of a pandemic occurring, and second (mitigation … biodiversity conservation is shown to be more relevant for more “forward looking” societies, with a small discount rate and a high …
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This project analyzes how a principal can motivate an agent to conserve rather than exploit a depletable resource. This dynamic problem is relevant for tropical deforestation as well as for other environmental problems. It is shown that the smaller is the agent's discount factor (e.g., because...
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behaviour of investors and on Bitcoin price co-movements. Further, the probability of Bitcoin exchanges shutdowns is higher in …
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This paper studies how the depreciation of sterling following the Brexit referendum affected consumer prices in the United Kingdom. Our identification strategy uses input-output linkages to account for heterogeneity in exposure to import costs across product groups. We show that, after the...
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We use perturbation methods to derive a rule for the optimal risk-adjusted social cost of carbon (SCC) that incorporates the effects of uncertainties associated with climate and the economy from a calibrated DSGE model. We allow for different aversions to risk and intertemporal fluctuations,...
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This paper reports the results from a statistical analysis of pharmaceutical price negotiations in Germany, where the …' launch strategy (freely chosen first year price) still has a major impact on pricing while the impact of the additional …
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price regulations. Consumers demand stricter fuel price regulations to provide transparency about the current price level … and to protect them from sudden price fluctuations. Such regulations are already in place in several countries, but … whether they indeed help lower the overall fuel price level is unclear. In this paper, we study the effect of Austria’s Fuel …
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In recent years, a significant problem with the carbon credit market has been the higher than initially predicted price … fluctuations in prices. In this paper, we examine the dynamic auction design and propose a method to curb price volatility through … a flexible supply cap. The equilibrium analysis shows that modifying the cap on per period supply can decrease price …
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