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Prevention and Mitigation of Epidemics : Biodiversity Conservation and Confinement Policies

Augeraud-Véron, Emmanuelle - 2020

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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Economic Analysis, Sustainability and Environmental Commons

Musu, Ignazio - 2013

issues: climate change and biodiversity. Involvement of governments and a reference framework provided by intergovernmental …

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The (In)Elasticity of Moral Ignorance

Serra-Garcia, Marta - 2020

Ignorance enables individuals to act immorally. This is well known in policy circles, where there is keen interest in lowering moral ignorance. In this paper, we study the (in)elasticity of moral ignorance, with respect to monetary incentives, social norms messages and moral context. We propose...

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Weber Revisited : The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Nationalism

Kersting, Felix - 2020

We revisit Max Weber's hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development. We show that nationalism is crucial to both, the interpretation of Weber's Protestant Ethic and empirical tests thereof. For late nineteenth-century Prussia we reject Weber's suggestion that Protestantism...

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Can Moral Reminders Curb Corruption? Evidence from an Online Classroom Experiment

Claus, Corinna; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Krieger, Tim - 2022

Using an incentivized online classroom experiment, we assess the effectiveness of deontological vs. consequentialist moral reminders. Participants were told that they are the responsible public servant for acquiring a Covid-19 vaccine, providing them with the opportunity to generate some extra...

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The Economic Approach to Political Borders

Spolaore, Enrico - 2022

This paper overviews theoretical and empirical contributions that study political borders from an economic perspective. It reviews theories of the number and size of nations focused on the trade-off between economies of scale in public-good provision and heterogeneity of preferences over public...

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The Fiscal Contract up Close: Experimental Evidence from Mexico City

Brockmeyer, Anne; Garfias, Francisco; Suárez Serrato, … - 2024

Can the provision of public goods strengthen the fiscal capacity of governments in developing countries and move them toward an equilibrium of widespread tax compliance? We present evidence of the impact of local public infrastructure on tax compliance, leveraging a large public investment...

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Opacity in Bargaining Over Public Good Provision

Lamprecht, Julian; Thum, Marcel P. - 2022

We consider ultimatum bargaining over the provision of a public good. Offer-maker and responder can delegate their decisions to agents, whose actual decision rules are opaque. We show that the responder will benefit from strategic opacity, even with bilateral delegation. The incomplete...

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Citizen Preferences and the Architecture of Government

Bourgeon, Jean-Marc - 2018

We consider a country whose government provides a bundle of goods and services through a multi-tier administrative organization. We compare the optimal architectures of public governance (i.e. the division of the state into several tiers, the distribution of services among them, their number of...

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All or Nothing : State Capacity and Optimal Public Goods Provision

Bierbrauer, Felix - 2018

We study the provision of public goods. Different public goods can be bundled provided there is enough capacity, i.e. resources to pay for all the public goods in the bundle. The analysis focuses on the all-or-nothing-mechanism: Expand provision as much as resource feasible if no one vetoes -...

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