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Technological Sovereignty as Ability, Not Autarky
March, Christoph; Schieferdecker, Ina - 2021
Aspirations towards technological sovereignty increasingly pervade the political debate. Yet, an ambiguous definition … globalization. We develop a competence-based definition of technological sovereignty, which puts innovation policy at the core of … fulfilling sovereignty aspirations. Moreover, we show how our definition realigns technological sovereignty with international …
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Property Rights to the World's (Linear) Ocean Fisheries in Customary International Law
Barrett, Scott - 2023
enclosure for nearshore fisheries. For highly migratory and offshore fisheries, enclosure is inefficient, and customary law …
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Sea Surface Temperature and Tuna Catch in the Eastern Pacific Ocean Under Climate Change
Mediodia, Hanny John - 2020
potential to impact tuna fisheries. This paper theoretically models and then applies the production function approach to … fisheries. By considering area, species and fishing methods, we provide spatially and biologically relevant information for the ….e. logarithmic and quadratic) relationship between the SST and the carrying capacity of tuna fisheries …
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International Agreements, Economic Sovereignty and Exit
Richardson, Martin; Stähler, Frank - 2018
We develop a model in which it is uncertainty about the future domestic policy environment that both makes international cooperation attractive and induces the possibility of a nation reneging on such an international agreement. We show, in a fairly general setting in which the likelihood of...
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Voodoo versus Fishing Committees: The Role of Traditional and Contemporary Institutions in Fischeries Management
Alonso, Elena Briones; Houssa, Romain; Verpoorten, Marijke - 2015
We study the co-existence of two community-based institutions for fisheries management in Benin: a traditional …
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A Probabilistic Solution to High-Dimensional Continuous-Time Macro and Finance Models
Huang, Ji - 2023
This paper introduces the probabilistic formulation of continuous-time economic models: forward stochastic differential equations (SDE) govern the dynamics of backward-looking variables, and backward SDEs capture that of forward-looking variables. Deep learning streamlines the search for the...
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Outside Options and Worker Motivation
Ahammer, Alexander; Fahn, Matthias; Stiftinger, Flora - 2023
We study the relationship between outside options and workers’ motivation to exert effort. We evaluate changes in outside options arising from age and experience cutoffs in the Austrian unemployment insurance (UI) system, and use absenteeism as a proxy for worker effort. Results indicate that...
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Competition and Career Advancement
Johnsen, Julian; Ku, Hyejin; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023
In standard promotion tournaments, contestants are ranked based on their output or productivity. We argue that workers’ career progression may also depend on their relative rankings in dimensions a priori unrelated to their job performance, such as visibility or in-person presence. Such...
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Precautionary Savings, Loss Aversion, and Risk : Theory and Evidence
Dhami, Sanjit; Hajimoladarvish, Narges; Georgalos, … - 2023
of savings, precautionary savings, loss aversion, and risk. We provide the relevant theory, followed by empirical tests …
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Can Competition Reduce Conflict?
Garg, Teevrat; Gennaioli, Caterina; Lovo, Stefania; … - 2023
We examine the effect of inter-group fiscal competition on within-group violent conflict. Using a triple difference design, we exploit exogenous variation in the degree to which villages in sub-districts compete for public funds. We find that higher competition between villages reduces conflict...
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