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Gersbach, Hans - 2015

We propose a development-compatible refunding system designed to mitigate climate change. Industrial countries pay an initial fee into a global fund. Each country chooses its national carbon tax. Part of the global fund is refunded to developing and industrial countries, in proportion to the...

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Climate Policy and Development

Gersbach, Hans; Hummel, Noemi - CESifo - 2009

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Should the individual voting records of central bankers be published?

Gersbach, Hans; Hahn, Volker - 2001

We examine whether it is socially beneficial for the individual voting records of central bank council members to be published when the general public is unsure about central bankers' efficiency and central bankers are aiming for re-election. We show that publication is initially harmful since...

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Voting transparency and conflicting interests in central bank councils

Gersbach, Hans; Hahn, Volker - 2001

This paper examines whether it is socially desirable for the individual voting records of central bank council members to be published when central bankers' preferences differ. We show that the misrepresentation of their preferences is not advantageous for central bankers although central...

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Modeling Two Macro Policy Instruments - Interest Rates and Aggregate Capital Requirements

Gersbach, Hans - 2013

We present a simple neoclassical model to explore how an aggregate bank-capital requirement can be used as a … macroeconomic policy tool and how this additional tool interacts with monetary policy. Aggregate bank-capital requirements should be … banker. Second, setting aggregate bank-capital requirements is separated from monetary policy …

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Sustainable Climate Treaties

Gersbach, Hans - 2017

initial fees that are neutral to tax payers and international capital markets …

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Information Aggregation in Democratic Mechanisms

Britz, Volker - 2016

We examine whether and how democratic procedures can achieve socially desirable public good provision in the presence of profound uncertainty about the benefits of public goods, i.e., when citizens are able to identify the distribution of benefits only if they aggregate their private...

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Households, Markets and Public Choice

Gersbach, Hans - 2014

We develop a model that combines competitive exchange of private commodities across endogenously formed groups with public good provision and global collective decisions. There is a tension between local and global collective decisions. In particular, we show that group formation and collective...

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Democratic Provision of Divisible Public Goods

Gersbach, Hans - 2010

In this paper we examine the potential of democratic constitutions for the provision of divisible public goods in a large economy. Our main insights are as follows: When aggregate shocks are absent, the combination of the following rules yields first-best allocations: a supermajority rule, equal...

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General Equilibrium with Multi-Member Households and Production

Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans H. - 2021

We consider firms and multi-member households operating in a competitive market environment. Households are endowed with resources (commodity bundles) and shares of firm ownership. Household members are characterized by individual preferences, possibly with intra-household consumption...

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