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Private Provision of a Complementary Public Good

Schmidtke, Richard - 2006

For several years, an increasing number of firms have been investing in Open Source Software (OSS). While improvements in such a non-excludable public good cannot be appropriated, companies can benefit indirectly in a complementary proprietary segment. We study this incentive for investment in...

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Power Over Prosecutors Corrupts Politicians : Cross Country Evidence Using a New Indicator

van Aaken, Anne - 2008

It is hypothesized that prosecution agencies that are dependent on the executive have less incentives to prosecute crimes committed by government members which, in turn, increases their incentives to commit such crimes. Here, this hypothesis is put to an empirical test focusing on a particular...

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The Economics of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism : A Survey (Part II)

Schneider, Friedrich - 2010

This survey provides an in-depth analysis of existing research on the economic analysis of terrorism and counter-terrorist measures. First the existing evidence on the causes of terrorism is analyzed, then we consider the evidence of the consequences of terrorism and we demonstrate why it is...

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The Economics of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism : A Survey (Part I)

Schneider, Friedrich - 2010

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The Spread of Anti-Trafficking Policies - Evidence from a New Index

Cho, Seo-Young; Dreher, Axel; Neumayer, Eric - 2021

We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...

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Improving Global Public Goods Supply through Conditional Transfers - The International Adaptation Transfer Riddle

Pittel, Karen - 2013

In order to overcome the underprovision of global public goods various different policy approaches have been proposed. In the climate policy arena, international transfers are frequently seen as an effective means to raise the provision of the global public good ‘climate change mitigation'....

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Making World Heritage Truly Global : The Culture Certificate Scheme

Frey, Bruno S. - 2014

Culture has attributes of a global public good that needs to be preserved for mankind as a whole. World Culture … Certificates are proposed to efficiently preserve World Heritage. The community of nations has to agree on the Global Heritage List … and how much each nation is to contribute to that purpose. Each World Heritage site conserved is acknowledged through the …

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The Geography of Linguistic Diversity and the Provision of Public Goods

Desmet, Klaus - 2017

This paper theoretically analyzes and empirically investigates the importance of local interaction between individuals of different linguistic groups for the provision of public goods at the national level. Depending on whether local interaction mitigates or reinforces antagonism towards other...

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Forging a Global Environmental Agreement Through Trade Sanctions on Free Riders?

Eichner, Thomas - 2015

This paper studies the formation of self-enforcing global environmental agreements in a world economy with …

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World Heritage List : Does it Make Sense?

Frey, Bruno S. - 2010

The UNESCO World Heritage List contains the 900 most treasured Sites of humanity's culture and landscapes. The World …

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