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The Demands for Environmental Regulation and for Trade in the Presence of Private Mitigation
Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - CESifo - 2008
role in the determination of collective choices with respect to the regulation of the environment and of trade. We conclude … by drawing out the implications of the analysis for the study of the political economy of the environment-trade …We study the nature of individual demands for environmental regulation and for trade openness in the general …
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Litigation and the Timing of Settlement : Evidence from Commercial Disputes
Grajzl, Peter; Zajc, Katarina - 2021
Although an overwhelming proportion of all legal disputes end in settlement, the determinants of the timing of settlement remain empirically underexplored. We draw on a novel dataset on the duration of commercial disputes in Slovenia to study how the timing of settlement is shaped by the stages...
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Dismissal Disputes and Endogenous Sorting
Garibaldi, Pietro; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2021
Dismissal disputes occur mostly in recessions and often lead to long and costly contract termination procedures. This paper investigates how dispute procedures may affect the job-matching process. First we present a simple accounting framework that corresponds with general dismissal legislation,...
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Awareness Reduces Racial Bias
Pope, Devin G.; Price, Joseph; Wolfers, Justin - 2021
Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315627
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Labour Disputes and the Game of Legal Representation
Fraisse, Henri - 2021
This paper explores the prisoner’s dilemma that may result when workers and firms are involved in labour disputes and must decide whether to hire a lawyer to be represented at trial. Using a representative data set of labour disputes in the UK and a large population of French unfair dismissal...
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Optimal Litigation Strategies with Signaling and Screening
Choné, Philippe; Linnemer, Laurent - 2021
investment decision, the probability of trial may (locally) decrease with case strength. Overinvestment generates inefficient …
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Behavior Under Social Pressure : Empty Italian Stadiums and Referee Bias
Pettersson-Lidbom, Per; Priks, Mikael - 2021
This paper studies how social pressure affects the behavior of soccer referees. We make use of an attractive source of exogenous variation in the number of spectators at matches. Due to recent hooligan violence, the Italian government has implemented a regulation that forces some soccer teams to...
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How Large are Global Energy Subsidies?
Coady, David P. - 2016
This paper estimates fossil fuel subsidies and the economic and environmental benefits from reforming them, focusing mostly on a broad notion of subsidies arising when consumer prices are below supply costs plus environmental costs and general consumption taxes. Subsidies are $4.9 trillion...
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Pricing the Ecosystem and Taxing Ecosystem Services : A General Equilibrium Approach
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rudiger - 2021
In an integrated dynamic general equilibrium model of the economy and the ecosystem humans and wildlife species compete for land and prey biomass. We introduce a competitive allocation mechanism in both submodels such that economic prices and ecosystem prices guide the allocation in the economy...
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Economic Challenges in the Anthropocene
Musu, Ignazio - CESifo - 2013
countries, compatible with the sustainability of the processes concerning the Earth system. Mainly by focusing on the energy-environment …
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