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Why Does Environmental Policy in Representative Democracies Tend to Be Inadequate? A Preliminary Public Choice Analysis
Kollmann, Andrea - 2010
, traditional and green interest groups and bureaucracies) that a shift towards an eco-social market economy is essential for … sustainable growth. Nevertheless, market-based instruments have not been implemented satisfactorily in environmental policy yet … players' behavior is analyzed in order to show that their incentives for implementing market-based instruments in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136587
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Why does Environmental Policy in Representative Democracies Tend to be Inadequate? A Preliminary Public Choice Analysis
Kollmann, Andrea; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2010
, traditional and green interest groups and bureaucracies) that a shift towards an eco-social market economy is essential for … sustainable growth. Nevertheless, market-based instruments have not been implemented satisfactorily in environmental policy yet … players’ behavior is analyzed in order to show that their incentives for implementing market-based instruments in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727290
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Formal Contracts, Relational Contracts, and the Threat-Point Effect
Itoh, Hideshi - 2011
Can formal contracts help resolving the holdup problem? We address this important question by studying the holdup problem in repeated transactions between a seller and a buyer in which the seller can make relation-specific investments in each period. In contrast to previous findings, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121866
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Formal Contracts, Relational Contracts, and the Threat-Point Effect
Itoh, Hideshi; Morita, Hodaka - CESifo - 2011
Can formal contracts help resolving the holdup problem? We address this important question by studying the holdup problem in repeated transactions between a seller and a buyer in which the seller can make relation-specific investments in each period. In contrast to previous findings, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009228616
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Courts in a Transition Economy : Case Disposition and the Quantity-Quality Tradeoff in Bulgaria
Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina P. - 2015
. We draw on a new court-level panel dataset from Bulgaria to study the determinants of court case disposition and to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024366
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Mergers and Partial Ownership
Foros, Øystein - 2010
In this paper we compare the profitability of a merger to the profitability of a partial ownership arrangement and find that partial ownership arrangements can be more profitable for the acquiring and acquired firm because they can result in a greater dampening of competition. We also derive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148773
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What Drives the Global Land Rush?
Arezki, Rabah - 2013
This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed indicators of agro-ecological suitability in areas with low population density as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092012
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What Drives the Global Land Rush?
Arezki, Rabah; Deininger, Klaus; Selod, Harris - CESifo - 2011
This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed indicators of agro-ecological suitability in areas with low population density as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368564
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Oil and Civil Conflict : On and Off (Shore)
Andersen, Jørgen Juel - 2017
We reconsider the relationship between oil and conflict, focusing on the location of oil resources. In a panel of 132 countries over the period 1962-2009, we show that oil windfalls increase the probability of conflict in onshore-rich countries, while they decrease this probability in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960998
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The Green Paradox and Learning-by-Doing in the Renewable Energy Sector
Nachtigall, Daniel - 2014
The green paradox conveys the idea that climate policies may have unintended side effects when taking into account the reaction of fossil fuel suppliers. In particular, carbon taxes that will be implemented in the future induce resource owners to extract more rapidly which increases present...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050467