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Coaseian Biodiversity Conservation. Who Benefits?

Eichner, Thomas - 2017

We consider a world economy, in which the global public good 'biodiversity' is positively correlated with that share of …-to-pay for biodiversity conservation is positive in 'rich' developed countries (North), but very low in 'poor' developing … welfare when the North financially supports biodiversity conservation in the South – as stipulated in the Convention on …

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Biodiversity and Geography

Rauscher, Michael - 2014

looks at optimal policies of biodiversity conservation. The subject of the paper is natural biodiversity, which is …

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The Cost of Endangered Species Protection : Evidence from Auctions for Natural Resources

Bošković, Branko - 2016

This paper examines the effect that endangered species regulation has on natural resource development. Specifically, we use data from competitive auctions to estimate the effect that land-use regulation protecting endangered caribou in the Canadian province of Alberta has on the price producers...

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Agricultural Trade, Biodiversity Effects and Food Price Volatility

Bellora, Cecilia; Bourgeon, Jean-Marc - 2021

Biotic factors such as pests create biodiversity effects that increase production risks and decrease land productivity … incomplete under free trade because of the decrease in land productivity. Pesticides allow farmers to reduce these biodiversity … biodiversity effects …

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A Micro-Level 'Consumer Approach' to Species Population Dynamics

Christiaans, Thomas; Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rudiger - 2021

In this paper we develop a micro ecosystem model whose basic entities are representative organisms which behave as if maximizing their net offspring under constraints. Net offspring is increasing in prey biomass intake, declining in the loss of own biomass to predators and Allee's Law applies....

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Monitoring, Sanctions and Front-Loading of Job Search in a Non-Stationary Model

Cockx, Bart - 2011

We develop and estimate a non-stationary job search model to evaluate a scheme that monitors job search effort and sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the unemployed to front-load search effort prior to...

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Expected Net Present Value, Expected Net Future Value, and the Ramsey Rule

Gollier, Christian - 2013

Weitzman (1998) showed that when future interest rates are uncertain, using the expected net present value implies a term structure of discount rates that is decreasing to the smallest possible interest rate. On the contrary, using the expected net future value criterion implies an increasing...

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One Chance in a Million : Altruism and the Bone Marrow Registry

Bergstrom, Theodore C. - 2007

Transplants of donated stem cells save the lives of many patients with blood diseases. Donation is somewhat painful, but rarely has lasting adverse effects. Patients can accept transplants only from donors with compatible immune systems. Those lacking a sibling match must seek donations from the...

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Moretti, Luca - 2017

The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using two original micro data sets. While both countries share a number of similarities, including an extensive vocational education and training (VET) system, and a common border,...

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Efficiency-Morality Trade-Offs in Repugnant Transactions : A Choice Experiment

Elias, Julio - 2016

Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors. Preferences were heterogeneous, ranging from...

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