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Optimal Fishery with Coastal Catch
Uecker, Hannes - 2016
In many spatial resource models it is assumed that the agent is able to determine the harvesting activity over the complete spatial domain. However, agents frequently have only access to a resource at particular locations at which the moving biomass, such as fish or game, may be caught or...
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Voodoo versus Fishing Committees : The Role of Traditional and Contemporary Institutions in Fisheries Management
Briones Alonso, Elena - 2015
We study the co-existence of two community-based institutions for fisheries management in Benin: a traditional institution embedded in the Voodoo religion and a recent secular institution in the form of fishing committees. Using household survey data on fishing activities, we find that rules of...
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Harvesting a Remote Renewable Resource
Upmann, Thorsten - 2018
In standard models of spatial harvesting, the resource is distributed over the complete domain and the agent is able to control the harvesting activity everywhere all the time. In some cases though, it is more realistic to assume that the resource is located at a single point in space and that...
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What Should Fiscal Councils Do?
Calmfors, Lars - 2011
The paper analyses theoretically what role fiscal councils could play and surveys empirically the activities of existing councils. Case studies of the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council and the UK Office for Budget Responsibility are done. It is concluded that fiscal councils should be advisory,...
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The Diversity of Debt Crises in Europe
Stein, Jerome L. - 2011
The foreign debts of the European countries are at the core of the current crises. Generally, the crises are attributed to government budget deficits in excess of the values stated in the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP)/Maastricht treaty. Proposals for reform generally involve increasing the...
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The Positive Border Effect of EU Integration
Brakman, Steven - 2011
, regions, or countries. The enlargement of the EU or the introduction of the euro, however, can be looked upon as integration … that go along with EU integration along the border. Both at the urban and regional level, we find a beneficial influence of … the EU integration process as measured by the growth in population share along the integration borders, leading to an …
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The Impact of Fiscal Rules on Public Finances : Theory and Empirical Evidence for the Euro Area
Marneffe, Wim - 2011
This paper presents a review of the most significant fiscal rules policymakers can choose from. The insights from this review are then applied to the current budgetary situation of the European Union. In the European Union, the supranational Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) should provide the...
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Channel Systems : Why is There a Positive Spread?
Berentsen, Aleksander - 2010
An increasing number of central banks implement monetary policy via two standing facilities: a lending facility and a deposit facility. In this paper we show that it is socially optimal to implement a non-zero interest rate spread. We prove this result in a dynamic general equilibrium model...
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Short and Long-Run Behaviour of Long-Term Sovereign Bond Yields
Afonso, António - 2010
This study assesses the short and long-run behaviour of long-term sovereign bond yields in OECD countries, for the period 1973-2008. We employ a dynamic panel approach to reflect financial and economic integration, and to increase the performance and accuracy of the tests. Given the existence of...
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Partial Harmonization of Corporate Taxes in an Asymmetric Repeated Game Setting
Itaya, Jun-ichi - 2010
This paper investigates the conditions under which partial harmonization for capital taxation is sustained in a repeated interactions model of tax competition when there are three heterogenous countries with respect to their capital endowments. We show that regardless of the structure of the...
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