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Sustainability of an Economy Relying on Two Reproducible Assets

Cairns, Robert D. - 2017

Evaluating the sustainability of a society requires a system of shadow or accounting values derived from the sustainability objective. As a first step toward the derivation of such shadow values for a maximin objective, this paper studies an economy composed of two reproducible assets, each...

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Generous Sustainability

Gerlagh, Reyer - 2014

I define “generous sustainability” as a combination of two conditions: neither instantaneous maximin income nor attainable maximin income should decrease over time. I provide a formal definition and study applications to an AK economy, a Ramsey economy, and a Climate Economy. Generosity is...

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Sustainable Climate Treaties

Gersbach, Hans - 2017

We examine long-run treaties for mitigating climate change. Countries pay an initial fee into a global fund that is invested in long-run assets. In each period, part of the fund is distributed among the participating countries in relation to the emission reductions they have achieved in this...

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Democratic Tipping Points

Ciccone, Antonio - 2018

I examine whether transitory events can tip the scales against authoritarian regimes and lead to persistent democratization. I think of situations where this is a possibility as democratic tipping points. The transitory events I focus on are rainfall shocks in the most agricultural countries in...

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A Ricardian Analysis of the Impact of Climate Change on European Agriculture

Van Passel, Steven - 2014

This research estimates the impact of climate on European agriculture using a continental scale Ricardian analysis …

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Why is Measured Productivity so Low in Agriculture?

Herrendorf, Berthold - 2015

In poor countries, labor productivity in agriculture is considerably lower than in the rest of the economy. We assess … between the marginal value products of agriculture and non-agriculture are considerably smaller when measured through wages … than through labor productivities. Third, labor productivity in agriculture is severely mis-measured in the US …

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VAT and Agriculture : Lessons from Europe

Cnossen, Sijbren - 2017

Farmers are often exempted from VAT for administrative and political reasons. But this means that the VAT on their inputs cannot be ‘washed out' through the tax deduction/credit mechanism. To compensate farmers for the uncompensated VAT on inputs, the EU has devised a flat-rate scheme that...

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Public Debt Sustainability and Defaults

Guillard, Michel - 2017

We offer a new methodology for the assessment of public debt sustainability in a stochastic economy when sovereign default taken into account. The default threshold differs from the no-Ponzi condition and depends on the post-default debt recovery rule. We distinguish sustainability and...

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A Market Mechanism for Sustainable and Efficient Resource Use Under Uncertainty

Quaas, Martin F. - 2017

Sustainability and efficiency are potentially conflicting social objectives in natural resource management. We propose a market mechanism to allocate use rights over a stochastic resource to private managers. The mechanism endogenously determines the maximal tenure length guaranteeing that the...

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Population Aging, Social Security and Fiscal Limits

Heer, Burkhard - 2018

We study the sustainability of pension systems using a life-cycle model with distortionary taxation that sets an upper limit to the real value of tax revenues. This limit implies an endogenous threshold dependency ratio, i.e. a point in the cross-section distribution of the population beyond...

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