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Benefit-Cost Analysis of Environmental Projects: A Plethora of Systematic Biases
Graves, Philip E. - CESifo - 2010
There are many reasons to suspect that benefit-cost analysis applied to environmental policies will result in policy decisions that will reject those environmental policies. The important question, of course, is whether those rejections are based on proper science. The present paper explores...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511597
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Benefit-Cost Analysis of Environmental Projects : A Plethora of Systematic Biases
Graves, Philip E. - 2013
There are many reasons to suspect that benefit-cost analysis applied to environmental policies will result in policy decisions that will reject those environmental policies. The important question, of course, is whether those rejections are based on proper science. The present paper explores...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094430
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Economic Analysis, Sustainability and Environmental Commons
Musu, Ignazio - 2021
When confronted with market weaknesses and failures determining sustainability problems for environmental common-pool resources, economic analysis has proposed government intervention as the only alternative available. Elinor Ostrom showed that this dichotomy between market and government is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315644
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Inherited Wealth and Demographic Aging
Onder, Harun - 2016
The role of inherited wealth in modern economies has increasingly become under scrutiny. This study presents one of the … share of total wealth in a given economy. Thus, aging is not likely to explain a recent surge in this share in some advanced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985794
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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap : Evidence from Italian Provinces
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2021
We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the …, we find that family structure is a driver of the education gender gap, with a higher female to male enrollment rate ratio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315695
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From Fossil Fuels to Renewables : The Role of Electricity Storage
Lazkano, Itziar - 2016
, we empirically analyze the determinants of innovation in electricity generation, and the role of storage in directing … innovation. Our results show that electricity storage increases innovation not only in renewables but also in conventional … technologies. This implies that efforts to increase innovation in storage can benefit conventional, fossil fuel-fired electricity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986171
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Legal Institutions, Innovation and Growth
Anderlini, Luca; Felli, Leonardo; Immordino, Giovanni; … - CESifo - 2011
We analyze the relationship between legal institutions, innovation and growth. We compare a rigid (law set ex … welfare, amount of innovation and output growth at intermediate stages of technological development - periods when legal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009150639
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Legal Institutions, Innovation and Growth
Anderlini, Luca - 2014
We analyze the relationship between legal institutions, innovation and growth. We compare a rigid (law set ex … welfare, amount of innovation and output growth at intermediate stages of technological development - periods when legal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067864
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Fiscal Federalism, Decentralization and Economic Growth: Survey and Meta-Analysis
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Feld, Lars P.; Schnellenbach, Jan - CESifo - 2014
The theoretical literature on the economics of fiscal federalism has identified several potential effects of government decentralization on economic growth. Much of the traditional literature focuses on the efficiency aspects of a decentralized provision of public services. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948879
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Fiscal Federalism, Decentralization and Economic Growth : Survey and Meta-Analysis
Baskaran, Thushyanthan - 2014
The theoretical literature on the economics of fiscal federalism has identified several potential effects of government decentralization on economic growth. Much of the traditional literature focuses on the efficiency aspects of a decentralized provision of public services. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045930