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Inequality and the Social Cost of Carbon
Anthoff, David - 2016
This paper presents a novel way to disentangle inequality aversion over time from inequality aversion between regions in the computation of the Social Cost of Carbon. Our approach nests a standard efficiency based Social Cost of Carbon estimate and an equity weighted Social Cost of Carbon...
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Growth and Mitigation Policies with Uncertain Climate Damage
Bretschger, Lucas - 2014
baseline model by adding climate-induced fluctuations around the growth trend and stock-pollution effects, demonstrating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040491
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Will Skycrapers Save the Planet? Building Height Limits and Urban Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Borck, Rainald - 2021
This paper studies the effectiveness of building height limits as a policy to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It shows that building height limits lead to urban sprawl and higher emissions from commuting. On the other hand, aggregate housing consumption may decrease which reduces emissions...
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International Student Migration : A Partial Identification Analysis
Meango, Romuald - 2014
This paper studies the decision made by a family to invest in student migration. We propose an empirical structural decision model which reflects the importance of both the return to the investment and the budgetary constraint in the choice of the family. We circumvent the problem of endogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056819
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Patient Mobility, Health Care Quality and Welfare
Brekke, Kurt Richard; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - 2021
Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients’ right to EU-wide provider choice …. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility … on health care quality, health care financing and welfare. We show that without patient mobility quality is too low (high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315635
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What Drives Immigration Amnesties?
Casarico, Alessandra - 2012
We develop a general model of legal and illegal immigration to understand the basic tradeoffs faced by a government in the decision to implement an immigration amnesty in the presence of a selective immigration policy. We show that two channels play an important role: an amnesty is more likely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098338
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Self-Confirming Immigration Policy
Giordani, Paolo E. - 2012
We study immigration policy in a small receiving economy under self-selection of migrants. We show that a non-discriminatory immigration policy choice affects and is affected by the migratory decisions of skilled and unskilled foreign workers. From this interaction multiple equilibria may arise,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108468
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Migration into the Welfare State : Tax and Migration Competition
Razin, Assaf - 2013
In this paper I provide some support to the Tiebout hypothesis. It suggests that when a group of host countries faces an upward supply of immigrants, tax competition does not indeed lead to a race to the bottom; competition may lead to higher taxes than coordination. We identify a fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082005
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Temporary Migration Policies and Welfare of the Host and Source Countries : A Game-Theoretic Approach
Djajic, Slobodan - 2009
This paper examines the interaction between migration policies of the host and source countries in the context of a model of guest-worker migration. For the host, the objective is to provide low-cost labor for its employers while avoiding illegal immigration. It optimizes over these objectives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155673
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Managing Migration Through Conflicting Policies : An Option-Theory Perspective
Moretto, Michele - 2009
Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand, the trend of recent legislation points to the increasing closure of frontiers (OECD 1999, 2001,2004), trying to limit the immigrants' stock. On the other hand, there is an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157501