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Did the Japanese Patient Follow the Doctor's Orders? Mostly No! A Public Choice Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Schemes in Japan Before and after the Earthquake
Rudolph, Sven - 2013
The Great Tōhoku-Earthquake and the following nuclear meltdown in Fukushima called the world's attention to Japans …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092105
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Long-Term Growth Effects of Natural Disasters - Empirical Evidence for Droughts
Berlemann, Michael - 2015
The ongoing process of climate change goes along with a higher frequency and/or severity of droughts. While the short-term growth consequences of droughts are comparatively well examined, little research has yet been devoted to the question whether and how droughts affect medium and long-term...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010474
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Do Natural Disasters Stimulate Individual Saving? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in a Highly Developed Country
Berlemann, Michael - 2015
While various empirical studies have found negative growth-effects of natural disasters, little is yet known about the microeconomic channels through which disasters might affect short- and especially long-term growth. This paper contributes to filling this gap in the literature by studying how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022499
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Incumbents' Performance and Political Polarization
Dodlova, Marina - 2016
This paper studies the relationship between incumbents' performance and political polarization, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a spatial model of political competition in which the voters use the incumbent's performance in office to update their beliefs about his competence. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997328
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Resource Rents, Democracy and Corruption : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Arezki, Rabah - 2013
We examine the effect of the interaction between resource rents and democracy on corruption for a panel of 29 Sub …-Saharan countries during the period from 1985 to 2007. We find that higher resource rents lead to more corruption and that the effect is … suggest that the mechanisms through which resource rents affect corruption cannot be separated from political systems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092386
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Size, Determinants, and Consequences of Corruption in China's Provinces : The MIMIC Approach
Chen, Hailin - 2018
This paper uses a multiple indicators and multiple causes (MIMIC) model and estimates the extent of corruption in 30 … Chinese provinces from 1995 to 2015. Treating corruption as an unobserved latent variable, the MIMIC results show that both … government size and public investment have significant positive effects on corruption, while fiscal decentralization, citizen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910628
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Exposition to Corruption and Political Participation : Evidence from Italian Municipalities
Giommoni, Tommaso - 2017
The aim of this paper is to study the effect of local corruption on political participation which is mediated by the … press. Focusing on Italy, we generate a daily measure of exposition to local corruption screening articles of main Italian … press agency. Applying an event-study methodology on local elections, two results emerge. First, corruption exposition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947352
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Decentralization and Natural Disasters
Goodspeed, Timothy - 2013
This paper surveys recent research on decentralization and natural disasters. The first part discusses results from theoretical models that have been used to study the issues that arise when natural disasters occur in a country with more than one level of government. The next section discusses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083868
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Long-Run Consequences of Exposure to Natural Disasters
Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2016
We utilize the individual-level World War I Draft Registration Cards matched to late-nineteenth century hurricane paths and the 1940 U.S. Census to explore whether fetal and early childhood exposure to stress caused by hurricanes affects human capital development and labor market outcomes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977164
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Did the Japanese Patient Follow the Doctor's Orders? Mostly no! A Public Choice Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Schemes in Japan before and after the Earthquake
Rudolph, Sven; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2011
The Great Tôhoku-Earthquake and the following nuclear meltdown in Fukushima called the world’s attention to Japans …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364314