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This Mine is Mine! How Minerals Fuel Conflicts in Africa
Berman, Nicolas - 2015
We combine original geo-referenced data on mining extraction of 15 minerals with information on conflict events at … positive impact of mining on conflict at the local level. Quantitatively, the historical rise in prices (commodity super …-cycle) explains 15-25 percent of average country-level violence in Africa. We then document how the appropriation of a mining area by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019854
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Should We Subsidize Longevity?
Leroux, M.‐L. - 2009
This paper studies the design of the optimal non linear taxation in an economy where longevity varies across agents, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness. Provided earnings, farsightedness and genes are correlated, governmental intervention can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763911
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Mining Matters : Natural Resource Extraction and Local Business Constraints
De Haas, Ralph - 2016
We estimate the impact of local mining activity on the business constraints experienced by 22,150 firms across eight … (<20 km) of a firm deteriorates but business constraints of more distant firms relax. The negative local impact of mining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977161
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Mine, Ours and Yours? Unintended Framing Effects in Dictator Games
Bergh, Andreas - 2018
This paper reports results from a classroom dictator game comparing the effects of three different sets of standard instructions. The results show that seemingly small differences in instructions induce fundamentally different perceptions regarding entitlement. Behavior is affected accordingly,...
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The Carbon-Budget Approach to Climate Stabilization : Cost-Effective Subglobal Versus Global Action
Eichner, Thomas - 2010
Scientific expertise suggests that mitigating extreme world-wide climate change damages requires avoiding increases in the world mean temperature exceeding 2° Celsius. To achieve the two degree target, the cumulated global emissions must not exceed some limit, the so-called global carbon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136281
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Can a Unilateral Carbon Tax Reduce Emissions Elsewhere?
Elliott, Joshua - 2013
One country that tries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions may fear that other countries get a competitive advantage and increase emissions (“leakage”). Estimates from computable general equilibrium (CGE) models such as Elliott et al (2010a,b) indicate that 15% to 25% of abatement might be...
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Supply Side Climate Policy and the Green Paradox
Hoel, Michael - 2013
The focus of the green paradox literature has been either on demand-side climate policies or on effects of technological changes. The present paper addresses the question of whether there also might be some kind of green paradox related to supply-side policies, i.e. policies that per-manently...
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A Model to Evaluate Vehicle Emission Incentive Policies in Japan
Fullerton, Don - 2014
Using three years of data from the 47 prefectures of Japan, we estimate behavior of households who simultaneously make discrete decisions about vehicle ownership and continuous decisions about driving distance. We use the estimated parameters to calculate elasticities and to simulate the effects...
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Strategic Approaches to CO2 Emissions - The Case of the Cement Industry and of the Chemical Industry
Arjaliès, Diane-Laure - 2014
The ability of companies to turn an environmental constraint into a source of strategic opportunities is a controversial topic in published research. The article, which is based on a comparative study of the CO2 emission reduction strategies implemented by the cement and chemical industries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057268
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When Labor Disputes Bring Cities to a Standstill : The Impact of Public Transit Strikes on Traffic, Accidents, Air Pollution, and Health
Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2015
Many governments have banned strikes in public transportation. Whether this can be justified depends on whether strikes endanger public safety or health. We use time-series and cross-sectional variation in powerful registry data to quantify the effects of public transit strikes on urban...
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