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Rauscher, Michael - 2014

looks at optimal policies of biodiversity conservation. The subject of the paper is natural biodiversity, which is …

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Coaseian Biodiversity Conservation. Who Benefits?

Eichner, Thomas - 2017

We consider a world economy, in which the global public good 'biodiversity' is positively correlated with that share of …-to-pay for biodiversity conservation is positive in 'rich' developed countries (North), but very low in 'poor' developing … welfare when the North financially supports biodiversity conservation in the South – as stipulated in the Convention on …

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Biodiversity and Geography

Barbier, Edward B.; Rauscher, Michael - CESifo - 2007

looks at optimal policies of biodiversity conservation. The subject of the paper is "natural" biodiversity, which is …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406256

Do Elections Affect the Composition of Fiscal Policy?

Katsimi, Margarita - 2010

This paper investigates the impact of elections on the level and composition of fiscal instruments using a sample of 19 high-income OECD countries that can be characterized as developed, established democracies during the period 1972-1999. We find that elections shift public spending towards...

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Do Re-Election Probabilities Influence Public Investment?

Fiva, Jon H. - 2009

capital. Key for the consistency between data and theory is to account for complementarity between physical capital and flow …

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Why Does Environmental Policy in Representative Democracies Tend to Be Inadequate? A Preliminary Public Choice Analysis

Kollmann, Andrea - 2010

. To identify the reasons for this insufficient implementation in the past decade the Public Choice theory is used. The …

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Forging a Global Environmental Agreement Through Trade Sanctions on Free Riders?

Eichner, Thomas - 2015

This paper studies the formation of self-enforcing global environmental agreements in a world economy with international trade and two groups of countries that differ with respect to fuel demand and environmental damage. It investigates whether the signatories' threat to embargo (potential) free...

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Public Provision and Local Income Tax Competition

Kuhlmey, Florian - 2016

We extend the literature on local income tax competition by allowing for inter-jurisdictional spillovers and imperfect rivalry in consumption of a publicly provided good. Comparing decentralized second-best results of a theoretical model with an efficient benchmark, we identify three...

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The Intricacy of Adapting to Climate Change : Flood Protection as a Local Public Goods Game

Bondarev, Anton A. - 2017

We study adaptation to climate change in a federalist setting. To protect themselves against an increase in flood risk, regional governments choose among adaptation measures that vary with respect to their costs, the level of protection they offer, and the presence and nature of spillovers to...

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Delays in Public Goods

Chatterjee, Santanu - 2018

In this paper, we analyze the consequences of delays and cost overruns typically associated with the provision of public infrastructure in the context of a growing economy. Our results indicate that uncertainty about the arrival of public capital can more than offset its positive spillovers for...

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