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Biodiversity and Geography
Rauscher, Michael - 2014
looks at optimal policies of biodiversity conservation. The subject of the paper is natural biodiversity, which is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751891
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962993
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157849
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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
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136587
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020519
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Productive Government Expenditure and Economic Growth
Irmen, Andreas; Kuehnel, Johanna - 2021
We provide a comprehensive survey of the recent literature on the link between productive government expenditure and economic growth. Starting with the seminal paper of Robert Barro (1990) we show that an understanding of the core results of the ensuing contributions can be gained from the study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316522
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Sustainable Social Spending in a Greying Economy with Stagnant Public Services : Baumol's Cost Disease Revisited
van der Ploeg, Rick - 2021
Baumol's cost disease states that relatively high productivity growth in manufacturing induces a steady increase in the relative price of human services. If demand for these services is inelastic or manufactured goods are necessities, the budget share of these services inexorably rises over time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317376
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Private Capital, Public Goods : Forest Plantations' Investment in Local Infrastructure and Social Services in Rural Tanzania
Degnet, Mohammed B. - 2017
With the rapid expansion of private forest plantations worldwide, their impacts on local development are under scrutiny by NGOs and researchers alike. This study investigates the impacts of private forest plantations on local infrastructure and social services in rural Tanzania. We take a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943387
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Public Investment and Re-Election Prospects in Developed Countries
Katsimi, Margarita - 2011
A growing literature suggests that office motivated politicians manipulate fiscal policy instruments in order to seek their re-election. This paper investigates the impact of electoral manipulation of the level and composition of fiscal policy on incumbent's re-election prospects. This impact is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120568