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Do we still need carbonIntensive capital when transitioning to a green economy?

Jin, Wei; Ploeg, Frederick van der; Zhang, Lin - 2020

This paper presents a two-sector green endogenous growth model to explore a mechanism that explains why carbon-intensive capital is not necessarily shut down during transition to a green economy. Without accumulating clean capital to offset carbon emissions, a tightening of climate regulation...

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War and natural resource exploitation

Ploeg, Frederick van der; Rohner, Dominic - 2010

Although the relationship between natural resources and civil war has received much attention, little is known about the underlying mechanisms. Controversies and contradictions in the stylized facts persist because resource extraction is treated as exogenous while in reality fighting affects...

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Rapacious resource depletion, excessive investment and insecure property rights

Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2010

countries with less secure property rights. The theory suggests that adjusted net saving estimates calculated by the World Bank …

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Natural resources : curse or blessing?

Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2010

Are natural resources a "curse" or a "blessing"? The empirical evidence suggests either outcome is possible. The paper surveys a variety of hypotheses and supporting evidence for why some countries benefit and others lose from the presence of natural resources. These include that a resource...

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Do rankings reflect research quality?

Frey, Bruno S. (contributor); Rost, Katja (contributor) - 2008

Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and countries, and determine to a large extent the career of individual scholars. We argue that such rankings do not effectively measure research quality, which should be the essence of...

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The volatility curse : revisiting the paradox of plenty

Ploeg, Frederick van der; Poelhekke, Steven - 2009

The volatility of unanticipated output growth in income per capita is detrimental to long-run development, controlling for initial income per capita, population growth, human capital, investment, openness and natural resource dependence. This effect is significant and robust over a wide range of...

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Politicians : be killed or survive

Frey, Bruno S. (contributor); Torgler, Benno (contributor) - 2008

In the course of history, a large number of politicians have been assassinated. Rational choice hypotheses are developed and tested using panel data covering more than 100 countries over a period of 20 years. Several strategies, in addition to security measures, are shown to significantly reduce...

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Awards in economics : towards a new field of inquiry

Frey, Bruno S.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2009

Awards play a large role in the economics profession, which is documented by the large variety and number of awards. However, little scientific attention has been devoted to them. This paper documents the prevalence of awards in the economics profession and analyzes the number and type of awards...

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Making world heritage truly global : the culture certificate scheme

Frey, Bruno S.; Pamini, Paolo - 2009

Culture has attributes of a global public good that needs to be preserved for mankind as a whole. World Culture … Certificates are proposed to efficiently preserve World Heritage. The community of nations has to agree on the Global Heritage List … and how much each nation is to contribute to that purpose. Each World Heritage site conserved is acknowledged through the …

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World heritage: where are we? : an empirical analysis

Frey, Bruno S.; Pamini, Paolo - 2010

An empirical overview of the UNESCO World Heritage List according to various characteristics is presented. The … officially stated intention of the World Heritage List is to protect global heritage. Our focus is on the imbalance of the … considered "balanced" from different points of view. It turns out that the World Heritage List is unbalanced with respect to a …

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