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Efficient nonanthropocentric nature protection

Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2004

This paper analyzes nature protection by a social planner under different "utilitarian" social welfare functions. For that purpose we construct an integrated model of the economy and the ecosystem with explicit consideration of nonhuman species and with competition between human and nonhuman...

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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...

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Kalòs kai agathòs? : government quality and cultural heritage in the regions of Europe

Bertacchini, Enrico; Revelli, Federico - 2019

This paper uses panel data on over 200 regions of Europe to study the spatial distribution of UNESCO sites and the capacity of regional governments to conserve heritage, using new designations in the World Heritage List as a proxy. We test whether the location of a region matters by controlling...

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Lord, how I want to be in that number! : on the blessing of UNESCO world heritage listing

Bertacchini, Enrico; Revelli, Federico; Zotti, Roberto - 2023

This paper studies the impact of UNESCO World Heritage List (WHL) inscription on income and property values in the Italian municipalities that had their sites inscribed during the past two decades. To address the selection bias and identify the causal impact of inscription, we focus on sites...

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Atomistic congestion tolls at concentrated airports? : seeking a unified view in the internalization debate

Brueckner, Jan K. (contributor); … - 2007

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Are user fees really regressive?

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs - 2012

This paper studies the aggregate and distributional implications of introducing user fees for publicly provided excludable public goods into a model with consumption and income taxes. The setup is a neoclassical growth model where agents differ in earnings and second-best policy is chosen by a...

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Taxes or fees? : the political economy of providing excludable public goods

Swope, Kurtis J.; Janeba, Eckhard - 2001

This paper provides a positive analysis of public provision of excludable public goods financed by uniform taxes or fees. Individuals differing in preferences decide using majority-rule the provision level and financing instrument. The median preference individual is the decisive voter in a tax...

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Income distribution and tax structure : microeconomic test of the Meltzer-Richard hypothesis

Borge, Lars-Erik; Rattsø, Jørn - 2001

structure in decentralized government in Norway. The choice of revenue instruments studied involves user charges and property … taxes oriented towards housing. While user charges act as head taxes, property taxes have distributive consequences. The … implies a shift in the tax burden from property taxes to user charges. …

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Rent taxes and royalties in designing fiscal regimes for non-renewable resources

Boadway, Robin W.; Keen, Michael - 2014

A fundamental issues in designing any fiscal regime for non-renewable resources is the balance between rent taxes and royalties. This paper reviews the core issues that arise, in terms of both efficient rent extraction and correcting various market failures. Issues of asymmetric information, for...

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Product unbundling in the travel industry : the economics of airline bag fees

Brueckner, Jan K.; Lee, Darin N.; Picard, Pierre M.; … - 2013

This paper provides theory and evidence on airline bag fees, offering insights into a real-world case of product unbundling. The theory predicts that an airlineś fares should fall when it introduces a bag fee, but that the full trip price (the bag fee plus the new fare) could either rise or...

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