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issues: climate change and biodiversity. Involvement of governments and a reference framework provided by intergovernmental …
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species forming a food chain. The size of habitat determines the diversity and abundance of species. That biodiversity …
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We study how income inequality affects the social value of a dynamic public good, such as natural capital. Our theory shows that both intra- and intertemporal inequality affect the social value of public natural capital. The direction and size of the effects are driven by the degree of...
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This paper presents a first model integrating the relation between biodiversity loss and zoonose pandemic risks in a … preserve a greater quantity of biodiversity, thus decreasing the probability of a pandemic occurring, and second (mitigation … biodiversity conservation is shown to be more relevant for more "forward looking" societies, with a small discount rate and a high …
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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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econometric advancements, shifting focus to direct measures of biodiversity, filling the knowledge gap on the effect of protected …
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biodiversity. This paper uses the staggered introduction of protected-area policies between 1985 and 2020 to study the selection of …
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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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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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