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Behavioral determinants of proclaimed support for environment protection policies
Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2016
Using a representative survey of German university students, we confirm that proclaimed support for environment protection policies depends on socio-cultural factors and political ideology. Unlike most related studies for other countries, we find that the environmental policy stance of German...
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Capital structure and regulation in US local telephony: an exploratory econometric study
Resende, Marcelo - 2009
The paper aims at empirically investigating the relationship between regulation and the capital structure of the regulated firm, A key aspect of the referred relationship pertains a leverage effect according to which debt could be increased as a response to previous physical capital investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003854388
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The signaling role of municipal currencies in local development
Jayaraman, Rajshri; Oak, Mandar - 2003
The last decade has seen the burgeoning of several hundred local community currency institutions in cities across the world. Although residents of these communities claim that local currency promotes local development, how if at all it does so has hitherto been unexplored. This paper argues that...
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Persistence of politicians and firms' innovation
Bellettini, Giorgio; Berti Ceroni, Carlotta; Prarolo, … - 2011
We empirically investigate whether the persistence of politicians in political institutions affects the innovation activity of firms. We use 12,000 firm-level observations from three waves of the Italian Observatory over Small and Medium Enterprises, and introduce a measure of political...
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Should local public employment services be merged with the local social benefit administrations?
Holzner, Christian; Munz, Sonja - 2011
The German Federal government has allowed some regions (Approved Local Providers) to be solely responsible for the care of long-term unemployed. The remaining regions had to form Joint Local Agencies, where the local social benefit administrations work together with the local public employment...
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The impact of city contracting set-asides on black self-employment and employment
Chatterji, Aaron; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013
In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...
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Does size matter? : evidence from municipality break-ups
Erlingsson, Gissur Ó.; Klarin, Jonas; Mörk, Eva - 2021
Municipal break-ups are an understudied phenomenon despite the fact that such territorial reforms regularly take place across the globe. This paper estimates how seven voluntary splits of Swedish municipalities affected municipal current costs. To predict what would have happened had the...
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Strategic supply function competition with private information
Vives, Xavier (contributor) - 2008
A Bayesian supply function equilibrium is characterized in a market where firms have private information about their … uncertain costs. It is found that with supply function competition, and in contrast to Bayesian Cournot competition …, competitiveness is affected by the parameters of the information structure: supply functions are steeper with more noise in the …
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Should we be worried about the green paradox? : announcement effects of the acid rain program
Di Maria, Corrado; Lange, Ian; Van der Werf, Edwin - 2012 - This version: May 21, 2012
imperfectly implemented policies may lead to detrimental environmental outcomes due to supply side responses. We use the … future sales to decline, would supply more of their resource between the announcement of the Acid Rain Program and its … implementation; moreover, the incentive to increase supply would be stronger for owners of high-sulfur coal. This would, all else …
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Biofuels subsidies and the green paradox
Grafton, R. Quentin; Kompas, Tom; Long, Ngo Van - 2010
subsidies for biofuel production such that the supply-side responses by fossil fuel producers may more than offset the …
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