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Who cares? : future sea-level-rise and house prices
Filippova, Olga; Nguyen, Cuong; Noy, Ilan; Rehm, Michael - 2019
study from the Kapiti Coast District in New Zealand, we pose a simple question: Do people factor in the warnings provided by … more/less information becomes available about property-specific consequences of future sea level rise. The Kapiti Coast … District Council published detailed projected erosion risk maps for the district's coastline in 2012 and was forced to remove …
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Optimal fishery with coastal catch
Uecker, Hannes; Bayındır-Upmann, Thorsten - 2016
steady states and the optimal paths on the cost parameters. …
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Cities and the sea level
Lin, Yatang; McDermott, Thomas K. J.; Michaels, Guy - 2021
Construction on low elevation coastal zones is risky for both residents and taxpayers who bail them out, especially when sea levels are rising. We study this construction using spatially disaggregated data on the US Atlantic and Gulf coasts. We document nine stylized facts, including a sizeable...
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Whither public interest : the case of Greece's public finances
Moutos, Thomas; Tsitsikas, Christos - 2010
During the last three decades there has been an almost continuous undermining of the public interest by private interests operating either outside or inside Greek public administration. The result of this infiltration has been a gradual loss of bureaucratic autonomy to pursue the public...
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The economics of politically connected firms
Choi, Jay Pil (contributor); Thum, Marcel (contributor) - 2007
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Political parties and network formation
Miettinen, Topi (contributor); Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2006
We argue that anticorruption laws may provide an efficiency rationale for why political parties should meddle in the distribution of political nominations and government contracts. Anticorruption laws forbid trade in spoils that politicians distribute. However, citizens may pay for gaining...
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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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Supermajorities and political rent extraction
Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015
provide an informative setting to relate political behavior to protection of incumbency. Our results show that the likelihood …
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Just hire your spouse! : evidence from a political scandal in Bavaria
Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2014
We investigate a case of political favoritism. Some members of the Bavarian parliament hired relatives as office employees who were paid using taxpayers' money. We examine whether being involved in the scandal influenced re-election prospects and voter turnout. The results do not show that being...
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Tariffs passing through retailers : do tariffs actually protect domestic manufacturers?
Cole, Matthew T.; Eckel, Carsten - 2014
in response to an increased tariff. Moreover, any production gains that occur are biased towards higher cost domestic …
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