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On the sensitivity of collective action to uncertainty about climate tipping points
Barrett, Scott; Dannenberg, Astrid - 2014
Previous research shows that collective action to avoid a catastrophic threshold, such as a climate "tipping point", is unaffected by uncertainty about the impact of crossing the threshold but that collective action collapses if the location of the threshold is uncertain. Theory suggests that...
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Liberation technology : mobile phones and political mobilization in Africa
Manacorda, Marco; Tesei, Andrea - 2016 - This version: March 2016
Can digital information and communication technology (ICT) foster mass political mobilization? We use a novel geo-referenced dataset for the entire African continent between 1998 and 2012 on the coverage of mobile phone signal together with georeferenced data from multiple sources on the...
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Selling to the mean
Kos, Nenad; Messner, Matthias - 2015
We study optimal selling strategies of a seller who is poorly informed about the buyer’s value for the object. When the maxmin seller only knows that the mean of the distribution of the buyer's valuations belongs to some interval then nature can keep him to payoff zero no matter how much...
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Robustness of a simple rule for the social cost of carbon
Rezai, Armon; Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2014
The optimal social cost of carbon is in general equilibrium proportional to GDP if utility is logarithmic, production is Cobb-Douglas, depreciation in 100% every period, climate damages as fraction of production decline exponentially with the stock of atmospheric carbon, and fossil fuel...
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Hidden in plain sight : influential sets in linear models
Kuschnig, Nikolas; Zens, Gregor; Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús - 2021
Assessing the robustness of the results of econometric analysis is a long standing subject of lively research. The … that increased attention to influential sets is warranted and comprehensive robustness measures for regression analysis are …
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A theory of experimenters
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Chassang, Sylvain; Montero, Sergio; … - 2017
-averse decision-makers, who make trade-offs between subjective expected performance and robustness. This framework accounts for … sample size is large enough or robustness is an important concern. We illustrate the practical value of such a framework by … studying the issue of rerandomization. Rerandomization creates a trade-off between subjective performance and robustness …
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Household vulnerability on the frontline of climate change : the pacific atoll nation of Tuvalu
Taupo, Tauisi; Cuffe, Harold; Noy, Ilan - 2016
This paper investigates the vulnerability of households to climatic disasters in the low-lying atoll nation of Tuvalu …
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How resilient was trade to Covid-19?
Bas, Maria; Fernandes, Ana; Paunov, Caroline - 2022
We examine the supply-side characteristics - unskilled labor, imported input intensity, dependence on inputs from China, production complexity - that determine different potential vulnerabilities of traded products to the COVID-19 pandemic. Relying on monthly exports at the product level by all...
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Labour unions : to unite or to separate?
Bayındır-Upmann, Thorsten (contributor) - 2008
In this paper we investigate trade union formation. To this end we apply a model with two types of labour where the interests of both groups of labourers are represented by either a joint (industry) labour union or by two independent group-specific (professional) labour unions. We investigate...
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Mobility and conflict
Bhattacharya, Sourav; Deb, Joyee; Kundu, Tapas - 2012
We study the role of inter-group differences in the emergence of conflict. In our setting, two groups compete for the right to allocate societys resources, and we allow for costly intergroup mobility. The winning group offers an allocation, that the opposition can either accept, or reject and...
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