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Berlemann, Michael; Wenzel, Daniela - 2018

As the ongoing process of global warming goes along with changes in both mean precipitation and precipitation extremes, the scientific interest in the effects of rainfall on economic prosperity has recently grown significantly. However, the few existing empirical studies of short-run growth...

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Land grabbing and ethnic conflict

Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2016

We study the effect of large-scale land acquisitions on the risk of ethnic tensions for a sample of 133 countries for the 2000-2012 period. Running a series of fractional response models, we find that more land grabbing activity is associated with a higher risk of ethnic tensions, indicating...

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Competition for natural resources and the hold-up problem

Hefeker, Carsten; Kessing, Sebastian - 2016

We study the role of competition for the hold-up problem in foreign direct investment in resource-based industries. The … host country government is not only unable to commit not to expropriate investment ex post, but is also unable to commit to … higher investment levels and increases host country revenues, but hurts pro.ts of international investors. …

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Estimating fluctuations in oil and gas investment

Dahl, Roy Endré; Osmundsen, Petter - 2014

Governments in extraction countries are anxious to estimate expected investment in development projects, since they … explain fluctuations in investment in petroleum projects on the Norwegian continental shelf. …

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Growing like Germany : local public debt, local banks, low private investment

Hoffmann, Mathias; Stewen, Iryna; Stiefel, Michael - 2021

municipalities crowds out private investment. Our results show how crowding out can happen in a developed economy characterized by … market power to charge higher rates on their SME customers. This crowded out firm investment. Perversely, fiscal … which increasingly borrowed from local public banks. Crowding out lowered aggregate private investment by around 30-40 bio …

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Thanks but no thanks : a new policy to reduce land conflict

Dufwenberg, Martin; Köhlin, Gunnar; Martinsson, Peter; … - 2014

Land conflicts in developing countries are costly. An important policy goal is to create respect for borders. This often involves mandatory, expensive interventions. We propose a new policy design, which in theory promotes neighborly relations at low cost. A salient feature is the option to...

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Impact of formal climate risk transfer mechanisms on risk-aversion : empirical evidence from rural Ethiopia

Haile, Kaleab K.; Nillesen, Eleonora; Tirivayi, Nyasha - 2019

insurance (WICI) in Ethiopia. We use an endogenous switching (ESP) model to address self-selection and simultaneity bias …

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Jobs and Intimate Partner Violence : evidence from a field experiment in Ethiopia

Kotsadam, Andreas; Villanger, Espen - 2020

Ethiopia to randomly assign jobs to equally qualified female applicants. The job offers increase formal employment, earnings …

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Does the nominal exchange rate regime matter for investment?

Böhm, Hjalmar; Funke, Michael - 2001

This paper analyses the impact of exchange rate uncertainty upon the pattern of investment in different exchange rate … exchange rate regimes indicates that currency volatility exerts only a small influence upon the level of investment spending …

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Investment uncertainty, and production games

Flåm, Sjur D.; Ermolʹev, Jurij M. - 2004

This paper explores some cooperative aspects of investments in uncertain, real options. Key production factors are assumed transferable. They may reflect property or user rights. Emission of pollutants and harvest of renewable resources are cases in point. Of particular interest are alternative...

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