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Managing the Risk of Natural Catastrophes: The Role and Functioning of State Insurance Programs
Kousky, Carolyn - 2010
or earthquake coverage and outlines the motivation for establishing such programs. The implications of design and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642190
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Reexamining the link between gender and corruption: The role of social institutions
Branisa, Boris; Ziegler, Maria - 2010
In this paper we reexamine the link between gender inequality and corruption. We review the literature on the … relationship between representation of women in economic and political life, democracy and corruption, and bring in a new … gender inequality. Using a sample of developing countries we regress corruption on the representation of women, democracy and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329951
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The participation gap: Evidence from compulsory voting laws
Hangartner, Dominik; Schmid, Lukas - 2010
Why do some people go to the polling station, sometimes up to several times a year, while others always prefer to stay at home? This question has launched a wide theoretical debate in both economics and political science, but convincing empirical support for the different models proposed is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316039
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An application of partial least squares to the construction of the Social Institutions and Gender index (SIGI) and the Corruption Perception Index (CPI)
Yoon, Jisu; Klasen, Stephan - 2015
on several development outcomes, such as female education, fertility, child mortality and corruption, controlling for … relevant determinants. As the measure of corruption we use the Corruption Perception Index (CPI), considering alternative … fertility and corruption regardless of the weighting procedure, while for female education and child mortality only the SIGI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010504411
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The consumption-based carbon footprint of households in Sulawesi, Jambi and Indonesia as a whole in 2013
Irfany, Mohammad Iqbal; Klasen, Stephan; Yusuf, Rezky … - 2015
This study analyzes the consumption-based carbon footprint of households in Sulawesi, Jambi and Indonesia as a whole. Combining the use of the GTAP data for emission intensities, of input-output tables for inter-industry linkages with household expenditure categories, we then estimate and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335512
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Climate Change and Production Risk in Chinese Aquaculture
Holst, Rainer; Yu, Xiaohua - 2011
Drawing on the method developed by Just and Pope (1978, 1979), this paper separately analyzes the marginal contributions of both regular input factors and climate factors to mean output and to production risk in Chinese inland aquaculture. Furthermore, the net change in output following a 1°C...
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Climate Change, Risk and Grain Production in China
Holst, Rainer; Yu, Xiaohua; Grün, Carola - 2011
This paper employs the production function-based method proposed by Just and Pope (1978, 1979) to explicitly analyze production risk in the context of Chinese grain farming and climate change, and test for potential endogeneity of climate factors in Chinese grain production. Our results indicate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329992
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Regional Agreements to Address Climate Change: Scope, Promise, Funding, and Impacts
Butzlaff, Iris; Grunewald, Nicole; Klasen, Stephan - 2013
There is a large number of regional agreements concerning Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, often linked to other regional integration agreements. The most successful one in making effort in reducing carbon emissions is the Emission Trading System by the European Union (EU ETS). Apart from this...
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Output-based rebating of carbon taxes in the neighbor's backyard. Competitiveness, leakage and welfare
Böhringer, Christoph; Bye, Brita; Fæhn, Taran; … - 2014
We investigate how carbon taxes combined with output-based rebating (OBR) in an open economy perform in interaction with the carbon policies of a large neighboring trading partner. Analytical results suggest that whether the purpose of the OBR policy is to compensate firms for carbon tax burdens...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968553
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Targeted carbon tariffs. Carbon leakage and welfare effects
Böhringer, Christoph; Bye, Brita; Fæhn, Taran; … - 2015
Climate effects of unilateral carbon policies are undermined by carbon leakage. To counteract leakage and increase global cost-effectiveness carbon tariffs can be imposed on the emissions embodied in imports from non-regulating regions. We present a theoretical analysis on the economic...
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