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Competition and incentives with motivated agents
Besley, Timothy; Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
A unifying theme in the literature on organizations such as public bureaucracies and private non-profits is the … private nonprofits, and the interdependence of incentives and productivity between the private for-profit sector and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745867
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Raising finance to support developing country action: some economic considerations
Bowen, Alex - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
countries. The main conclusions are that, first, there is an important role for private finance, which would be facilitated by … market – and policy – failures associated with climate change and its mitigation. Third, raising tax revenues may be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745946
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Environmental services and poverty alleviation: either, or, or both?
Groom, Ben; Palmer, Charles - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
recipients. However, where recipients of PES are subject to market constraints (e.g. credit rationing, input constraints etc … objectives by relaxing household constraints. This highlights the need to understand the market conditions, institutional context …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745803
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Do oil windfalls improve living standards?: evidence from Brazil
Caselli, Francesco; Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
We use variation in oil output among Brazilian municipalities to investigate the effects of resource windfalls on government behavior. Oil-rich municipalities experience increases in revenues and report corresponding increases in spending on public goods and services. However, survey data and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125909
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When foreign direct investment is good for development: Bulgaria’s accession, industrial restructuring and regional FDI
Bozhilova, Diana - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
This article examines the dynamic between the process of Bulgaria’s European Union accession and the flow of Foreign … major source of strategic regional investments in Bulgaria’s industry highlighting the significance of regional trade and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744962
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Endogenous industry structure in vertical duopoly
Halonen, Maija - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1994
integration emerges whether there is Cournot or Bertrand competition in the input market. The degree of integration in the … industry is increasing in the size of the downstream market and decreasing in the average marginal cost of the industry and in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928628
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Wage differentials in Japan: 1958-85
Morishima, Michio - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1989
The market is a place where people behave quite relentlessly. If one person is selling a particular commodity at a … an exceptional one. Thus, the assumption that the market is a relentless place is acceptable as a first approximation ot …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928724
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The learning process and the market: the Japanese capital goods sector in the early twentieth century
Nakaoka, Tetsuro - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1994
Professor Tetsuro Nakaoka, formerly of Osaka University, and now of the Faculty of Management, Osaka University of Economics, gave a seminar on Japanese industrial development at the Suntory-Toyota Centre during 1992. Although it was not possible to publish that paper as a STICERD discussion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745230
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The survival of the conformist: social pressure and renewable resource management
Tavoni, Alessandro; Schlüter, Maja; Levin, Simon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
This paper examines the role of other-regarding behavior as a mechanism for the establishment and maintenance of cooperation in resource use under variable social and environmental conditions. By coupling resource stock dynamics with social dynamics concerning compliance to a social norm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071071
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Do giant oilfield discoveries fuel internal armed conflicts?
Lei, Yu-Hsiang; Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
We use new data to examine the effects of giant oilfield discoveries around the world since 1946. On average, these discoveries increase per capita oil production and oil exports by up to 50 percent. But these giant oilfield discoveries also have a dark side: they increase the incidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745904