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) emissions from agriculture. In a step towards a full evaluation of the impacts, it uses a counterfactual global model scenario … that currently tax agriculture have high emission intensities. Policies that directly reduce emission intensities yield …
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unable for institutional reasons to diversify their loan risks either within agriculture or across other geographically …
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, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada we find a range of new results. We find that the reform-induced shift from producing low-value to …
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traditionally left to competing provincial securities commissions. The current state of securities regulation renders impotent US … federal securities regulation models are weighted in light of the current state of their needed complementary institutions …. One option, for which Canada is relatively well prepared, is the British model of activist independent institutional …
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Terrorist attacks worldwide during the past several years have spurned an interest in understanding not only how governments can mitigate terrorism risk but also how governments might help finance future losses. This interest was buttressed by the seemingly failure of the private insurance...
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This paper investigates the rationale for government intervention in the market for terrorism insurance, focusing on the externalities associated with self-protection. Self-protection by one target encourages terrorists to substitute towards less fortified targets. Investments in self-...
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This paper analyzes the impact of rate regulation on the structure of insurance markets for private passenger … those states which impose the most stringent regulation. The analysis suggests that increased regulatory stringency lowers …
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This paper investigates the incentive effects of automobile insurance, compulsory insurance laws, and no-fault liability laws on driver behavior and traffic fatalities. We analyze a panel of 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia from 1970-1998, a period in which many states adopted...
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kinds of financial crises for four countries (Argentina, Australia, Canada, and the United States) over the long-run …
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We use new data on manufacturing in Canada to quantify the impact of globalization on the growth and composition of … experienced faster growth. Consistent with the literature on economic development in Canada, we find that scale economies … controlling for these factors, we find that greater exposure to globalization shaped the pattern of regional industrialization in …
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