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Is the Endangered Species Act Endangering Species?
List, John A. - 2007
We develop theory and present a suite of theoretically consistent empirical measures to explore the extent to which market intervention inadvertently alters resource allocation in a sequentialmove principal/agent game. We showcase our approach empirically by exploring the extent to which the...
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Estimating the Impact of Crop Diversity on Agricultural Productivity in South Africa
Bellora, Cecilia - 2017
Crop biodiversity has the potential to enhance resistance to strains due to biotic and abiotic factors and to improve … crop production and farm revenues. To investigate the effect of crop biodiversity on crop productivity, we build a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954450
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The Economic Case for Protecting Biodiversity
Heal, Geoffrey M. - 2022
This paper summarizes in non-technical terms the economic case for conserving biodiversity, and explains why we cannot … rely on market forces to do this task. It reviews the policy interventions that could help in biodiversity conservation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014091898
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When Fast Growing Economies Slow Down : International Evidence and Implications for China
Eichengreen, Barry - 2011
Using international data starting in 1957, we construct a sample of cases where fast-growing economies slow down. The evidence suggests that rapidly growing economies slow down significantly, in the sense that the growth rate downshifts by at least 2 percentage points, when their per capita...
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The U.S. Left Behind : The Rise of IPO Activity Around the World
Doidge, Craig - 2011
During the past two decades, there has been a dramatic change in IPO activity around the world. Though vibrant IPO … activity, attributed to better institutions and governance, used to be a strength of the U.S., it no longer is. IPO activity in … the U.S. has fallen compared to the rest of the world and U.S. firms go public less than expected based on the economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127767
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Sovereign Default Risk and Bank Fragility in Financially Integrated Economies
Bolton, Patrick - 2011
We analyze contagious sovereign debt crises in financially integrated economies. Under financial integration banks optimally diversify their holdings of sovereign debt in an effort to minimize the costs with respect to an individual country's sovereign debt default. While diversification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127984
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Dividends and Bank Capital in the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009
Acharya, Viral V. - 2011
The headline numbers appear to show that even as banks and financial intermediaries suffered large credit losses in the financial crisis of 2007-09, they raised substantial amounts of new capital, both from private investors and through government-funded capital injections. However, on closer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128263
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What Explains the Lagged Investment Effect?
Eberly, Janice C. - 2011
The best predictor of current investment at the firm level is lagged investment. This lagged-investment effect is empirically more important than the cash-flow and Q effects combined. We show that the specification of investment adjustment costs proposed by Christiano, Eichenbaum and Evans...
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The Liquidation of Government Debt
Reinhart, Carmen M. - 2011
Historically, periods of high indebtedness have been associated with a rising incidence of default or restructuring of public and private debts. A subtle type of debt restructuring takes the form of "financial repression." Financial repression includes directed lending to government by captive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128286
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Does Price Reveal Poor-Quality Drugs? Evidence from 17 Countries
Bate, Roger - 2011
Focusing on 8 drug types on the WHO-approved medicine list, we constructed an original dataset of 899 drug samples from 17 low- and median-income countries and tested them for visual appearance, disintegration, and analyzed their ingredients by chromatography and spectrometry. Fifteen percent of...
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