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climate change, and need for both mitigation and adaptation, there has been a renewed interest in investing in waterways to … enhance connectivity in the region. The study examines how water ways can promote the climate, social and economic resilience …
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important pathway to be explored is the role that building resilience can play in preventing and/or breaking the negative … relationship between climate change and violent activity. In this context, resilience refers to the capacity of a system to come … technological dimensions. In our paper we provide empirical evidence on the role played by resilience-building investments in …
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in these areas, requiring prompt and effective adaptation to climate induced events –from gradual sea level rise to … of agents’ behaviour, from individual risk perceptions’ modelling to decision-making rules on the adaptation option to be …-assessment agentbased models on climate change adaptation in coastal zones, thus, is here provided to investigate the current state of the …
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The economic implications of adaptation to climate change are crucial for the design of a distinctive adaptation policy … climate adaptation policy. First, the justified interventions of the public authorities are identified from the economic … theory point of view. These public interventions include actions aimed at the elimination of private and public adaptation …
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Climate change adaptation in Germany is performed on several policy levels. Based on the economic theory of adaptation … policy, this paper analyses shortcomings of the German adaptation policy approach. These were found in the following areas …: ambiguous distinction between justified government interventions and private autonomous adaptation responsibilities, non …
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experience in a similar one. Using a rich firm-level dataset for Argentina I test this prediction and I provide evidence on the … role and nature of shared export costs. Product adaptation costs, associated to market similarities in geography and …, I show that the failure to consider firms' idiosyncratic experience in international markets leads to an underestimation …
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whether behavior in public goods games is affected by experience (i.e., previous participation in social dilemma … experience. Second, a mixture model reveals that the proportion of unconditional cooperators decreases with experience, while … experience. Our findings have important methodological implications for researchers, who are urged to control for subjects …
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experience that is associated with each percentile of the education-level specific wage distribution. In the second step, we map … this estimated average years of experience to the wage-level percentiles reported in the Occupational Employment and Wage … all possible years of experience for each occupation. …
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There have been many studies of the volume-outcome relationship. In all of these, the unit of analysis is the hospital or physician. However, this level of analysis is mostly limited to the use of in-hospital mortality rates and is particularly sensitive to selective referral. Moreover, the...
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We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee's assignment of cards,...
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