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International environmental agreements under uncertainty : does the veil of uncertainty help?
Finus, Michael; Pintassilgo, Pedro - 2010
Na and Shin (1998) showed that the veil of uncertainty can be conducive to the success of self-enforcing international environmental agreements. Later papers confirmed this negative conclusion about the role of learning. In the light of intensified research efforts worldwide to reduce...
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Modesty pays : sometimes!
Finus, Michael - 2004
Standard non-cooperative game theoretical models of international environmental agreements (IEAs) draw a pessimistic picture of the prospective of successful cooperation: only small coalitions are stable that achieve only little. However, there also exist IEAs with higher participation and more...
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Monetary value assessment of clam fishing management practices in the Venice Lagoon : results from a stated choice exercise
Nunes, Paulo A. L. D.; Rossetto, Luca; Blaeij, Adriana … - 2003
This article focuses on the economic valuation of alternative clam management practices in the Venice Lagoon. The proposed valuation method is characterized by the design of a survey questionnaire next to the fishermen population. In each questionnaire two fishing alternatives are described. The...
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How the rules of coalition formation affect stability of international environmental agreements
Finus, Michael; Rundshagen, Bianca - 2003
This paper compares stability of international environmental agreements for six different rules of coalition formation under very general conditions (any type of heterogeneity between countries). The rules can be interpreted as different institutional settings in which treaty formations take...
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Fiscal policies, decentralization, and life satisfaction
Ortega Gil, Manuela - 2021
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Willingness to pay to reduce mortality risks : evidence from a three-country contingent valuation study
Alberini, Anna; Hunt, Alistair; Markandya, Anil - 2004
Valuing a change in the risk of death is a key input into the calculation of the benefits of environmental policies that save lives. Typically such risks are monetized using the Value of a Statistical Life (VSL). Because the majority of the lives saved by environmental policies are those of...
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Robustness of VSL values from contingent valuation surveys
Alberini, Anna - 2004
This paper examines factors that may influence the estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life obtained from contingent valuation surveys that elicit the willingness to pay (WTP) for mortality risk reductions. We examine the importance of distributional assumptions, the choice of the welfare...
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The labor market worsening effects of a resource bust : evidence from the crude oil price shock in Ecuador
Parra-Cely, Sergio; Zanoni López, Wladimir - 2022
To assess the effects of an oil price bust on individual labor market outcomes, we leverage the 2015 exogenous decline in international oil prices with geographical variation in oil-dependency in Ecuador. To account for propagation mechanisms, we also test the causal effect of the oil price bust...
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The effect of income on positive and negative subjective well-being
Boes, Stefan (contributor); Winkelmann, Rainer (contributor) - 2006
Increasing evidence from the empirical economic and psychological literature suggests that positive and negative well-being … analyzing the determinants of subjective well-being. We argue that this conclusion reflects in part the use of too restrictive … asymmetries in single-item measures of subjective well-being. An application to data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for 1984 …
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Money illusion under test
Boes, Stefan (contributor); Lipp, Markus (contributor);  … - 2005
hypothesis of no money illusion. -- cost-of-living ; subjective well-being ; fixed effect …
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