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Transitional forces in a resource based economy : phases of economic and institutional development in Hawaii
Kaiser, Brooks A.; Roumasset, James Alan - 2014
We illuminate several important aspects of the nature and causes of growth and institutional change. To do this, we focus on the role resource pressures have played in the historic development of Hawaii's institutions. We discuss the Hawaiian story in the context of the natural co-evolution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350824
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Resilience to disaster : evidence from daily wellbeing data
Frijters, Paul; Johnston, David; Knott, Rachel J.; … - 2021
As the severity and frequency of natural disasters become more pronounced with climate change and the increased habitation of at-risk areas, it is important to understand people's resilience to them. We quantify resilience by estimating how natural disasters in the US impacted individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500810
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Voice of Africa
al- Markaz al-Miṣrī li-d-Dirāsāt al-Iqtiṣādīya … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013540534
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Learnings from the New Zealand economic history of shocks
Easton, Brian H. - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014426359
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Networks of commons
İlkiliç, Rahmi (contributor) - 2008
A tragedy of the commons appears when the users of a common resource have incentives to exploit it more than the … socially efficient level. We analyze the situation when the tragedy of the commons is embedded in a network of users and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003715125
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Local and global interactions in an evolutionary resource game
Noailly, Joe͏̈lle (contributor);  … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003357129
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Spatial evolution of social norms in a common-pool resource game
Noailly, Joe͏̈lle (contributor);  … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003357132
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On the optimal taxation of common-pool resources
Kossioris, Georgios; Plexousakis, Michael; Xepapadeas, … - 2010
Recent research developments in common-pool resource models emphasize the importance of links with ecological systems and the presence of non-linearities, thresholds and multiple steady states. In a recent paper Kossioris et al. (2008) develop a methodology for deriving feedback Nash equilibria...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008735723
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The problem of the commons : still unsettled after 100 years
Stavins, Robert N. - 2010
The problem of the commons is more important to our lives and thus more central to economics than a century ago when … the commons. Within the realm of natural resources, there are special challenges associated with renewable resources …. Critical commons problems are also associated with environmental quality. A key contribution of economics has been the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008746890
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Fixed instruments to cope with stock externalities : an experimental evaluation
Giordana, Gastón (contributor); Willinger, Marc (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003547166