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The Carrot or the Stick: Water Allocation Strategies for Uzbekistan
Zaikin, Andrey; Espinola-Arredondo, Ana - School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University - 2012
Irrigation water is a constrained common-pool resource in Uzbekistan that leads to an increasing competition over its allocation among farmers. We examine how the management of the commons in this region affects individual strategic behavior. We conduct an experiment with farmers from Uzbekistan...
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An Excessive Development of Green Products
Espinola-Arredondo, Ana; Munoz-Garcia, Felix - School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University - 2012
This paper examines firms? incentives to develop a new (green) product,which might compete against the traditional pollutant (brown) product that the? firm sells. We show that in equilibrium more than one?firm might develop the green good, but such an equilibrium outcome is not necessarily...
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Coalition formation in a global warming game : how the design of protocols affects the success of environmental treaty-making
EYCKMANS, Johan; FINUS, Michael - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2003
We combine the newest concepts o non-cooperative coalition theory with a computable general equilibrium model close to … theory that in the case of greenhouse gases stable coalition structures (partial cooperation) can close the gap between the … the seminal RICE-model of Nordhaus and Yang (1996) to determine stable coalition structures in a global warming game. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005043184
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Game Theoretic Research on the Design of International Environmental Agreements: Insights, Critical Remarks, and Future Challenges
Finus, Michael - In: International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics 2 (2008) 1, pp. 29-67
agreements (IEAs) using the method of game theory has sharply increased. This paper reports on some recent results that shall … demonstrate the usefulness but also the limitation of game theory for the analysis of IEAs. It restricts attention to the class of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990871
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Community-Based Well Maintenance in Rural Haiti
Aliprantis, Dionissi - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
The international community has pledged 11 billion dollars to Haiti, a country where non-governmental organizations (NGOs) provide nearly all public goods and services. This raises at least two questions: How can NGOs most effectively perform their own work, and how can NGOs integrate their...
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Managerial ownership and urban water utilities efficiency in Uganda
Mbuvi, Dorcas; Tarsim, Achraf - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
This paper assesses the impact of the early 1980s neoliberalistic reform strategies in urban water distribution in developing countries. It examines in particular, the technical efficiency of two heterogeneous urban water utility-groups in Uganda. Performance is considered in light of the key...
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Political affiliation and willingness to pay: An examination of the nature of benefits and means of provision
Dupont, Diane P.; Bateman, Ian J. - In: Ecological Economics 75 (2012) C, pp. 43-51
Non-market techniques are widely used for valuing environmental goods and services. Recent articles obtain results showing respondents to the right of the political spectrum are significantly less likely to vote in favour of environmental programs that provide public goods through public means....
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Water Markets in the West: Prices, Trading, and Contractual Forms
Libecap, Gary D.; Brewer, Jedidiah; Glennon, Robert; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Rising urban and environmental demand for water has created growing pressure to re-allocate water from traditional agricultural uses. The evolution of water markets has been more complicated than those for other resources. In this paper, we first explain these differences by examining water...
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The Political Economy of International Emissions Trading Scheme Choice: A Theoretical Analysis
Boom, Jan-Tjeerd; Svendsen, Gert Tinggaard - In: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 156 (2000) 4, pp. 548-548
The Kyoto Protocol allows emissions trading between the Annex B countries. We consider three schemes of emissions trading: government trading, permit trading, and credit trading. The schemes are compared in a public choice setting focusing on group size and rent-seeking by interest groups. We...
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Pricing with changing welfare criterion: An application of Ramsey-Wilson model to urban water supply
Pushpangadan, K.; Murugan, G. - Centre for Development Studies (CDS) - 1998
. Price elasticity is obtained from household expenditure data by applying recoverability theory suggested by Pollak and Wales …
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