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Essays on environmental and public economics
Williams, Roberton C. (contributor);  … - 2011
This dissertation is a collection of three essays in the fields of environmental and public economics. The first essay assesses the effect of government spending on charitable donations to environmental causes. Using a theoretical model, I solve for changes in private donations due to increased...
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Green Giving: An Analysis of Contributions to Major U.S. Environmental Groups
Richer, Jerrell - 1995
Data are compiled from the tax records of 29 major environmental organizations for the period 1980-1994 to identify factors that influence voluntary contributions. I examine the effects of organizational characteristics, such as fundraising expenditures and alternative sources of revenue, along...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445425
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Altruism and Egoism: Measurable by Utility Discount Rates?
Bayer, Stefan - 2000
intergenerationellen Gleichbehandlungspostulat des Utilitarismus Genüge getan. In der Altruismus-Modellierung ergibt sich das methodische … Problem der mehrfachen Berücksichtigung des selben Effektes. Altruismus ist um so stärker ausgeprägt, je geringer die … Altruismus oder Egoismus verwenden läßt. Abschließend werden unsere Überlegungen auf den Klimaschutzfall angewendet …
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Foundations for Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
Ahn, Toh-Kyeong - 2001
altruism, and (3) the possibility of sustained mutual cooperation in finitely repeated social dilemmas is affected by the …
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Microanalyses of Voting, Regulation and Higher Education
Meya, Johannes - 2015
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Pursuing Manufacturing-Based Export-Led Growth: Are Developing Countries Increasingly Crowding Each Other Out?
Razmi, Arslan - 2006
This study empirically investigates the presence of crowding out effects emerging from intra- developing country competition in export markets for manufactured goods. Export equations are estimated for a panel consisting of twenty major developing country exporters of manufactures, after...
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THE ROLE OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN THE FIRM SELECTION PROCESS IN A HOST COUNTRY: EVIDENCE FROM SLOVENIA
Kejûar, Katja Zajc - 2006
This paper examines the role of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in firm selection processes in the Slovenian manufacturing sector in the 1994-2003 period by assessing the impact of the entry and presence of foreign firms on a domestic firm’s probability of exiting. The results confirm...
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R&D investment and endogenous growth : a SVAR approach
Estrada García, Angel; Montero Montero, José Manuel - 2009
We develop the barebones of a highly stylized theoretical endogenous growth model for analyzing the impact of R&D investment on long run growth. We use this framework to identify a structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model on GDP growth, inflation and R&D investment, along with the...
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Sovereign debt markets in turbulent times : creditor discrimination and crowding-out effects
Broner, Fernando; Martín, Alberto; Ventura, Jaume; …
En 2007, los países de la periferia europea disfrutaban de un crecimiento estable, y défi cits fi scales y primas de riesgo reducidos. Sin embargo, la crisis fi nanciera global empujó a estas mismas economías a profundas recesiones, aumentando sus défi cits públicos y volúmenes de deuda...
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