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The establishment of a tradable permit market requires the regulator to select a level of aggregate emissions and then distribute the associated permits (rent) to specific groups. In most circumstances, these decisions are often politically contentious and frequently influenced by rent seeking...
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The establishment of a tradable permit market requires the regulator to select a level of aggregate emissions and then distribute the associated permits (rent) to specific groups. In most circumstances, these decisions are often politically contentious and frequently influenced by rent seeking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465961
"Fisheries management by individual transferable quotas (ITQ's) is being advocated by several fisheries economists as a solution to 'tragedy of commons' situations in the fisheries. Until lately, the studies of ITQ's have been purely theoretical, but now it is possible to study how the system...
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There is growing consensus on the view that corruption hurts economic performance by reducing private investment, by … –, corruption also has adverse distributional effects as it hurts the poor disproportionately. For a given level of government … budget and national income, high corruption countries achieve lower literacy rates, have higher mortality rates, and overall …
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results of an extensive ethnographic field study of the 2006 to 2008 Siemens corruption scandal. We find that this event did … corporate corruption with regard to its regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive dimensions. It is therefore particularly … perspective we reconstruct the development of the institutional context of the phenomenon corruption as well as its effects on the …
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Seit dem Ende der Bretton-Woods Ära haben zahlreiche Bankenkrisen Volkswirtschaften immense Kosten auferlegt. Die vorliegende Studie beschäftigt sich mit den politökonomischen Einflussfaktoren auf die Tiefe dieser Bankenkrisen. Es wird argumentiert, dass nur schnelle und tiefgreifende...
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welfare through their decisions. Yet, cases of central bank corruption abound. The dissertation provides examples of ?pure …? corruption in central banks. Only a few studies address corruption and similar, but not necessarily criminal, behavior of central … bank employees and governors, even though corruption in the central bank is obviously possible. By the very nature of their …
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in and that put their clout for the fight against corruption in question. Against this background, three novel anti-corruption …. What is more, legislation can also take advantage of these chinks to fight corruption effectively.In Section II it is … United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) are used as benchmarks. In addition, the respective legal provisions …
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In this paper, we study the effects of bureaucratic corruption on fiscal policy and the subsequent impact on economic … growth. Here corruption takes three forms: (i) it reduces the tax revenue raised from households, (ii) it inflates the volume … corruption impacts upon growth, and the conditions under which the direction of the effect takes shape. The findings from our …
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Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …
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