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the effects of the film Basilicata Coast to Coast, by Rocco Papaleo, on tourism in Basilicata, (a small region in the …
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proposing a new resource policy for the oil-rich southern Italian region of Basilicata. The policy proposal is to establish a … (regional) wealth fund in which all the royalty revenues from non-renewable natural resource exploitation in Basilicata would be … is a novel approach that can be applied to other resource-rich regions in the world. I label the fund as the Basilicata …
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argumentation, we outline some of the good practices present in Basilicata, which for several years now has been experimenting with …
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This study explores the economic consequences of earthquakes. In particular, it is investigated how exposure to earthquakes affects economic growth both across and within countries. The key result of the empirical analysis is that while there are no observable effects at the country level,...
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After severe disasters, persons living not only in the directly affected areas, but also in distant areas could be seriously affected thorough images of the disaster on television and in newspapers. Hence, it can be difficult to define qualified beneficiaries for policy compensation in terms of...
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Prediction markets have been shown to generate fairly accurate odds of various events occurring in the future. The forthcoming possibility of natural disasters provides, on occasion, an opportunity for a bet, yet no wide scale and accepted prediction market has arisen despite its obvious...
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We use panel data from El Salvador and investigate the intra-household allocation of labor as a risk-coping strategy. Adverse agricultural productivity shocks both increased male migration to the US and male agricultural labor supply. This is not a contradiction if there were non-monotonic...
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The two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999, not only caused enormous amounts of death, destruction and suffering, but also exposed rampant government corruption involving construction and zoning code violations. The incompetence shown by the government in providing...
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We use panel data from El Salvador to investigate migration and the intra-household allocation of labor as a strategy for coping with uninsured risk. Consistent with a model of a farm household with a binding subsistence constraint, we show that adverse agricultural productivity shocks increased...
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Ungeachtet politischer Differenzen zwischen Berlin und Ankara verzeichnete der deutsch-türkische Handel 2022 neue Rekordwerte. Von einer Krise für deutsche Unter­nehmen, die sich in der Türkei betätigen, kann kaum die Rede sein. Gleichwohl stellen sich zahlreiche Herausforderungen, die...
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