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Bundling biodiversity
Heal, Geoffrey - 2002
Biodiversity provides essential services to human societies. Many of these services are provided as public goods, so that they will typically be underprovided both by market mechanisms (because of the impossibility of excluding non-payers from using the services) and by government-run systems...
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National Interference in Local Public Good Provision
Dur, Robert; Staal, Klaas - 2003
We analyze a simple model of local public good provision in a country consisting of a large number of heterogeneous regions, each comprising two districts, a city and a village. When districts remain autonomous and local public goods have positive spillover effects on the neighbouring district,...
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Capital tax competition and household mobility
Eggert, Wolfgang - 1995
Capital tax competition is analyzed in a model with a single private and a locally supplied public consumption good. As a benchmark case necessary conditions for efficient interregional tax structures are derived and contrasted with the outcome of beggar thy neighbor strategies. If households...
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The impact of a Customs Union with the EU on internal migration in Turkey under the two alternative Harris-Todaro and wage curve settings
De Santis, Roberto A. - 1998
The impact on internal migration of the recent Customs Union (CU) agreement between Turkey and the European Union (EU) has been studied with an intra-industry trade Applied General Equilibrium (AGE) model with intersectoral capital mobility, under two alternative specifications for the labour...
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Sluggishness, Endogeneity and the Demand for Local Public Services
Dahlberg, Matz; Jacob, Johanna - 2000
Earlier studies estimating the demand for local public services by means of the median voter model have typically assumed exogenous regressors and static set-ups. Furthermore, the commonly used log-linear specification of the demand function has in most cases not been supported by a well-defined...
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Valuing local public goods with advanced stated preference models: Traffic calming schemes in Northern England
Scarpa, Riccardo; Garrod, Guy D.; Willis, Kenneth G. - 2001
The paper reports the results of three stated preference surveys in urban-rural areas in Northern England. The objective is that of valuing the economic benefits from traffic calming schemes in two areas with different traffic problems from stated preference observations. Both choice-experiments...
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Decentralisation and Poverty Reduction: A Conceptual Framework for the Economic Impact
Steiner, Susan - 2005
political impact channels. It concentrates on the economic channel, the reasoning of which is rooted in fiscal federalism theory …
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A Unified Framework for Estimating Preferences for Schools and Neighborhoods
Bayer, Patrick; Ferreira, Fernando; McMillan, Robert - 2003
This paper sets out a framework for estimating household preferences over a broad range of housing and neighborhood characteristics, some of which are determined by the way that households sort in the housing market. This framework brings together the treatment of heterogeneity and selection...
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Leadership and influence: Evidence from an artefactual field experiment on local public good provision
D'Adda, Giovanna - 2011
This paper studies the effect of leadership on the level and evolution of pro-social behavior using an artefactual field experiment on local public good provision. Participants decide how much to contribute to an actual conservation project. They can then revise their donations after being...
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Examination of Intense Climate-related Disasters in the Asia-Pacific
Thomas, Vinod; Albert, Jose Ramon G.; Perez, Rosa T. - 2012
climate change. Associated with these natural disasters are more variable and extreme rainfall and temperatures as recorded in … intense natural disasters. The economies along coastal areas in South, Southeast (for example the Philippines), and East Asia … urgent need for economies not only to adapt their exposure and capacity in relation to natural disasters, but also to …
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