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The opportunity costs of conservation with deterministic and probabilistic degradation externalities
Blanco, Esther; Lopez, Maria Claudia; Walker, James M. - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2012
, appropriation leads to deterministic degradation in the value of the commons. In the second game, appropriation leads to both … conserving the commons. The experimental design abstracts away from path-dependent group dynamics that allow for reputation … due to expected losses in the value of the commons. …
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Allocating a voluntarily provided common-property resource: An experimental examination
Stoddard, Brock; Walker, James M.; Williams, Arlington - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 101 (2014) C, pp. 141-155
allocating the resource to providers. Three allocation mechanisms are investigated: “allocator,” “tremble,” and “egalitarian …
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A theory of ethnic diversity and income distribution: A legislative bargaining approach
Tsuchimoto Menkyna, Fusako - In: European Journal of Political Economy 34 (2014) C, pp. 52-67
In this paper, I examine how the two dimensions of income inequality and ethnic diversity affect the formation of political coalitions and the reallocation of income. I construct a legislative bargaining model to analyze when coalitions form along the income dimension and when it forms along the...
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Tensions Between the Resource Damage and the Private Benefits of Appropriation in the Commons
Blanco, Esther; Lopez, Maria Claudia; Walker, James M. - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2013
This study examines appropriation decisions in a linear appropriation game setting with variations in the resource damage from appropriation and simultaneous variations in the resource damage and the opportunity cost of conservation, where the ratio of these two variables is held constant. In...
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Limited Liability, Moral Hazard and Risk Taking - A Safety Net Game Experiment
Neugebauer, Tibor; Füllbrunn, Sascha - Luxembourg School of Finance, Faculté de droit, … - 2010
smaller than predicted by theory. In comparison to the deterministic benchmark, individuals take higher loss avoidance levels …
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Benefit incidence analysis, needs and demography. Measurement issues and an empirical study for Kenya
Gaddis, Isis; Demery, Lionel - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2012
Benefit incidence analysis is an extremely popular tool to assess the distribution of benefits from government expenditure in developing countries, particularly in the social sectors. The analysis describes the welfare impact of public spending on groups of people or households, typically along...
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Public Investment Policy, Distribution, and Growth: What Levels of Redistribution through Public Investment Maximize Growth?
Getachew, Yoseph Yilma - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2011
This paper studies the distributional and the growth effects of public investment in a simple growth model with incomplete market where both growth and inequality are endogenously determined. Taxation lowers growth through distorting private investment, whereas public investment stimulates long...
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Informal environmental regulation of industrial air pollution: Does neighborhood inequality matter?
Zwickl, Klara; Moser, Mathias - Vienna University of Economics and Business, Department … - 2014
This paper analyzes if neighborhood income inequality has an effect on informal regulation of environmental quality, using census tract-level data on industrial air pollution exposure from EPA’s Risk Screening Environmental Indicators and income and demographic variables from the American...
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Social background, education and inequality
Andersen, Torben M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
The role of social background for educational choices and outcomes is considered in an overlapping generations setting. It is shown that the impediments for education created by social factors are similar to a market imperfection, and publicly provided education may lead to a Pareto improvement....
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Conundrums in public distribution system in India: an assessment by states and social groups
Goli, Srinivas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Growing number of studies accentuated enigmas in PDS system, many of them provided evidences based on National Sample Survey (NSS) and other official statistics, more particularly by major states. Many of them also highlighted theoretical and operational difficulties in existing policy...
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