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regulation has been a frequent source of controversy and investor-state disputes. In order to enhance the factual basis for …
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The Mexican Ethanol Project has the potential of power up rural economy, improve the environment quality, and substitute the non-renewable fossil energy resources. But the risk of not achieving these is latent: the market distorts that it could unleash can change the expected outcomes. Public...
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Die Regulierung von Märkten für innovative digitale Produkte und Dienste wirft eine Reihe grundsätzlicher Fragen auf … bislang weitgehend nationale Marktperspektive bei der Regulierung erscheint mit Blick auf wachsende Direktinvestitionen in der …
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Much recent political economy and political science literature views democracy in terms of political rights. This view …, often referred to as electoral democracy, is particularly pronounced in the empirical literature. We reincorporate the role … of civil liberties, which are at the core of modern democracy, in two ways. We identify four fundamental sources of …
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This paper develops a general equilibrium model to measure welfare effects of taxes for correcting environmental externalities caused by domestic trade, focusing on exter- nalities that arise through exports. Externalities from exports come from a number of sources. Domestically owned ships,...
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This paper is the first to examine the public economics of export-based externalities arising within the provisioning of ecosystem services, with direct application to policies to prevent the spread of hitchhiking invasive species. We find when risk enters through exports, policy makers face a...
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This paper incorporates the interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics and suggests a holistic framework for analysis of management agro-ecosystem services. That new approach for analyses and assessment of management of agro-ecosystem services includes: definition of the...
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The last three decades have seen an important surge of the non-governmental sector in the provision of foreign aid. Using NGOs to deliver aid can be a solution to bypass corrupt authorities, avoiding that aid resources are captured by local elites. However NGOs may also act as surrogates for...
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through the extension of franchise. This is because democracy always implements a highly redistributive fiscal policy, which … makes fighting hard incentive-compatible for the citizens-soldiers. We show that a transition to democracy is more likely to …
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