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The Kyoto Protocol: A Review and Perspectives
Böhringer, Christoph - 2003
International concern about climate change has led to the Kyoto Protocol, negotiated in 1997, which contains legally binding emission targets for industrialized countries to be achieved during the commitment period 2008-2012. While proponents of the Protocol celebrate it as a breakthrough in...
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Benefit-Cost Analysis in Global Health
Robinson, Lisa A. - 2017
Decisions on investing in health as well as other policies require deciding how to best allocate available resources - recognizing that using labor, materials, and other resources for one purpose means that they cannot be used for other purposes. Approaches for economic evaluation, including...
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Wirtschaftsethische Überlegungen zum Klimawandel
Dilger, Alexander - 2020
Naturwissenschaftliche Fragen rund um den Klimawandel sind von Naturwissenschaftlern zu beantworten. Ökonomen und Wirtschaftsethiker können jedoch dazu beitragen, den Klimawandel und mögliche Gegenmaßnahmen zu bewerten. Dabei ist ein einheitlicher Preis für die Emission von Treibhausgasen...
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Using National Border Climate Adjustment Schemes to Facilitate Global Greenhouse Gas Management in Industrial Production
Khrebtukova, Alexandra - 2010
An appropriately conceived and well-designed border climate adjustment scheme, as a policy mechanism potentially utilizable by many States party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, may lead to desirable consequences for the development of comprehensive global greenhouse...
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Valuing Risks of Death from Terrorism and Natural Disasters
Viscusi, W. Kip - 2012
This paper uses a random utility model to examine stated preferences for the valuation of public risks of fatalities from terrorist attacks and natural disasters. Traffic-related deaths serve as the common reference point in two series of pairwise risk-risk tradeoff choices. Even after taking...
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Vaccination policy and trust
Jelnov, Artyom; Jelnov, Pavel - 2021
We study the relationship between trust and vaccination. We show theoretically that vaccination rates are higher in … find that countries perceived as less corrupt and more liberal experience higher vaccination rates. Furthermore, they are … less likely to adopt a mandatory vaccination policy. One unit of the Corruption Perception Index (scaled from 0 to 10) is …
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An old plug and a new virus : effect of public corruption on the Covid-19 immunization progress
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Hofmann, Hans Philipp - 2021
. There has been significant cross-country variation in the vaccination of people against COVID-19. In this study, we focus on … countries with a higher degree of public corruption before the pandemic have been less successful in the vaccination of their …
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Vaccination policy and trust
Jelnov, Artyom; Jelnov, Pavel - 2021
We study the relationship between trust and vaccination. We show theoretically that vaccination rates are higher in … find that countries perceived as less corrupt and more liberal experience higher vaccination rates. Furthermore, they are … less likely to adopt a mandatory vaccination policy. One unit of the Corruption Perception Index (scaled from 0 to 10) is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012795462
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Coronavirus and the Economic Value of Human Life
Jessop, Julian - 2021
COVID-19 has revealed familiar problems in health economics and cost-benefit analysis and the "tragic choices" that sometimes must be made. Policymakers frequently have to attach a monetary value to a human life based on the number of years that a person might have left to live and that life's...
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Contagion, Migration and Misallocation in a Pandemic
Tang, Ke; Xie, Danxia; Zhang, Longtian - 2021
We present a multi-city economic model to study the endogenous choice of migration and to evaluate various policy alternatives during a pandemic. We combine a traditional epidemic dynamic model with endogenous migration decisions between cities and provide analytical solutions under two...
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