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Why Not One Big Database? Principles for Data Ownership

Van Alstyne, Marshall W.; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Madnick, … - 2014

This research addresses incentive principles that drive information sharing and affect database value. Many real world centralization and standardization efforts have failed, typically because departments lacked incentives or needed greater local autonomy. While intangible factors such as...

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Contagion and spillovers : new insights from the crisis : a joint publication with the Austrian Society for Bank Research

Backé, Peter (ed.); Gnan, Ernest (ed.); … - Contagion and Spillovers – New Insights from the …; … - 2010

year's subject of "Contagion and Spillovers – New Insights from the Crisis" turned out to be particularly topical, as first …

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Terrorism and the State

Konrad, Kai A. - 2011

This paper considers terrorism as an extortion activity. It uses tools from the theory of extortion and from conflict theory to describe how terrorism works, why terrorism is a persistent phenomenon, why terrorism is a violent phenomenon, and how retaliation affects the outcome. The analysis...

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Public Debt and the Political Economy of Reforms

Boyer, Pierre C.; Esslinger, Christoph; Roberson, Brian - 2021

We develop a two-period model of redistributive politics in which two politicians compete in an election in each period. In the first period, the politicians propose both whether to experiment with an efficient reform with uncertain benefits and choose the amount of public debt. Politicians also...

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The political economy of international environmental agreements : a survey

Wangler, Leo; Altamirano-Cabrera, Juan-Carlos; Weikard, … - 2011

This paper surveys the recent literature on the political economy of the formation of international environmental agreements. The survey covers theoretical modelling approaches and empirical studies including experimental work. Central to our survey is the question how the political process...

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Policy reforms and the amount of checks & balances

Gersbach, Hans; Tejada, Oriol; Wagner, Julia - 2022

We examine how democracies choose their amount of checks and balances (C&B). For this purpose, we consider a simple model of political competition with costly policy reforms. The cost of a marginal reform is determined endogenously at the constitutional phase-i.e. before policies are...

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Technology Spillovers and Stability of International Climate Coalitions

Nagashima, Miyuki; Dellink, Rob - 2015

investigate stability of partial climate coalitions. Technology spillovers to coalition members increase their incentives to stay … theories on the impact of technology spillovers are evaluated by simulating a range of alternative specifications. We find that … while spillovers are a good instrument to improve stability of bilateral agreements, they cannot overcome the strong free …

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Contagion and spillovers : new insights from the crisis

Backé, Peter (contributor); Nowotny, Ewald (contributor) - 2010

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Allocation of adaptation aid : a normative theory

Mukherjee, Vivekananda; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G.; Stahlke, … - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 242 (2022) 4, pp. 471-499

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Coalition Formation Under Uncertainty : The Stability Likelihood of an International Climate Agreement

Dellink, Rob; Finus, Michael; Olieman, Niels - 2013

Results derived from empirical analyses on the stability of climate coalitions are usually very sensitive to the large uncertainties associated with the benefits and costs of climate policies. This paper provides the methodology of Stability Likelihood that links uncertainty about benefits and...

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