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Theory of regional stability as a public good: examples from Southern Africa

Nota, Fungisai - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 4 (2009) 2, pp. 6-14

The article examines the interaction of countries in the same region when making efforts to achieve stability. The … leader in regional initiatives that foster stability is likely to be the most vulnerable member of the region because in the … stability, the regional public good, giving its neighbors the opportunity to free-ride. …

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Efficient decentralized leadership under hybrid work and attachment to regions

Aoyama, Naoto; Silva, Emilson C. D. - In: Games 14 (2023) 2, pp. 1-18

Under the 'new normal' in the labor market, individuals can work remotely or in person, a hybrid work mode that became ubiquitous during the pandemic. This paper studies the efficiency of decentralized leadership in federations in which hybrid work is the modus operandi. Self-interested regional...

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Chapter 10 Taxation

Kaplow, Louis - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 647-755). 2007

This Handbook entry presents a conceptual, normative overview of the subject of taxation. It emphasizes the relationships among the main functions of taxation—notably, raising revenue, redistributing income, and correcting externalities—and the mapping between these functions and various...

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Accounting for adaptation and its effectiveness in International Environmental Agreements

Furini, Francesco; Bosello, Francesco - In: Environmental Economics and Policy Studies 23 (2020) 2, pp. 467-493

This paper analyses, within a standard International Environmental Agreement game, the effect of the introduction of adaptation on climate negotiation. The model expands the existing literature by considering a double relation between the two strategies. The common assumption that higher...

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Rent seeking and regime stability in rentier states

Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Naghavi, Alireza - In: European Journal of Political Economy 27 (2011) 4, pp. 740-748

Are natural resources a source of conflict or stability? Empirical studies demonstrate that rents from natural … source of conflict and the rentier state view which emphasizes the role of resource rents in promoting peace and stability … struggle. We demonstrate that the associated increased cost of conflict may in fact promote regime stability. The peaceful …

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Effective support for community resource management

Ansink, Erik; Bouma, Jetske - In: Forest Policy and Economics 37 (2013) C, pp. 94-103

literature on international environmental agreements to analyse the stability of such coalitions. A novel observation that we …

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Budgetary Dilemmas Related to Climate Change

Kutasi, Gábor - In: REVISTA FINANZAS Y POLÍTICA ECONÓMICA (2015)

ABSTRACT The global warming –either it is true or false hypothesis– has been built into the policy making both in national and international level. Public finances are recommended to be involved into the funding of mitigation and adaptation. The purpose of the paper is to gather the...

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Think Locally, Act Locally: Spillovers, Spillbacks, and Efficient Decentralized Policymaking

Ogawa, Hikaru; Wildasin, David E. - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 4, pp. 1206-17

We analyze models with interjurisdictional spillovers among heterogeneous jurisdictions, such as CO2 emissions that affect the global environment. Each jurisdiction's emissions depend upon the local stock of capital, which is interjurisdictionally mobile and subject to local taxation. In...

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Think locally, act locally: spillovers, spillbacks, and efficient decentralized policymaking

Ogawa, Hikaru; Wildasin, David E. - In: The American economic review 99 (2009) 4, pp. 1206-1217

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Self-enforcing collective counterterror retaliation

Oliveira, André L.; Silva, Emilson C. D. - In: Games 13 (2022) 1, pp. 1-16

Motivated by recent examples of collective effort on the war on terror, we examine the incentives that retaliation may produce for the endogenous formation of an international counterterror coalition. We show that there are quite reasonable circumstances under which any nation that is a target...

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