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Governance for sustainability: Towards a 'thick' understanding of environmental decision making

Andger, William Neil; Brown, Katrina; Fairbrass, Jenny; … - 2002

Environmental decisions made by individuals, civil society and the state involve questions of economic efficiency, environmental effectiveness, equity and political legitimacy. These four criteria are constitutive of economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development, which...

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New institutional economics and the environment: Conceptual foundations and policy implications

Paavola, Jouni; Adger, William Neil - 2002

This paper reviews literature in and around new institutional economics to assess its contributions to, and limitations in, research on environmental decision-making and governance. The paper also proposes ways to increase the fruitfulness of new institutional approach for environmental...

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Valuing nature: Lessons learned and future research directions

Turner, R. Kerry; Paavola, Jouni; Cooper, Phillip; … - 2002

This paper critically reviews the literature on environmental valuation of ecosystem services across the range of global biomes. The main objective of this review is to assess the policy relevance of the information encompassed by the wide range of valuation studies that have been undertaken so...

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Tough love or unconditional charity?

Bougheas, Spiros; Dasgupta, Indraneel; Morrissey, Oliver - 2005

Charitable giving has increasingly become ‘tough love’ - it has come to require recipients to undertake costly prior action. A common justification is that of greater efficiency: willingness to undertake costly actions signals greater productivity from transfers. However, there is a...

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Development policy lending, conditionality and ownership: A political economy model

Paloni, Alberto; Zanardi, Maurizio - 2005

Is the World Bank’s Development Policy Lending likely to enhance ownership and have greater effectiveness than structural adjustment? We specify a dynamic common agency model in which a government committed to reform faces domestic opposition from interest groups. The dynamic specification,...

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Women or children? Intra-household redistribution under gender-asymmetric altruism

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2007

In developing societies, social norms typically ascribe differential weights to paternal, maternal and communal (or state) contributions to children’s expenses. Individuals internalize these valuations. I examine a Cournot model of voluntary contribution to children’s goods in a twoadult...

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Conditionality and fragility in long-term financial contracts

Bougheas, Spiros; Dasgupta, Indraneel; Morrissey, Oliver - 2007

Lenders condition future loans on some index of past performance. Typically, banks condition future loans on repayments of earlier obligations while international organizations condition future loans on the implementation of some policy conditions. We build an agency model that accounts for...

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Über die Natur und das Wesen des Geldes: Johann Heinrich von Thünens unveröffentlichter Beitrag zur Geldtheorie

Nellinger, Ludwig - 2009

questions and preparing Thünen's theory of capital and interest. Thünen starts his analysis with a description of the … extended quantity theory of money by introducing the velocity of money transactions and formulating the correct algebraic … twentieth century and from the perspective of modern monetary theory, Thünen's drafts are an unexpected discovery and of …

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A technical note on comparative dynamics in a fiscal competition model

Becker, Daniel Thomas - 2008

This note discusses the comparative dynamic analysis in 'Fiscal competition in space and time' by David Wildas in (Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 87, 2003) from a technical point of view.

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Does signaling work in markets for information services? An empirical investigation for insurance intermediaries in Germany

Eckardt, Martina - 2007

instruments work as credible signals. Our findings confirm the main hypotheses derived from signaling theory as to the poor …

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