Search Results - subject:"Institutional Design"

Boards of directors in international organizations: A framework for understanding the dilemmas of institutional design

Martinez-Diaz, Leonardo - In: The Review of International Organizations 4 (2009) 4, pp. 383-406

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Context-Dependent Biodiversity Conservation Management Regimes

Gjertsen, Heidi; Behr, Diji Chandrasekharan - 2000

"The central challenge of tropical biodiversity conservation involves reconciling private and social incentives to 'internalize' externalities. Positive externalities of natural resource conservation accrue at the local, national and global levels, although the costs of conservation are...

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Common Pool Funds for Common Pool Resources: Creating a New Global Financial Architecture

Epstein, Paul R. - 2000

"Financial mechanisms to secure rational use of Common Pool Resources (CPRs) are rarely addressed. While implementation plans and Governance structures remain difficult issues, funds and incentives may be needed to achieve measures agreed upon in international conventions. "Resources and...

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The Tradable Permits Approach to Protecting the Commons: What Have We Learned?

Tietenberg, Tom - 2000

"One of the new institutional forms of coping with the problem of rationing access to the commons involves the use of tradable permits. Applications of this approach have spread to many different types of resources and many different countries. The most common applications involve the control of...

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Paradigmas diferentes, fallas comunes: hacia un nuevo enfoque del federalismo en Estados Unidos

Gordon, Mark C. - In: Revista de Economía Institucional 2 (2000) July-december, pp. 44-79

This article presents a new approach to federalism that focus more on the outcome desired than on formal power relationships, considers more realistically the role played by states and localities, and incorporates the role of citizens more directly in the analysis. This approach underlines,...

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Cooperation in a Hydro-Geologic Commons: New Institutions and Pricing to Achieve Sustainability and Security

Loehman, Edna T.; Becker, Nir; Weg, Eythan; Hendrickx, … - 1999

"We propose a regional cooperative water management system that combines aspects of a nonprofit regional utility and a representative governing body. The conceptual basis is temporal economic efficiency. To help the utility make acceptable management decisions, a representative body of water...

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Deciding between development and preservation of a natural asset: a way out of the impasse?

Schilizzi, Steven - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 1999

Many environmental policy issues involve conflicts between nature conservation and economic development. The economic rationale behind deciding among alternative options is predicated on some form of benefit-cost analysis (BCA). Key issues to date have been non-market valuation, the...

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Disegno delle istituzioni e stabilità finanziaria nell'Unione Monetaria Europea

Lossani, Marco; Natale, Piergiovanna; Tirelli, Patrizio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999

In this paper, the consequences on financial stability of the institutional design envisaged in the Maastricht Treaty … externalities across jurisdictions. The present institutional design does not allow EMU to benefit from the internalization of these … subsidiarity to the problem of power sharing between ECB and NCBs, the following suggestions for a revision of the institutional …

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Applying the Methodology of Mechanism Design To the Choice of Electoral Systems

Kinsey, Barbara Sgouraki; Shvetsova, Olga - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 20 (2008) 3, pp. 303-327

In this article we inquire into the strategic intent behind the design of election laws. Presuming that institutional designers are strategic and rational, we identify the extent of information incompleteness as determining their objectives for rule choice. For different levels of information...

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Activists, raiders, and directors: Opportunism and the balance of corporate power

Noe, Thomas H.; Rebello, Michael J. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

We model corporate governance in a world with competitive securities markets as well as markets for corporate assets. We show that varying the liquidity and opacity of corporate assets, the vitality of the market for corporate control, and the costs of enforcing shareholder rights to cash...

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