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Vesperoni, Alberto; Schweinzer, Paul - 2018

framework to think about the interlinkages between various measures of urban development which became increasingly available …

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Should green governments give priority to environmental policies over growth-enhancing policies?

Economides, George; Philippopoulos, Apostolis - 2005

This paper studies the properties of second-best optimal policy in a standard general equilibrium model of growth augmented with renewable natural resources. The government chooses its policy instruments (the income tax rate and the allocation of collected tax revenues between public investment...

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Prevention and Mitigation of Epidemics: Biodiversity Conservation and Confinement Policies

Augeraud-Véron, Emmanuelle; Fabbri, Giorgio; Schubert, … - 2020

This paper presents a ﬁrst model integrating the relation between biodiversity loss and zoonose pandemic risks in a general equilibrium dynamic economic set-up. The occurrence of pandemics is modeled as Poissonian leaps in economic variables. The planner can intervene in the economic and...

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Understanding Climate Damages: Consumption versus Investment

Casey, Gregory P.; Fried, Stephie; Gibson, Matthew - 2021

Existing climate-economy models use aggregate damage functions to model the effects of climate change. This approach assumes climate change has equal impacts on the productivity of firms that produce consumption and investment goods or services. We show the split between damage to consumption...

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Knowing the Damages is not Enough: The General Equilibrium Impacts of Climate Change

Kalkuhl, Matthias; Edenhofer, Ottmar - 2016

We show that economies may exhibit a strong endogenous macroeconomic adaptation response to climate change. If climate change induces a structural change to the more productive sector, economies can benefit from climate change though productivities in both sectors are reduced. If climate change...

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Prevention and Mitigation of Epidemics : Biodiversity Conservation and Confinement Policies

Augeraud-Véron, Emmanuelle - 2020

This paper presents a first model integrating the relation between biodiversity loss and zoonose pandemic risks in a general equilibrium dynamic economic set-up. The occurrence of pandemics is modeled as Poissonian leaps in economic variables. The planner can intervene in the economic and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824824

Caught between Cultures: Unintended Consequences of Improving Opportunity for Immigrant Girls

Dahl, Gordon B.; Felfe, Christina; Frijters, Paul; … - 2020

explain the otherwise puzzling findings from a reform which granted automatic birthright citizenship to eligible immigrant … the months before versus after the reform, we find that birthright citizenship lowers measures of life satisfaction and … salient. Birthright citizenship results in disillusionment where immigrant Muslim girls believe their chances of achieving …

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Naturalization and Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Saif, Salwan - 2018

Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental...

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Taxation with a Grain of Salt: The Long-Term Effect of Fiscal Policy on Local Development

Giommoni, Tommaso; Loumeau, Gabriel - 2022

This paper studies the long-term effect of taxation on economic geography and development. We rely on a unique natural … on economic geography and development. These effects are, then, confirmed in a DiD analysis, that studies a very large …

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Cross-Border Patenting, Globalization, and Development

LaBelle, Jesse; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - 2023

development. Our theory delivers a gravity equation for cross-border patents. To test the model's predictions, we compile a new …

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