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World Heritage List : Does it Make Sense?

Frey, Bruno S. - 2010

The UNESCO World Heritage List contains the 900 most treasured Sites of humanity's culture and landscapes. The World …

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Making World Heritage Truly Global : The Culture Certificate Scheme

Frey, Bruno S. - 2014

Culture has attributes of a global public good that needs to be preserved for mankind as a whole. World Culture … Certificates are proposed to efficiently preserve World Heritage. The community of nations has to agree on the Global Heritage List … and how much each nation is to contribute to that purpose. Each World Heritage site conserved is acknowledged through the …

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World Heritage : Where are We? An Empirical Analysis

Frey, Bruno S.; Pamini, Paolo - 2021

An empirical overview of the UNESCO World Heritage List according to various characteristics is presented. The … officially stated intention of the World Heritage List is to protect global heritage. Our focus is on the imbalance of the … considered “balanced” from different points of view. It turns out that the World Heritage List is unbalanced with respect to a …

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Do Economic Crises Lead Tourists to Closer Destinations? An Analysis of Italy's Regional Data

Cafiso, Gianluca - 2015

This article investigates whether the distance between origin and destination has played an increased role in shaping Italy's domestic tourism flows during the recent years of economic recession. Indeed, the occurrence of closer tourism destinations, as a consequence of the economic crisis, has...

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Shop Around and You Pay More

Yan, Ji; Tian, Kun; Dixon, Huw D.; Heravi, Saeed; … - CESifo - 2014

We examine the relationship between the prices paid by households and their shopping patterns measured in terms of shopping frequency and the range of stores visited. We use the TNS data which allows us to control for household heterogeneity. The main contribution of the paper is that we find...

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A Theory of Crowdfunding - A Mechanism Design Approach with Demand Uncertainty and Moral Hazard

Strausz, Roland - 2016

Crowdfunding provides innovation in enabling entrepreneurs to contract with consumers before investment. Under aggregate demand uncertainty, this improves screening for valuable projects. Entrepreneurial moral hazard and private cost information threatens this benefit. Despite these threats,...

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Sales Performance and Social Preferences

Essl, Andrea; Bieberstein, Frauke von; Kosfeld, Michael; … - 2021

We use an incentivized experimental game to uncover heterogeneity in other-regarding preferences among salespeople in a large Austrian retail chain. Our results show that the majority of agents take the welfare of others into account but a significant fraction reveals self-regarding behavior....

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Shop Around and You Pay More

Yan, Ji - 2014

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Financial Development and Inequality in the Global Economy

von Ehrlich, Maximilian - 2016

We build a heterogeneous-firms model with firm-specific wages and credit frictions to study the role of financial development for inequality in the global economy. If there are many small firms, better access to external funds reduces wage inequality and unemployment. In contrast, if there are...

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Inequality, Structure of Production and International Trade – The Role of Credit Market Imperfection

Beladi, Hamid - 2017

Credit rationing in the presence of asset inequality affects production and trade pattern in this paper, but not in the conventional way. A Ricardian general equilibrium framework with heterogeneous levels of asset ownership is developed to show that more equal asset distribution may contract...

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