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Reforms of environmental policies in the presence of cross-border pollution and two-stage clean-up

Hatzipanayotou, Panos; Lahiri, Sajal; Michael, Michael S. - 2002

of a number of multilateral policy reforms. One of our findings is that the magnitude of the beneficial e.ect of a reform … depends on the scope of the reform, and if it is restricted to a subset of policy instruments, then the efficacy of … environmental policy reform can be greatly undermined. …

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Can cross-border pollution reduce pollution?

Hatzipanayotou, Panos; Lahiri, Sajal; Michael, Michael S. - 2000

We develop a North-South model of foreign aid and cross-border pollution resulting from production activities in the recipient country. There is both private and public abatement of pollution, the latter being financed through emissions tax revenue and foreign aid. We characterise a Nash...

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EMU enlargement, policy uncertainty and economic reforms

Hefeker, Carsten (contributor) - 2006

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Agglomeration and aid

Brakman, Steven (contributor); Garretsen, Harry (contributor) - 2006

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Improving the SGP : taxes and delegation rather than fines

Lindbeck, Assar (contributor); Niepelt, Dirk (contributor) - 2005

We analyze motivations for, and possible alternatives to, the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP). With regard to the former, we identify domestic policy failures and various cross-country spillover effects; with regard to the latter, we contrast an economic-theory" perspective on optimal corrective...

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The political economy of two-tier reforms of employment protection in Europe

Ochel, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2008

history of national reform processes. In addition the paper seeks to determine whether two-tier reforms later led to EPL …

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Attitudes towards Euro area reforms : evidence from a randomized survey experiment

Dolls, Mathias; Wehrhöfer, Nils - 2018

We present the first evidence on public attitudes towards two prominent euro area reform proposals (European …, cosmopolitanism, political preferences and income are important predictors of support for the reform proposals. We also show that …

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Explaining constitutional change : the case of judicial independence

Hayo, Bernd; Voigt, Stefan - 2012

This paper studies the factors driving changes in judicial independence (JI) as incorporated in constitutions. Two indicators of constitutionally safeguarded JI are constructed. Variations in these indicators are identified based on changes in the constitutions of as many as 100 countries that...

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Judiciaries in corrupt societies

Priks, Mikael (contributor) - 2007

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Power over prosecutors corrupts politicians : cross country evidence using a new indicator

Aaken, Anne van (contributor); Feld, Lars P. (contributor); … - 2008

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