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Be Cautious with the Precautionary Principle : Evidence from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident

Neidell, Matthew - 2019

This paper provides a large scale, empirical evaluation of unintended effects from invoking the precautionary principle after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident. After the accident, all nuclear power stations ceased operation and nuclear power was replaced by fossil fuels, causing an...

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Reciprocal Climate Negotiators

Nyborg, Karine - 2015

International climate negotiations have been troubled by mutual mistrust. At the same time, a hope seems to prevail that once enough countries moved forward, others would follow suit. If the abatement game faced by climate negotiators is a Prisoners' Dilemma, and countries are narrowly...

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Do Natural Disasters Affect Human Capital? An Assessment Based on Existing Empirical Evidence

Baez, Javier - 2011

households once they are hit by a disaster. The paper also lays out existing knowledge gaps, particularly in regard to the need …

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Perceptions, Expectations, and Entrepreneurship : The Role of Extreme Events

Brück, Tilman - 2010

We provide, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extreme events – natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – on the perceptions of entrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues – such as fear of failure in starting a business...

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The Economic Impacts of Direct Natural Disaster Exposure

Johar, Meliyanni - 2020

This paper studies how having your home damaged or destroyed by a natural disaster impacts on economic and financial …

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Should Easier Access to International Credit Replace Foreign Aid?

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2011

We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country. We also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth via non-linear relationships. First of all, we develop a two-country, two-period trade-theoretic model to develop testable...

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The Costs of Favoritism : Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?

Dreher, Axel - 2010

World Bank projects and generally find that projects that are potentially politically motivated – such as those granted to … governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … Council members with higher short-term debt, however, a negative quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World …

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Health Aid, Governance and Infant Mortality

Doucouliagos, Hristos - 2019

We investigate the impact of health aid on infant mortality conditional on the quality of governance in 96 recipient countries. Our analysis applies the long difference estimator and instrumental variable estimation, with aid instrumented by donor government fractionalization interacted with the...

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Status Inequality, Moral Disengagement and Violence

Falk, Armin - 2017

This paper studies the causal effect of status differences on moral disengagement and violence. To measure violent behavior, in the experiment, a subject can inflict a painful electric shock on another subject in return for money. We exogenously vary relative status in the realm of sexual...

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The Link between the Intrinsic Motivation to Comply and Compliance Behavior : A Critical Appraisal of Existing Evidence

Halla, Martin - 2010

Recent economic literature emphasizes the importance of moral considerations to explain compliance behavior with respect to underground activities such as tax evasion. A considerable amount of research aims to identify factors that affect the intrinsic motivation to comply. However, the causal...

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