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Economic integration and environmental policy coordination

Straume, Odd Rune - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2003

We analyse the effect of international economic integration on environmental policy incentives when product markets are … economic integration — interpreted as a reduction of non-tariff trade costs — will reduce policy distortions in the non … increased integration reduces the need for transnational policy coordination, from an environmentalist perspective. …

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Group Identity and Relation-Specific Investment: An Experimental Investigation

Morita, Hodaka; Servátka, Maroš - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2012

economic study of organizations. We study a previously unex-plored mechanism by which integration between two parties could …. For Task 2, the subjects played a hold-up game with either a member of their own team (representing integra-tion) or a … member of the other team (non-integration). The experimental results support our conjectures. …

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Group Identity and Relation-Specific Investment: An Experimental Investigation

Morita, Hodaka; Servátka, Maroš - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2011

essay by Coase (1937). This paper studies a previously unexplored mechanism through which integration could resolve the hold … subjects play a standard hold-up game with a member of their own team (representing integration) or with a member of the other … team (non-integration). We find that team membership significantly increases the investment rate as well as the share of …

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Autovias y ferrocarriles: un modelo para evaluar efectos intermodales de la politica de infaestructuras

Queralt, Germa Manel Bel - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 1996

The supply of motorways reduces travel time costs by road, affecting thus the demand for road transport. Besides these intramodal effects, there exist intermodal effects too as far as motorways have impact on the demand of the competing modes. In this paper we establish and estimate a model that...

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On The Strategic Effect of International Permits Trading on Local Pollution: The Case of Multiple Pollutants

Antoniou, Fabio; Kyriakopoulou, Efthymia - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2015

We introduce a model of strategic environmental policy where two firms compete à la Cournot in a third market under the presence of multiple pollutants. Two types of pollutants are introduced, a local and a transboundary one. The regulator can only control local pollution as transboundary...

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The determinants of social spending in Spain (1880-1960): Is Lindert right?

Barroso, Sergio Espuelas; Rodriguez, Margarita Vilar - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2008

The main objective of this paper is to analyse the origins of the welfare state in Spain using the theoretical framework designed by Peter Lindert. With this aim, we offer an econometric analysis of the factors that determined the evolution of the Spanish social spending between 1880 and 1960....

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Have Countries with Lax Environmental Regulations a Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries?

Quiroga, Miguel; Sterner, Thomas; Persson, Martin - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

We aim to study whether lax environmental regulations induce comparative advantages, causing the least-regulated countries to specialize in polluting industries. The study is based on Trefler and Zhu’s (2005) definition of the factor content of trade. For the econometrical analysis, we use a...

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Trade and Resources: Welfare effects of the Lake Victoria fisheries boom

Eggert, Håkan; Greaker, Mads; Kidane, Asmerom - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

In this paper we examine the welfare implications of the Tanzanian fisheries boom following from the increase in quantities and prices of the Lake Victoria Nile perch export during 1993-2008. We use the theoretical model by Brander and Taylor (1997) that we try to test empirically. We have a...

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Modelling the Impact of Policies to Reduce Environmental Impacts in the New Zealand Dairy Sector

Strutt, Anna; Rae, Allan N. - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2011

Agriculture remains a major sector of the New Zealand economy, with the vast majority of farm and food production exported. The accelerating intensification of farming in New Zealand over recent decades raises concern over the current sustainability of New Zealand farming, and whether it can...

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Optimal agricultural policy and PSE measurement: an assessment and application to Norway

Blandford, David; Brunstad, Rolf Jens; Gaasland, Ivar; … - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2008

The producer support estimate calculated by the OECD is widely misused as an indicator of distortions created by agricultural policies. In this paper we demonstrate rigorously that a change in the relative (percentage) PSE is not an accurate indicator of the implications of policy reform for...

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