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Frey, Bruno S.; Torgler, Benno - 2008

: extended institutional and governance quality, democracy, voice and accountability, a well functioning system of law and order …

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Get rid of unanimity: The superiority of majority rule with veto power

Bouton, Laurent; Llorente-Saguer, Aniol; Malherbe, … - 2014

A group of agents wants to reform the status quo if and only if this is Pareto improving. Agents have private information and may have common or private objectives, which creates a tension between information aggregation and minority protection. We analyze a simple voting system - majority rule...

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Government repression and the death toll from natural disasters

Costa, Samia - 2012

Natural disasters have been a major cause of human suffering. Countries with higher income, lower inequality, lower corruption, and more democratic regimes have been found to experience less casualties from disasters. Government repression, however, could also play a role in disaster...

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Nice guys finish last: Are people with higher tax morale taxed more heavily?

2012

This paper provides evidence of efficient taxation of groups with heterogeneous levels of tax morale. We set up an optimal income tax model where high tax morale implies a high subjective cost of evading taxes. The model predicts that nice guys finish last: groups with higher tax morale will be...

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After the Paris Agreement – What’s Next? Worldwide Implementation

Lippelt, Jana; Mayer, Lea - In: CESifo Forum 18 (2017) 4, pp. 43-45

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The End of Arbitration as We Know It? Arbitration under Attack

Larson, David Allen - 2011

ensure arbitration’s survival. Arbitration’s viability as a popular and effective dispute resolution process will continue as … every aspect of our lives, guarantees that arbitration will remain the dispute resolution process of choice in many … technology will strengthen arbitration’s status as a convenient and effective dispute resolution process. The article will …

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(Self-) Enforcement of Joint Implementation and Clean Development Mechanism Contracts

Janssen, Josef - 2013

International climate protection investments (Joint Implementation and Clean Development Mechanism projects) are burdened with problems of contract enforcement, which prevent the realisation of efficiency gains associated with these investments. The paper analyses this problem from the...

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The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It

Zittrain, Jonathan - 2012

This book explores the past, present, and future of the Internet. It explains why some crucial, commonplace ingredients of the Net such as the generic, reprogrammable PC are likely soon to be replaced, not just complemented, by a new range of information appliances and corresponding Web 2.0...

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Why Kill Politicians? A Rational Choice Analysis of Political Assassinations

Frey, Bruno S. - 2007

In the course of history a large number of politicians has been assassinated. A rational choice analysis is used to distinguish the expected marginal benefits of killing, and the marginal cost of attacking a politician. The comparative analysis of various equilibria helps us to gain insights...

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Sustainable Development and Market Liberalism's Shotgun Wedding : Emissions Trading Under the Kyoto Protocol

Driesen, David M. - 2014

This article analyzes the international emissions trading regime at the heart of the world's effort to address global warming as a means of exploring broader international governance issues. The trading regime seeks to marry two models of global governance, market liberalism, which embraces...

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