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Prevention and Mitigation of Epidemics : Biodiversity Conservation and Confinement Policies
Augeraud-Véron, Emmanuelle - 2020
This paper presents a first model integrating the relation between biodiversity loss and zoonose pandemic risks in a … preserve a greater quantity of biodiversity, thus decreasing the probability of a pandemic occurring, and second (mitigation … biodiversity conservation is shown to be more relevant for more “forward looking” societies, with a small discount rate and a high …
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Conservation by Lending
Harstad, Bård; Storesletten, Kjetil - 2023
This project analyzes how a principal can motivate an agent to conserve rather than exploit a depletable resource. This dynamic problem is relevant for tropical deforestation as well as for other environmental problems. It is shown that the smaller is the agent's discount factor (e.g., because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346959
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Cognitive Uncertainty in Intertemporal Choice
Enke, Benjamin; Graeber, Thomas - 2021
This paper studies the relevance of cognitive uncertainty – subjective uncertainty over one’s utility-maximizing action – for understanding and predicting intertemporal choice. The main idea is that when people are cognitively noisy, such as when a decision is complex, they implicitly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311701
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The Effects of Land Redistribution : Evidence from the French Revolution
Finley, Theresa; Franck, Raphaël; Johnson, Noel - 2021
This study exploits the confiscation and auctioning off of Church property that occurred during the French Revolution to assess the role played by transaction costs in delaying the reallocation of property rights in the aftermath of fundamental institutional reform. French districts with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315182
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Impacts of Droughts and Floods on Agricultural Productivity in New Zealand as Measured from Space
Blanc, Élodie; Noy, Ilan - 2022
This study estimates the impact of excess precipitation (or the absence of rainfall) on productivity of agricultural land parcels in New Zealand. This type of post-disaster damage assessments aims to allow for quantification of disaster damage when on-the-ground assessment of damage is too...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013296265
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Environmental Policy and Firm Selection in the Open Economy
Kreickemeier, Udo - 2019
In this paper, we analyse the effects of a unilateral change in an emissions tax in a model of international trade with heterogeneous firms. We find a positive effect of tighter environmental policy on average productivity in the reforming country through reallocation of labour towards exporting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866556
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What drives the global land rush?
Arezki, Rabah; Deininger, Klaus; Selod, Harris - 2011
This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed indicators of agro-ecological suitability in areas with low population density as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280643
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Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Performance Pay
Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
The general-equilibrium effects of performance-related teacher pay include long-term incentive and teacher-sorting mechanisms that usually elude experimental studies but are captured in cross-country comparisons. Combining country-level performance-pay measures with rich PISA-2003 international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139418
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Politics-Business Co-evolution Paths : Workers’ Organization and Capitalist Concentration
Belloc, Marianna - 2012
Most pre-crisis explanations of the various corporate governance systems have considered the separation between ownership and control to be an advantage of the Anglo-American economies. They have also attributed the failure of other countries to achieve these efficient arrangements to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116042
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Policy Implications of Models of the Spread of Coronavirus : Perspectives and Opportunities for Economists
Avery, Christopher - 2020
influential in recent policy discussions. It notes potentially important features of the real- world environment that the standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833728