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Scholarly Publishing Certification Course at bepress, October 9-11 6 Jul 2013 | 02:14 am
Bepress is pleased to announce our first Scholarly Publishing Certification Course: A Training Program for Library-Led Publishing Initiatives, held at our offices in Berkeley, California, October 9-11...
The Influence of Economic Growth, Population, and Fossil Fuel Scarcity on Energy Investments 25 Jun 2013 | 05:58 pm
This paper examines the dynamics of energy investments and clean energy Research and Development (R&D) using a scenario-based modeling approach. Starting from the global scenarios proposed in the RoSE...
Endogenous Participation in a Partial Climate Agreement with Open Entry: A Numerical Assessment 25 Jun 2013 | 05:58 pm
Our purpose is to analyse the effectiveness and efficiency of a Partial Climate Agreement with open entry under a non-cooperative Nash-Equilibrium framework. We evaluate a partial agreement policy in ...
Robust Institutions for Sustainable Water Markets: A Survey of the Literature and the Way Forward 25 Jun 2013 | 05:48 pm
This paper discusses a framework for analyzing robust institutions for water markets drawn on the new institutional economics school of thoughts which is based on Williamson, North, Coase and Ostrom t...
Decentralization, Social Capital and Regional Convergence 25 Jun 2013 | 05:37 pm
By studying the interaction between social capital and decentralization, we show that political decentralization can be a source of divergence across heterogeneous regions. In particular, we claim tha...
Lessons from 15 Years of Experience with the Dutch Tax Allowance for Energy Investments for Firms 25 Jun 2013 | 05:34 pm
Since 1997 the Netherlands has a tax allowance scheme introduced to promote investments in energy saving technologies and sustainable energy production. This Energy Investment Tax Allowance (EIA in Du...
Environmental Catastrophes under Time-Inconsistent Preferences 24 Jun 2013 | 08:04 pm
I analyze optimal natural resource use in an intergenerational model with the risk of a catastrophe. Each generation maximizes a weighted sum of discounted utility (positive) and the probability that ...
Asymmetry Reversals and the Business Cycle 24 Jun 2013 | 07:28 pm
The cross-sectional dynamics of the U.S. business cycle is examined through the lens of quantile regression models. Conditioning the quantiles of firm-level growth to different measures of technologic...
Investments in Quality, Collective Reputation and Information Acquisition 24 Jun 2013 | 07:28 pm
In many cases consumers cannot observe firms’ investment in quality or safety, but have only beliefs on the average quality of the industry. In addition, the outcome of the collective investment game ...
The Cost of Segregation in Social Networks 10 Jun 2013 | 06:43 pm
This paper investigates the private provision of public goods in segregated societies. While most research agrees that segregation undermines public provision, the findings are mixed for private provi...
