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      <title>Análisis de la relación entre: Calidad institucional, recursos naturales y crecimiento económico</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/72790</link>
      <description>Title: Análisis de la relación entre: Calidad institucional, recursos naturales y crecimiento económico
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Díaz Valdivia, Carlos Andrés</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Carbon Leakage Revisited: Unilateral Climate Policy with Directed Technical Change</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/74310</link>
      <description>Title: Carbon Leakage Revisited: Unilateral Climate Policy with Directed Technical Change
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Di Maria, Corrado; van der Werf, Edwin
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: A common critique to the Kyoto Protocol is that the reduction in emissions of CO2 by countries who comply with it will be (partly) offset by the increase in emissions on the part of other countries (carbon leakage). This paper analyzes the effect of technical change on carbon leakage in a two-country model where only one of the countries enforces an exogenous cap on emissions. Climate policy induces changes in relative prices, which cause carbon leakage through a terms-of-trade effect. However, these changes in relative prices in addition affect the incentives to innovate in different sectors. We allow entrepreneurs to choose the sector for which they innovate (directed technical change). This leads to a counterbalancing induced-technology effect, which always reduces carbon leakage. We therefore conclude that the leakage rates reported in the literature so far may be too high, as these estimates neglect the effect of relative price changes on the incentives to innovate.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2005 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Participatory Approach in Decision Making Processes for Water Resources Management in the Mediterranean Basin</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/74309</link>
      <description>Title: Participatory Approach in Decision Making Processes for Water Resources Management in the Mediterranean Basin
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Giupponi, Carlo; Mysiak, Jaroslav; Crimi, Jacopo
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: This paper deals with the comparative analysis of different policy options for water resources management in three south-eastern Mediterranean countries. The applied methodology follows a participatory approach throughout its implementation and is supported by the use of three different software packages dealing with water allocation budget, water quality simulation, and Multi Criteria Analysis, respectively. The paper briefly describes the general objectives of the SMART project and then presents the three local case studies, the valuation objectives and the applied methodology - developed as a general replicable framework suitable for implementation in other decision-making processes. All the steps needed for a correct implementation are therefore described. Following the conceptualisation of the problem, the choice of the appropriate indicators as well as the calculation of their weighting and value functions are detailed. The paper concludes with the results of the Multi Criteria and the related Sensitivity Analyses performed, showing how the different policy responses under consideration can be assessed and furthermore compared through case studies thanks to their relative performances. The adopted methodology was found to be an effective operational approach for bridging scientific modelling and policy making by integrating the model outputs in a conceptual framework that can be understood and utilised by non experts, thus showing concrete potential for participatory decision making.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2005 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Trip-Level Analysis of Efficiency Changes in Oregons Deepwater Trawl Fishery</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/74308</link>
      <description>Title: Trip-Level Analysis of Efficiency Changes in Oregons Deepwater Trawl Fishery
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Tomberlin, David; Holloway, Garth
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: In 2003, an industry-financed, government-administered buyback of trawl fishing permits and vessels took place on the US West Coast, resulting in the retirement of about one-third of the limited-entry trawl fleet. The lack of cost data in this fishery precludes an analysis of how the buyback has affected profitability, but changes in technical efficiency can provide some insight into the programs effects. This paper, the first of a planned series of analyses of the buybacks effect on technical efficiency in the trawl fleet, applies stochastic frontier analysis to assess whether technical efficiency changed perceptibly after 2003. We adopt a hierarchical modeling approach estimated with Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods, and present results from both Cobb-Douglas and translog specifications. The analysis is limited to 13 boats active in Oregons deepwater DTS fishery, which targets dover sole, thornyheads, and sablefish. The results suggest that the buyback has had little impact on trip-level technical efficiency in the study fishery. However, departures from the frontier are markedly bi-modal, indicating that a mixed-density approach to estimation may be more appropriate.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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