Publications des institutions partenaires
PADRE: politically acceptable debt restructuring in the Eurozone
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 10/10/2014
Documenting legal dissonance: legal pluralism in Papua New Guinea
We examine the case of payback killings and similar retributive sanctions in the context of a transplant regime such as that existing in Papua New Guinea. This is a post-colonial regime with multiple overlaid legal systems, with significant negative interaction existing between the different regimes. We explain how multiple regimes can co-exist in the context of negative...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 30/09/2014
Resistance to the regulation of common resources in rural Tunisia
We examine the effect of the introduction of uniform water-charging for aquifer management and provide evidence using a survey-based choice experiment of agricultural water users in rural Tunisia. Theoretically, we show that the implementation of the proposed second-best regulation would result both in efficiency gains and in distributional effects in favour of small landholders....
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 30/09/2014
Running with the red queen: an integrated assessment of agricultural land expansion and global biodiversity decline
Modern agriculture relies on a small number of highly productive crops and the continued expansion of agricultural land area has led to a significant loss of biodiversity. In this paper we consider the macroeconomic consequences of a continued expansion of modern agriculture from the perspective of agricultural productivity and food production: as the genetic material supporting...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 30/09/2014
A household survey of the cost of illnesses due to air pollution in Beijing, China
This paper examines with a case study of Beijing, China, the health benefits that could be reaped from urban air quality improvements. The study implements a household survey to collect information about the yearly medical expenditures and lost days of work, to estimates the total costs of illness (COI) borne by a typical individual due to airborne diseases. The results of this...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 30/09/2014
Networked FDI: sales and sourcing patterns of Japanese foreign affiliates
This paper applies a novel empirical approach to characterising the horizontalness and verticalness of affiliates based on Yeaple’s complex FDI concept. In its simplest form, horizontalness is measured as affiliates' local sales share while their verticalness is measures as their share of non-local sourcing of intermediates. Japanese affiliates in most sectors and nations are...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 26/09/2014
A surplus of ambition: can Europe rely on large primary surpluses to solve its debt problem?
IMF forecasts and the EU’s Fiscal Compact foresee Europe’s heavily indebted countries running primary budget surpluses of as much as 5 percent of GDP for as long as 10 years in order to maintain debt sustainability and bring their debt/GDP ratios down to the Compact’s 60 percent target. We show that primary surpluses this large and persistent are rare. In an extensive sample of high...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 10/09/2014
The costs of sovereign default
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 10/09/2014
Factory-free Europe?: a two unbundlings perspective on Europe's 20th century manufacturing miracle and 21st century manufacturing malaise
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 10/09/2014
Multilateralising 21st century regionalism
The multilateralisation of regionalism takes different forms when applied to deep versus shallow regional trade agreements (RTAs). Shallow agreements focus on discriminatory tariffs; hence, multilateralisation strives mainly to reduce discrimination. Deep agreements focus on the disciplines necessary to foster international production sharing; key provisions often resembling...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 10/09/2014
Spiders and snakes: offshoring and agglomeration in the global economy
Global production sharing is determined by international cost differences and frictions related to the costs of unbundling stages spatially. The interaction between these forces depends on engineering details of the production process with two extremes being ‘snakes’ and ‘spiders’. Snakes are processes whose sequencing is dictated by engineering; spiders involve the assembly of parts...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 10/09/2014
Air pollution in urban Beijing: the role of government - controlled information
This paper looks at the problem of information control behind the unsustainable levels of air pollution in China. In particular, it focuses on a large urban area, Beijing, and it examines the role of the public, government-controlled information and the adaptation choices of households in response to signals about high pollution. Our analysis is based on a simple theoretical...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 09/09/2014
Original sin: the pain, the mystery, and the road to redemption
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 09/09/2014
Nachhaltigkeit und Risiken bei Immobilieninvestitionen : Konzepte und Entscheidungsgrundlagen für die Praxis
Viele Entscheidungen im Zusammenhang mit Immobilien sind im Kern Investitionsentscheidungen. Wie bei jeder Kapitalanlage sind für dabei Rendite und Risiko als Entscheidungskriterien einzubeziehen. Zur Beurteilung der Rentabilität stehen heute eine Vielzahl von Methoden und Verfahren zur Verfügung. Zur Beurteilung der mit Immobilieninvestitionen verbundenen Risiken fehlen jedoch...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/09/2014
Ancillary benefits of GHG abatement policies in developing countries: a literature survey
In this subtask we survey the literature that estimates the ancillary benefits of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement in developing countries, and the extent to which its findings can be transferred across countries. Specifically, we focus upon the health benefits from emission reduction in developing nations. In order to evaluate the spillovers and indirect benefits that a country could...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 15/08/2014
Global population growth, technology, and Malthusian constraints: a quantitative growth theoretic perspective
We study the interactions between global population, technological progress, per capita income, the demand for food, and agricultural land expansion over the period 1960 to 2100.We formulate a two-sector Schumpeterian growth model with a Barro-Becker representation of endogenous fertility. A manufacturing sector provides a consumption good and an agricultural sector provides food to...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 15/08/2014
Tax competition with heterogeneous firms
This paper studies tax competition in an economic geography model that allows for agglomeration economies with trade costs and heterogeneous firms. We find that the Nash equilibrium involves the large country charging a higher tax than the small nation. Lower trade costs lead to an intensification of competition, a drop in Nash tax rates, and a narrowing of the gap. Since large,...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 02/07/2014
Taxes and international risk sharing
We examine the extent to which differences in international tax rates may account for the small correlations of per capita consumption fluctuations across countries. Theory implies a close relationship between relative consumption growth, and consumption and capital income tax rate differentials. We find strong empirical evidence for this relationship. Idiosyncratic output...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 01/07/2014
Embracing ambiguity – lessons from the study of corporate social responsibility throughout the rise and decline of the modern welfare state
In the work of Karl Polanyi, the negative effects of a self-regulating market economy are described as being limited by societal forces such as the policies of the welfare state. With the decline of the modern welfare state since the late 1970s, social activities of business firms are increasingly regarded as an important complement to or even as a substitute for welfare state...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/07/2014
Financial support from the family network and illegal immigration
Barriers to immigration of low-skilled workers from developing countries into the advanced countries prevent many potential migrants from leaving their countries of origin. With very low home-country wages in relation to the cost of undocumented migration, the opportunity to migrate often hinges on becoming indebted to a human smuggling organization or family and friends. This paper...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 17/06/2014
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