Procreation, Migration and Tradable Quotas

Markets for Tradable Carbon Dioxide Emission Quotas: Principles and Practice

This chapter reviews a range of issues relating to tradable carbon dioxide (CO2) emission quotas (TEQs). It considers the economic principles on which they are based, compares them with alternative carbon abatement policies, and reviews many aspects of how tradable quotas would be implemented in practice. Section 2.2 sets the scene, explaining why these issues are on the agenda and how they rel...

Public goods and procreation.

Procreation is the ultimate public goods problem. Each new child affects the welfare of many other people, and some (but not all) children produce uncompensated value that future people will enjoy. This essay addresses challenges that arise if we think of procreation and parenting as public goods. These include whether individual choices are likely to lead to a socially desirable outcome, and w...

Assisted Procreation

Reprinted with permission from International Federation of Fertility Societies IFFS (International Federation of Fertility Societies) has among its objectives to contribute to the standardisation of terminology and evaluation of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in the field of reproduction. Assisted Reproduction Techniques (ART) have raised new questions which have been addressed with wide...

Financial Integration: The Role of Tradable and Non-tradable Goods

We examine the effect of financial integration on capital stocks and income per capita, explicitly taking into account the division of output between tradable and non-tradable goods. Capital per worker in a financially integrated country is shown to depend on the size and relative capital-intensity of the tradable sector. Using a panel of 67 countries over the period 1976-1999, we show a weakly...

The Christian and Assisted Procreation