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We define a country's technology as a triple of efficiencies: one for unskilled labour, one for skilled labour, and one for capital. We find a negative cross-country correlation between the efficiency of unskilled labour and the efficiencies of skilled labour and capital. We interpret this...
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This Paper provides a first applied game theory analysis of a technology-based climate protocol by assessing: (i) the … on climate-related technological cooperation; (ii) the environmental effectiveness of a technology-based climate protocol …
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We investigate the long-run consequences of historic, climatic temperatures (1730-2000) for the modern cross-country income distribution. Using a newly constructed dataset of climatic temperatures stretching over three centuries (18th, 19th, and 20th), we estimate a robust and significant...
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Many international treaties come into force only after a minimum number of countries have signed and ratified the treaty. Why do countries agree to introduce a minimum participation constraint among the rules characterizing an international treaty? This question is particularly relevant in the...
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Parties has important implications for both the effectiveness and the efficiency of future climate policies. Among these … lower than in most empirical analyses recently circulated. A third goal is to assess the role of Russia in climate …
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This Paper analyses the relationship between different equity rules and the incentives to sign and ratify a climate … international climate agreement. This Paper shows that this conjecture is only partly supported by the empirical evidence that can … be derived from the recent outcomes of climate negotiations. Even though an equitable sharing of the costs of controlling …
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No international regime on climate change is going to be fully effective in controlling GHG emissions without the … issue linkage, transfers or burden sharing as tools to enhance the incentives to participate in a climate agreement, this … paper aims at exploring whether a different policy approach could lead more countries to adopt effective climate control …
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to climate change. Cold weather shocks at the peak of the slave trade predict lower economic activity today. We support …
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This paper develops a model that integrates the climate and the global economy---an integrated assessment model …, only taxes on oil producers can improve the climate: taxes on oil consumers have no effect at all. The calibrated model … suggests large differences in views on climate policy across regions. …
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and in actual policymaking, is to link negotiations on climate change control with decisions concerning international R … strategy, and on the other hand the incentives for the US to join a coalition which cooperates both on climate change control …
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