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Global Environmental Agreements and International Trade: Asymmetry of Countries Matters
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2014
climate policy takes the form of carbon emission taxation and fossil fuel and consumption goods are traded on world markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960648
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Trade Tariffs and Self-Enforcing Environmental Agreements
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2013
In the basic model of international environmental agreements (IEAs) (Barrett 1994, Rubio and Ulph 2006) extended by international trade, self-enforcing - or stable - IEAs may comprise up to 60% of all countries (Eichner and Pethig 2013). But these IEAs reduce total emissions only slightly...
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Self-Enforcing International Environmental Agreements and Trade: Taxes Versus Caps
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2014
This paper studies within a multi-country model with international trade the stability of international environmental … regulation are necessary conditions for the existence of the encompassing self-enforcing IEA, and that the latter is attained the … the former there exist no large and effective self-enforcing IEAs, in particular not the encompassing self-enforcing IEA …
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Self-Enforcing Environmental Agreements and International Trade
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2013
traded on world markets. When signatory countries act as Stackelberg leader and emissions are positive, the size of stable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010703426
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Stable Climate Coalitions (Nash) and International Trade
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2012
their stability, in particular, in a general equilibrium framework. First we characterize the performance of coalitions and … liberalization by moving from autarky to free trade. Although the coalition steps up its mitigation effort, world emissions rise …
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Do Stringent Environmental Policies Deter FDI? M&A versus Greenfield
Bialek, Sylwia; Weichenrieder, Alfons - CESifo - 2015
This study examines how environmental stringency affects the location decision of foreigndirect investments. We analyze a firm-level data set on German outbound FDI and innovate onprevious studies by controlling for the mode of entry and applying the mixed-logit analysis. Theresults show that...
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The Strategic Value of Carbon Tariffs
Böhringer, Christoph; Carbone, Jared C.; Rutherford, … - CESifo - 2013
carbon tariffs—tariffs on the carbon embodied in imported goods—might lower the cost of achieving a given reduction in world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877890
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Will Skyscrapers Save the Planet? Building Height Limits and Urban Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Borck, Rainald - CESifo - 2014
This paper studies the effectiveness of building height limits as a policy to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It shows that building height limits lead to urban sprawl and higher emissions from commuting. On the other hand, aggregate housing consumption may decrease which reduces emissions...
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Do Leaders Affect Ethical Conduct?
d'Adda, Giovanna; Darai, Donja; Weber, Roberto A. - CESifo - 2014
We study whether leaders influence the unethical conduct of followers. To avoid selection issues present in natural environments, we use a laboratory experiment in which we form groups and assign leadership roles at random. We study an environment in which groups compete, with dishonest behavior...
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Economic Challenges in the Anthropocene
Musu, Ignazio - CESifo - 2013
The evolution during the Anthropocene is analyzed through the interaction between economic and technological development, characterized by the role of fossil fuels and by the progressive dominance of those with a higher energy and density power. The challenge is how to make the rising demand for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877706