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Using the international investment regime as its point of departure, the paper introduces notions of bounded rationality to the study of economic diplomacy. Through a multi-method approach, it shows that developing countries often ignored the risks of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) until...
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Negotiations between a country in default and its international creditors are modeled as a dynamic game in an environment of weak contractual enforcement. The country cannot borrow internation- ally until it settles with all creditors. Delay arises in equilibrium as creditors engage in strategic...
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This paper summarises results from the inaugural China Carbon Pricing Survey. The survey elicited expectations about … the future of China's carbon price from China-based experts on carbon pricing and carbon markets during July to September … 2013. The results indicate confidence that all seven of China's pilot schemes will be under way by 2015, with prices rising …
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China needs to reduce its carbon emissions if global climate change mitigation is to succeed. Conventional economic … productivity and provide co-benefits that accord with multiple national policy objectives. We track China's progress in reducing … the emissions intensity of the economy, and construct a macro scenario with China's carbon emissions peaking in the 2020s …
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The Chinese leadership in November 2013 determined to embark upon a new wave of comprehensive reforms in China. This is … clearly reflected by the key decision of the Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of Communist Party of China to assign … in China, provides some analysis of these energy price reforms, and suggests few areas of reforms could take place in …
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China has gradually recognized that the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the …
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This paper examines the effectiveness of China's indigenous R&D investment and technological innovation to curb its … that: 1) While China's indigenous R&D efforts play a significant role to curb carbon emissions, sole dependence on R&D may … be far from sufficient to achieve China's pledged Copenhagen climate target with complementary policies being required to …
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The rise in China's sex ratio at birth during the last two decades has had a wide range of economic and social …
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China is currently the world's largest single source of fossil fuel related CO2 emissions. In response to pressure from … of China's recent commitments to reduce emissions intensity, and highlight the complexities involved in modelling …, we show that China's emissions intensity targets could be achieved with a range of low and high growth emissions level …
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Opinion over the global implications of China's rise is divided between critics, who see it as having developed at the … of trade and reductions to the cost of financing that stem from China's supply of light manufactures, its demand for … linkages via both trade and investment and so helps clarify the international effects of both China's expansion, its high …
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