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Climate change is the exemplary global public good, because each country’s emissions of greenhouse gases contribute cumulatively to the increase of the overall concentration, and each country’s abatements entail higher cost than benefit, unless effective concerted collective actions take...
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The more the various dimensions of climate change are just, the more an international agreement is in principle attainable. That is the reason why justice plays a major role in favouring collective action against global warming. In this article I spell out the dominant notions of justice and the...
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We explore the generality of Konrad and Lommerud (1995)'s Rotten Spouse Theorem. While the result holds for an arbitrary number of agents, it fails to hold for general technologies. We discuss some of the implications for CO2-emissions models.
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Until about 13,000 years ago all humans obtained their food through hunting and gathering, but thereafter people in some parts of the world began a transition to agriculture. Recent data strongly implicate climate change as the driving force behind the agricultural transition in southwest Asia....
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endogenous risk (concerns about policy credibility) suggests that permits should be auctioned several years in advance of use … targets. In addition, policy should be made as complete and as transparent as possible, and its key elements should be …
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Policy enabling tropical forests to approach their potential contribution to global-climate-change mitigation requires … land use and its consequences for C storage for policy scenarios. These predictions can be used to create baselines, reward …
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paper considers the regional impacts of such a policy in New Zealand by allocating the emission charge across space …
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Policy towards speculative bubbles is examined in a model of a finite horizon 'greater fool' bubble, with rational … dynamics and welfare economics to analyze bubble policies. Government policy is modeled as deflating overpriced assets by … revealing information about whether or not the asset is overpriced. It is shown that such a policy tends to improve welfare if …
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Policy plays a significant role in nation building. This paper attempts to highlight the role of policy issues in … policies. If we take a snapshot of our history of the last 60 years since independence, we find that many policy initiatives … may lead to social and economic fragmentation of the country. We also bring out few recent policy initiatives of the …
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agenda for reform is clear. Therefore, the thrust of this project is to formulate a model-based viable health policy reforms …
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