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Unilateral Measures and Emissions Mitigation
Chatterji, Shurojit - 2009
We discuss global climate mitigation that builds on existing unilateral measures to cut emissions. We document and discuss the rationale for such unilateral measures argue that such measures have the potential to generate positive spillover effects both within and across countries. In a simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463208
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Contingent Trade Agreements
Harstad, Bård - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
There are often conflicts between proponents of trade and environmental activists. This paper shows, however, how trade agreements can be designed so as to motivate environmental conservation. I first analyze a standard trade model, where resource exploitation (e.g., deforestation) is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544671
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Fair Trade Agreements
Passarelli, Francesco; Staiger, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The legitimacy of the world trading system is under growing attack, as challenges to its conformity with norms of … fairness and social justice are increasingly voiced by citizens and their governments around the world. Taking a novel "bottom …-related fairness concerns of their citizens. More generally, our findings point to a detailed understanding of real-world perceptions …
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Carbon Motivated Regional Trade Arrangements : Analytics and Simulations
Dong, Yan - 2009
This paper presents both analytics and numerical simulation results relevant to proposals for carbon motivated regional trade agreements summarized in Dong & Whalley(2008). Unlike traditional regional trade agreements, by lowing tariffs on participant's low carbon emission goods and setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463767
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International Trade and the Negotiability of Global Climate Change Agreements
Cai, Yuezhou - 2009
Country incentives to participate in cooperative arrangements which either fully or partially internalize climate change externalities from carbon emissions involve critical asymmetries. Small countries trade off own country costs of carbon mitigation actions against their own benefits from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463936
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International Spillovers and Water Quality in Rivers : Do Countries Free Ride?
Sigman, Hilary - 2001
Transboundary spillovers may degrade environmental quality if countries free ride. This paper examines the extent of such degradation in water quality in international rivers. Using data from river monitoring stations in the UN's Global Emissions Monitoring System (GEMS), it compares pollution...
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Waste of Effort? International Environmental Agreements
Kellenberg, Derek - 2013
Many of the world's environmental problems cross international borders, and to address those problems approximately 1 …
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Addressing Global Environmental Externalities : Transaction Costs Considerations
Libecap, Gary D. - 2013
Is there a way to understand why some global environmental externalities are addressed effectively whereas others are not? The transaction costs of defining the property rights to mitigation benefits and costs is a useful framework for such analysis. This approach views international cooperation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459162
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US Sanctions Reinforce the Dollar's Dominance
Dooley, Michael P.; Folkerts-Landau, David F. I.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
has been enhanced by the demonstration that the United States is willing and able to sanction misbehavior. Geopolitically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191038
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Risks and Prices : The Role of User Sanctions in Marijuana Markets
Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo - 2007
User sanctions influence the legal risk for participants in illegal drug markets. A change in user sanctions may change retail drug prices, depending on how it changes the legal risk to users, how it changes the legal risk to dealers, and the slope of the supply curve. Using a novel dataset with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465236