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Foreign influence and domestic policy: a survey
Aidt, Toke; Albornoz, Facundo; Hauk, Esther - 2019
In an interconnected world, economic and political interests inevitably reach beyond national borders. Since policy choices generate external economic and political costs, foreign state and non-state actors have an interest in inflencing policy actions in other sovereign countries to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018258
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Self-Enforcing Agreements under Unequal Nationally Determined Contributions
Silva, Emilson C.D. - 2016
For a large global economy with normal goods, and an unequal world income distribution, we consider the endogenous formation and stability of an international environmental agreement (IEA) under nationally determined contributions (NDCs). Nations share green R&D efforts and enjoy R&D spillovers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431243
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Foreign Influence and Domestic Policy : A Survey
Aidt, Toke Skovsgaard - 2019
In an interconnected world, economic and political interests inevitably reach beyond national borders. Since policy choices generate external economic and political costs, foreign state and non-state actors have an interest in inflencing policy actions in other sovereign countries to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889683
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Mining for Peace
Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul; Vesperoni, Alberto - 2023
The energy transition increases the demand for minerals from ethnically diverse, conflict-prone developing countries. We study whether and where mining is possible in such countries without raising the risk of civil conflict. We proceed in three steps: First, we propose a theoretical model to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262694
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Early-life Circumstances Predict Measures of Trust among Adults: Evidence from Hunger Episodes in Post-War Germany
Hörl, Maximiliane; Kesternich, Iris; Smith, James P.; … - 2016
Can a major shock in childhood permanently shape trust? We consider a hunger episode in Germany after WWII and … regional and temporal variation. We correlate hunger exposure with measures of trust using data from a nationally … significantly lower levels of trust as adults. This finding highlights that early-life experiences can have long-term effects in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555535
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Aid and Growth. New Evidence Using an Excludable Instrument
Dreher, Axel; Langlotz, Sarah - 2015
We use an excludable instrument to test the effect of foreign aid on economic growth in a sample of 96 recipient countries over the 1974-2009 period. We interact donor government fractionalization with a recipient country’s probability of receiving aid. The results show that fractionalization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388194
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Compliance Technology and Self-Enforcing Agreements
Harstad, Bård; Lancia, Francesco; Russo, Alessia - 2015
We analyze a repeated game in which countries are polluting as well as investing in technologies. While folk theorems point out that the first best can be sustained as a subgame-perfect equilibrium when the players are sufficiently patient, we derive the second best equilibrium when they are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388236
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Technology Transfers for Climate Change
Elsayyad, May; Morath, Florian - 2013
This paper considers investments in cost-reducing technology in the context of contributions to climate protection. Contributions to mitigating climate change are analyzed in a two-period model where later contributions can be based on better information, but delaying the contribution to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328780
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The Political Economy of International Organizations
Dreher, Axel; Lang, Valentin F. - 2016
We review the literature on the political economy of international organizations (IOs). Considering IOs as products of the preferences of various actors rather than monolithic entities we focus on national politicians, international bureaucrats, interest groups, and voters. By looking into the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555519
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Regulatory Chill and the Effect of Investor State Dispute Settlements
Janeba, Eckhard - 2016
Legal conflicts between multinational firms and host governments are often decided by international arbitration panels - as opposed to courts in the host country - due to provisions in international investment agreements known as Investor State Dispute Settlements (ISDS). Critics fear that ISDS...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584887