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Improving Global Public Goods Supply through Conditional Transfers - The International Adaptation Transfer Riddle
Pittel, Karen - 2013
In order to overcome the underprovision of global public goods various different policy approaches have been proposed. In the climate policy arena, international transfers are frequently seen as an effective means to raise the provision of the global public good ‘climate change mitigation'....
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Think Global, Act Local! A Mechanism for Global Commons and Mobile Firms
Ahlvik, Lassi - 2019
It is tricky to design local regulations on global externalities, especially so if firms are mobile. We show that when … costs and outside options are firms’ private information, the threat of firm relocation leads to local regulations that are … to firms that can efficiently limit the externality. The optimal mechanism supplements this strict local regulation with …
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Coups, Regime Transition, and the Dynamics of Press Freedom
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2018
This paper explores the dynamics of press freedom around events that threaten or oust the incumbent regime of a country. While democracies on average grant the press more freedom, our theoretical starting point is that democracies and autocracies may have similar incentives to protect the power...
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Sustainable Climate Treaties
Gersbach, Hans - 2017
We examine long-run treaties for mitigating climate change. Countries pay an initial fee into a global fund that is invested in long-run assets. In each period, part of the fund is distributed among the participating countries in relation to the emission reductions they have achieved in this...
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The Geography of Linguistic Diversity and the Provision of Public Goods
Desmet, Klaus - 2017
This paper theoretically analyzes and empirically investigates the importance of local interaction between individuals of different linguistic groups for the provision of public goods at the national level. Depending on whether local interaction mitigates or reinforces antagonism towards other...
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Forging a Global Environmental Agreement Through Trade Sanctions on Free Riders?
Eichner, Thomas - 2015
This paper studies the formation of self-enforcing global environmental agreements in a world economy with international trade and two groups of countries that differ with respect to fuel demand and environmental damage. It investigates whether the signatories' threat to embargo (potential) free...
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Information Transmission and Ownership Consolidation in Aid Programs
Dreher, Axel - 2013
This paper explores the role of information transmission in explaining donors' choice between project aid and budget support. Budget support increases the involvement of recipient governments in the decision-making process and can thus be an example of a “delegation-scheme.” Conversely,...
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Information Transmission within Federal Fiscal Architectures : Theory and Evidence
Dreher, Axel - 2013
This paper explores the role of information transmission and misaligned interests across levels of government in explaining variation in the degree of decentralization across countries. Within a two-sided incomplete information principal-agent framework, it analyzes two alternative...
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Making World Heritage Truly Global : The Culture Certificate Scheme
Frey, Bruno S. - 2014
Culture has attributes of a global public good that needs to be preserved for mankind as a whole. World Culture Certificates are proposed to efficiently preserve World Heritage. The community of nations has to agree on the Global Heritage List and how much each nation is to contribute to that...
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World Heritage List : Does it Make Sense?
Frey, Bruno S. - 2010
The UNESCO World Heritage List contains the 900 most treasured Sites of humanity's culture and landscapes. The World Heritage List is beneficial where heritage sites are undetected, disregarded by national decision-makers, not commercially exploitable, and where national financial resources,...
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