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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 …
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Can Degrowth Overcome the Leakage Problem of Unilateral Climate Policy
Larch, Mario - 2017
Unilateral climate policy suffers from carbon leakage, i.e. the (partial) offset of the initial emission reduction by increases in other countries. Different than most typically discussed climate policies, degrowth not only aims at reducing the fossil fuel use in an economy, but rather at a...
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Anticipated International Environmental Agreements
Acikgoz, Omer - 2016
Consider a situation in which countries anticipate an international environmental agreement (IEA) to be in effect sometime in the future. What is the impact of the future IEA on current emissions after its announcement? We show that the answer to this question is ambiguous. We examine four types...
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Technological Transfers in Global Climate Policy
Buchholz, Wolfgang - 2015
Theoretical analysis and empirical evidence show that leadership behavior in climate policy through increased abatement efforts or international transfers cannot be expected to be very successful. In this paper we instead show that pioneering activities, which are based on green technological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012533
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Internationally Coordinated Emission Permit Policies : An Option for Withdrawers from the Kyoto Protocol?
Bednar-Friedl, Birgit - 2014
policy if the world economy is dynamically efficient. From the perspective of a net foreign debtor country that has withdrawn … international policy coordination unless the world economy becomes dynamically inefficient …
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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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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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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 purpose. Each World Heritage site conserved is acknowledged through the …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142233
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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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