The UNESCO World Heritage List contains the 900 most treasured Sites of humanity's culture and landscapes. The World …

Recent international climate negotiations suggest that complete agreements are unlikely to materialize. Instead … by analyzing incomplete matching agreements in the context of international climate protection. We analyze their effect …

welfare of all countries. Because there are no international institutions capable of enforcing environmental agreements on …

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 …

. 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'. This paper focuses on a specific type of international transfer that … since the COP in Copenhagen 2009, preparations are on-going to significantly expand international transfers that help …

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 …

programs and the benefits of international antitrust cooperation between agencies. When international antitrust prosecution is …

An empirical overview of the UNESCO World Heritage List according to various characteristics is presented. The … officially stated intention of the World Heritage List is to protect global heritage. Our focus is on the imbalance of the … considered “balanced” from different points of view. It turns out that the World Heritage List is unbalanced with respect to a …

estimate the purchasing power parity (PPP) bias in Penn World Table incomes and provide corrected incomes. The bias is … substantial and systematic: the poorer a country, the more its income tends to be overestimated. Consequently, international …