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The Intricacy of Adapting to Climate Change : Flood Protection as a Local Public Goods Game
Bondarev, Anton A. - 2017
We study adaptation to climate change in a federalist setting. To protect themselves against an increase in flood risk, regional governments choose among adaptation measures that vary with respect to their costs, the level of protection they offer, and the presence and nature of spillovers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960103
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Financing Bologna, the Internationally Mobile Students in European Higher Education
Gérard, Marcel - CESifo - 2008
Despite the importance of the Bologna process for the mobility of students, and the further mobility of graduates, as well as for peace, growth and welfare in that area, nothing has been decided so far for the financing of internationally mobile students, so that the burden of that financing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405967
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The Role of Economic Policy in Climate Change Adaptation
Konrad, Kai A.; Thum, Marcel - CESifo - 2012
This paper assesses the role of the public sector in adaptation to climate change. We first offer a definition and categorisation of climate change adaptation. We then consider the primary economic principles that can guide the assignment of adaptation tasks to either the private or the public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010583637
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Centralized Fiscal Spending by Supranational Unions
Simon, Jenny; Valasek, Justin Mattias - CESifo - 2013
through alternative decision-making institutions: Both majority rule and exogenous tax rules can improve efficiency. … decreasing efficiency, which becomes more severe as the centralized budget increases. We also analyze partial ex-ante commitment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877969
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Incentive Schemes for Local Government: Theory and Evidence from Comprehensive Performance Assessment in England
Lockwood, Benjamin; Porcelli, Francesco - CESifo - 2011
, but have an ambiguous effect on the efficiency of service provision. We test these predictions using a difference in … not subject to the same CPA regime. To do this, we construct original indices of service quality and efficiency, using … efficiency indices. There is evidence of heterogeneous effects of CPA on efficiency, with some evidence that CPA impacted more on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009150641
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Cutting Costs of Catching Carbon - Intertemporal Effects Under Imperfect Climate Policy
Hoel, Michael - 2015
be more desirable than com-parable cost reductions related to renewable energy. The finding rests on the incentives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038364
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Strategic Implications of Counter-Geoengineering : Clash or Cooperation?
Heyen, Daniel - 2018
Solar geoengineering has received increasing attention as an option to temporarily stabilize global temperatures. A key concern surrounding these technologies is that heterogeneous preferences over the optimal amount of cooling combined with low deployment costs may allow the country with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910620
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Members, Joiners, Free-Riders, Supporters
Ansink, Erik - 2016
We augment the standard cartel formation game from non-cooperative coalition theory, often applied in the context of international environmental agreements on climate change, with the possibility that singletons support coalition formation without becoming coalition members themselves. Rather,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994697
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Climate Effects of Carbon Taxes, Taking into Account Possible Other Future Climate Measures
Habermacher, Florian - 2013
The increase of fuel extraction costs as well as of temperature will make it likely that in the medium-term future technological or political measures against global warming may be implemented. In assessments of a current climate policy the possibility of medium-term future developments like...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013093629
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Existence and Warr Neutrality for Matching Equilibria in a Public Good Economy : An Aggregative Game Approach
Buchholz, Wolfgang - 2010
Using the aggregative game approach as developed by Cornes and Hartley (2003, 2007) this paper analyzes the conditions under which matching mechanisms in a public good economy lead to interior matching equilibria in which all agents make strictly positive flat contributions to the public good....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149366