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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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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 …
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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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The Sustainability of Empire in Global Perspective : The Role of International Trade Patterns
Bonfatti, Roberto - 2012
European empires had two key economic aspects: the extraction of colonial wealth by colonizers, and the relevance of trade for the colonial economies. I build a simple model of decolonization that puts these two elements at centre stage. By controlling policy in the colony, the mother country...
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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 Environmental Kuznets Curve and Sustainability : A Panel Data Analysis
Farhani, Sahbi - 2014
In recent years, sustainability has represented one of the most important policy goals explored in the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. But related hypotheses, performance measures and results continue to present a challenge. The present paper contributes to this ongoing literature...
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Public Goods Provision with Rent-Extracting Administrators
Cagala, Tobias - 2018
This paper studies public goods provision in an experiment in which contributors repeatedly interact with rent-extracting administrators. Our main result is that the presence of an administrator reduces contributions but only because rent extraction lowers the MPCR. Analysing the dynamic...
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One-Sided Private Provision of Public Goods with Implicit Lindahl Pricing
Meier, Volker - 2011
We consider a sequential game in which one player produces a public good and the other player can influence this decision by making an unconditional transfer. An efficient allocation requires the Lindahl property: the sum of the two (implicit) individual prices has to be equal to the resource...
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