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Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias : Is it Risk-Love or Misperceptions?

Snowberg, Erik - 2011

The favorite-longshot bias describes the longstanding empirical regularity that betting odds provide biased estimates of the probability of a horse winning - longshots are overbet, while favorites are underbet. Neoclassical explanations of this phenomenon focus on rational gamblers who overbet...

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The Demands for Environmental Regulation and for Trade in the Presence of Private Mitigation

Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - 2021

We study the nature of individual demands for environmental regulation and for trade openness in the general … respect to the stringency of regulation. Moreover, even though trade has the potential to benefit everyone, the poor may … oppose trade openness because of a concern that laxer environmental regulation will then be imposed in the interest of the …

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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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Agricultural Trade, Biodiversity Effects and Food Price Volatility

Bellora, Cecilia; Bourgeon, Jean-Marc - 2021

Biotic factors such as pests create biodiversity effects that increase production risks and decrease land productivity when agriculture becomes more specialized. We show in a Ricardian two-country trade setup that production specialization is incomplete under free trade because of the decrease...

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Green Havens and Pollution Havens

Poelhekke, Steven; van der Ploeg, Rick - 2021

country significantly attracts FDI. What is important for these pollution haven effects is not only regulation but also …

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Kyoto and Carbon Leakage : An Empirical Analysis of the Carbon Content of Bilateral Trade

Aichele, Rahel; Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2021

Has the Kyoto Protocol induced carbon leakage? We conduct the first empirical ex-post evaluation of the Protocol. We derive a theoretical gravity equation for the CO2 content of trade, which accounts for intermediate inputs, both domestic and imported. The structure of our new panel database of...

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International Energy Technology Transfers for Climate Change Mitigation - What, Who, How, Why, When, Where, How Much ... And the Implications for International Institutional Archit...

Brewer, Thomas L. - 2021

The goal of the paper is to expand and refine the international technology transfer negotiating and analytic agendas and to reframe the issues. The paper presents concepts, indicators, illustrations and data that identify and measure international transfers of energy technologies that can be...

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The Demands for Environmental Regulation and for Trade in the Presence of Private Mitigation

Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - CESifo - 2008

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Green Havens and Pollution Havens

Poelhekke, Steven; Ploeg, Frederick Van der - CESifo - 2012

country significantly attracts FDI. What is important for these pollution haven effects is not only regulation but also …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264743

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