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The risk of policy tipping and stranded carbon assets

Ploeg, Frederick van der; Rezai, Armon - 2019 - Revised July 2019

If global warming is to stay below 2°C, there are four risks of assets stranding. First, substantial fossil fuel reserves will be stranded at the end of the fossil era. Second, this will be true for exploration capital too. Third, unanticipated changes in present or expected future climate...

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Das Problem weltmarktlicher Arzneimittelversorgung : ein Vergleich alternativer Argumentationsstrategien für eine globale Ethik

Pies, Ingo; Hielscher, Stefan - 2007

Ansatz einer ökonomischen Theorie der Moral. Untersucht wird, wie die beiden Ansätze dem moralischen Anliegen vorarbeiten …, die internationale Versorgung mit Arzneimitteln zu verbessern, d.h. wie sie als Theorie dem praktischen Missstand … einer ökonomischen Theorie der Moral primär darin, dass in armen Ländern vielfach die institutionellen Voraussetzungen …

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The international provision of pharmaceuticals: a comparison of two alternative theoretical strategies for global ethics

Pies, Ingo; Hielscher, Stefan - 2007

Millions of people in the developing world lack access to curative drugs. Thomas Pogge identifies the cause for this … countries hinder the poor from expressing their needs as actual demand on the market. From a theory point of view, the major …

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Do foreign aid transfers distort incentives and hurt growth? : theory and evidence from 75 aid-recipient countries

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Kalyvitēs, Sarantēs; … - 2004

In this paper, foreign aid transfers can distort individual incentives, and hence hurt growth, by encouraging rent-seeking as opposed to productive activities. We construct a model of a small growing open economy that distinguishes two effects from foreign transfers: (i) a direct positive...

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