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In this paper we discuss the global negotiations now underway and aimed at achieving new climate change mitigation and … ongoing global negotiations on climate change and further rounds will almost certainly follow. We highlight both the vast … the negotiations is between OECD countries on the one hand, and lower wage, large population, rapidly growing countries …
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low wage rapidly growing countries in the BRIC group (Brazil, Russia, India, China) and the groups of countries as a sub …
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This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract …, implemented at the end of a three-year cycle in which contracts are generally revised, was (a) the joint outcome of negotiations …
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Productivity varies greatly among farmers and the source of that variation is not fully understood. Using a unique …
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We use a proprietary data set on the floor-level operations at the Bhilai Rail and Structural Mill (RSM) in India to …-enhancing investments in emerging economies. -- Total Factor Productivity (TFP) ; plant level data ; competitiveness and trade …
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According to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, global collective action is needed to stabilize "greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous [our emphasis] anthropogenic interference with the climate system." The Framework Convention thus...
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Previous research shows that collective action to avoid a catastrophic threshold, such as a climate "tipping point", is unaffected by uncertainty about the impact of crossing the threshold but that collective action collapses if the location of the threshold is uncertain. Theory suggests that...
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products company to study the influence of small gifts on the outcome of business negotiations. We find that small gifts matter … of their negotiations. However, we also find that small gifts tend to be counterproductive when purchasing and sales …
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Two players with preferences distorted by the focusing effect (Koszegi and Szeidl, 2013) negotiate an agreement over several issues and one transfer. We show that, as long as their preferences are differentially distorted, an issue will be inefficiently left out of the agreement or inefficiently...
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