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The UNESCO World Heritage List contains the 900 most treasured sites of humanity's culture and landscapes. The World … excessive tourism, and in times of war or by terrorists. -- global public good ; World Heritage ; cultural certificates …
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This paper examines leadership in relation to supplying a global public good. Both the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement encourage the developed countries to take a lead in reducing emissions. Does a country benefit from taking a lead? When does leadership improve global welfare? The answer...
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Recent international climate negotiations suggest that complete agreements are unlikely to materialize. Instead … by analyzing incomplete matching agreements in the context of international climate protection. We analyse their effect …
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Over the past 70 years, the number of international environmental agreements (IEAs) has increased substantially … network properties of international environmental cooperation based on 546 IEAs signed between 1948 and 2015. We identify four … France and Germany have been the most strategic players to broker environmental cooperation. Fourth, international …
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efforts or international transfers cannot be expected to be very successful. In this paper we instead show that pioneering …
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This research establishes that the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrastate conflicts in the modern era reflect the long shadow of prehistory. Exploiting variations across national populations, it demonstrates that genetic diversity, as determined predominantly during the...
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This paper studies the formation of self-enforcing global environmental agreements in a world economy with … international trade and two groups of countries that differ with respect to fuel demand and environmental damage. It investigates …
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Climate change not only impacts production and market consumption, but also the relative scarcity of non-market goods, such as environmental amenities. We study fundamental drivers of the resulting relative price changes, their potential magnitude, and their implications for climate policy in...
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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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According to the Globalization Paradox, globalization limits the freedom of choice for national governments. Capital mobility in particular induces tax competition, thus putting downward pressure on capital taxes. However, while capital mobility introduces the inefficiency of tax competition, it...
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