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World heritage list : does it make sense?
Frey, Bruno S.; Steiner, Lasse - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003974639
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Leadership and climate policy
Mideksa, Torben K. - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012509563
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Technological transfers in global climate policy
Buchholz, Wolfgang; Dippl, Lisa; Eichenseer, Michael - 2015 - This version: September 30, 2015
efforts or international transfers cannot be expected to be very successful. In this paper we instead show that pioneering …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346872
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The nature of conflict
Arbath, Cemal Eren; Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309623
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Forging a global environmental agreement through trade sanctions on free riders?
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281297
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Relative prices and climate policy : how the scarcity of non-market goods drives policy evaluation
Drupp, Moritz A.; Hänsel, Martin C. - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154637
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Making world heritage truly global : the culture certificate scheme
Frey, Bruno S.; Pamini, Paolo - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872401
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The globalization paradox revisited
Schwerhoff, Gregor; Edenhofer, Ottmar - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010375314
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Market power and global public goods
Kessing, Sebastian - 2023
A global monopoly supplier country of necessary inputs for the provision of global public goods has an incentive to subsidize these exports. The strategic interdependence in the global public good context reverses the "large country" incentives to manipulate the terms-of-trade. It is optimal for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444185
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Improving global public goods supply through conditional transfers : the international adaptation transfer riddle
Karen, Pittel; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - 2013
. 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’. This paper focuses on a specific type of international transfer that … since the COP in Copenhagen 2009, preparations are on-going to significantly expand international transfers that help …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009702883