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The market for "harmful component-free" products under pressure from the NGOs

Brécard, Dorothée; Chiroleu-Assouline, Mireille - 2020

palm oil) that are harmful to the environment (such as rainforests) or replace such components with NGO …-certified sustainable components. Under which conditions does NGO pressure lead firms to eliminate basic components from their products or … product differentiation. It shows that, for an NGO that collects certification fees to accrue its budget and finance its …

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NGO's and donors' funding : evidence from Uganda

Bougheas, Spiros P.; Isopi, Alessia; Owens, Trudy - 2022

efficiency selectivity criteria but focus on the geographic location of the NGO and the manager's network. International donors …, instead, follow efficiency proxies of both the NGO and the manager, including the manager's level of education, the …

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Brothers in arms : an experiment on the alliance puzzle

Ke, Changxia; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2010

Our experimental analysis of alliances in conflicts leads to three main findings. First, even in the absence of repeated interaction, direct contact or communication, free-riding among alliance members is far less pronounced than what would be expected from non-cooperative theory. Second, this...

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Potentially harmful international cooperation on global public good provision

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Cornes, Richard; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - 2012

Recent international climate negotiations suggest that complete agreements are unlikely to materialize. Instead, partial cooperation between like-minded countries appears a more likely outcome. In this paper we analyze the effects of such partial cooperation between like-minded countries. In...

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Issue linkage and issue tie-in in multilateral negotiations

Conconi, Paola; Perroni, Carlo - 2001

We describe a model of international, multidimensional policy coordination where countries can enter into selective and separate agreements with different partners along different policy dimensions. The model is used to examine the implications of negotiation tie-in - the requirement that...

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The political economy of policy centralization : direct versus representative democracy

Redoano, Michela; Scharf, Kimberley Ann - 2001

This paper examines policy centralization outcomes in a two-jurisdiction, political economy model of public good provision choices with heterogeneous policy preferences and interjurisdictional policy spillovers, under alternative democratic choice procedures, namely, direct democracy and...

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Town twinning and German city growth

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Oumer, Abdella - 2014

After World War II, town twinning became popular, notably in Germany. This was mainly a reaction to the war experience, and it was aimed at creating renewed international understanding and co-operation between German cities and cities in other countries. The contacts created by town twinning...

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Would global patent protection be too weak without international coordination?

Lai, Edwin L.-C.; Yan, Isabel K. M. - 2011

This paper analyzes the setting of national patent policies in the global economy. In the standard model with free trade and social-welfare-maximizing governments à la Grossman and Lai (2004), cross-border positive policy externalities induce individual countries to select patent strengths that...

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Prospects of regional cooperation in trade, investment and finance in Asia : an empirical analysis on BIMSTEC countries and Japan

Bhattacharya, Swapan K. (contributor); … - 2006

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Technological sovereignty as ability, not autarky

March, Christoph; Schieferdecker, Ina - 2021

Aspirations towards technological sovereignty increasingly pervade the political debate. Yet, an ambiguous definition leaves the exact goal of those aspirations and the policies to fulfill them unclear. This leaves room for partly particularly negative interpretations, such as equating the...

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