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Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations

Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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Technological transfers in global climate policy

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Dippl, Lisa; Eichenseer, Michael - 2015 - This version: September 30, 2015

Theoretical analysis and empirical evidence show that leadership behavior in climate policy through increased abatement efforts or international transfers cannot be expected to be very successful. In this paper we instead show that pioneering activities, which are based on green technological...

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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 order to overcome the underprovision of global public goods various different policy approaches have been proposed. 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’....

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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...

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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...

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The political economy of the international tax transparency agenda in the G20/OECD context

Schuknecht, Ludger; Siegerink, Vincent - 2021

This paper empirically analyses the motives underlying progress in implementing multilateral tax transparency standards. The results point to the protection of domestic special interests as a potential motive behind slower and less rigorous implementation. In particular, jurisdictions with a...

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