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Simulating with RICE coalitionally stable burden sharing agreements for the climate change problem

Eyckmans, Johan; Tulkens, Henry - 1999

In this paper we test empirically with the Nordhaus and Yang (1996) RICE model the core property of the transfer scheme advocated by Germain, Toint and Tulkens (1997). This scheme is designed to sustain full cooperation in a voluntary international environmental agreement by making all countries...

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The political economy of EU enlargement : or, why Japan is not a candidate country?

Adam, Antonis; Moutos, Thomas - 2002

In this paper we argue that strong political economy forces explain the rush of the EU to expand eastwards. We use a … model of vertical product differentiation in order to claim that technologically- advanced EU firms (residing in high …

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Tax competition under minimum rates : the case of European diesel excises

Evers, Michiel; Mooij, Ruud A. de; Vollebergh, Herman R. J. - 2004

is robust for alternative specifications. By imposing restrictions on excise levels, EU harmonization of excises in 1987 … and the introduction of a minimum in 1992 exerted a positive impact on the excise level in a number of EU countries. It …

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Turkish delight for some, cold Turkey for others? : the effects of the EU-Turkey Customs Union

Adam, Antonis; Moutos, Thomas - 2005

Following Turkey's application for EU membership in 1987, a Customs Union (CU) between Turkey and the EU, mainly … asymmetric changes in the trade volumes of the incumbent countries of the EU as a result of the EU-Turkey CU. By examining … disaggregated trade data we find that the technologically sophisticated EU countries (e.g., mainly the Northern European countries …

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