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Minimum participation rules in international environmental agreements : empirical evidence from a survey among delegates in international climate negotiations

Kesternich, Martin - 2015

Recent contributions to the theoretical and experimental literature suggest that minimum participation rules (MPRs) are able to reduce free-riding incentives and may facilitate cooperation (or at least coordination) at the extensive margin of international environmental agreements. Based on a...

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The political economy of negotiating international carbon markets

Arvaniti, Maria; Habla, Wolfgang - 2020 - This version: April 2020

International carbon markets are frequently propagated as an efficient instrument for reducing CO2 emissions. We argue that such markets, despite their desirable efficiency properties, might not be in the best interest of governments who are guided by strategic considerations in negotiations. We...

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Implications of inequality aversion for international climate policy

Vogt, Carla; Sturm, Bodo - 2011

In this paper, we extend the Fehr and Schmidt model of inequality aversion to a situation where the players differ with respect to their benefits and costs from contributions to a non-linear public good. A necessary condition for contributing to the public good is that the players’ benefit...

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Negotiating weights for burden sharing rules among heterogeneous parties : empirical evidence from a survey among delegates in international climate negotiations

Kesternich, Martin; Löschel, Andreas; Ziegler, Andreas - 2014

Given the vital and controversial debate on fairness concerns in international climate negotiations, the acceptance of a climate treaty may be fostered if the distribution of costs and benefits from global environmental protection is perceived to be "fair". Since an agreement must be acceptable...

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Ratchet up or down? : an experimental investigation of global public good provision in the United Nations Youth Associations Network

Gallier, Carlo; Kesternich, Martin; Löschel, Andreas; … - 2017

From a current perspective the Paris Agreement is not sufficient to limit the global mean temperature below 2°C above pre-industrial level as intended. The Agreement stipulates that parties review, compare and ratchet up efforts to combat climate change over time. Within this process,...

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Mixed motives : an empirical analysis of ILO roll-call votes

Boockmann, Bernhard - 2002

In this empirical paper, we look at individual voting behaviour of government delegates to the International Labour … Organization (ILO). We distinguish between the instrumental motive for voting, which consists in the chance that one's vote may … from 1977 to 1995. The hypothesis that voting is only instrumental is clearly rejected by the data. …

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Mixed motives : an empirical analysis of ILO roll-call votes

Boockmann, Bernhard - 2002

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Vote buying or (political) business (cycles) as usual?

Aidt, Toke; Asatryan, Zareh; Badalyan, Lusine; … - 2015

We provide new evidence on the short-run effect of elections on monetary aggregates. We study month-to-month fluctuations in the growth rate of M1 in a sample of 85 low and middle income democracies from 1975 to 2009. The evidence shows an increase in the growth rate of M1 during election months...

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Election cycles in European public procurement

Havlik, Annika; Heinemann, Friedrich; Nover, Justus - 2021

This paper studies the existence of election cycles in public procurement in the European Union for the national level. We analyze different steps along the procurement process, namely the publication of the contract notice, the awarding of the contract, and the project completion. We point out...

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Personality traits and cognitive ability in political selection

Jokela, Markus; Meriläinen, Jaakko; Tukiainen, Janne; … - 2023 - February 2023 (first version July 2022, second version August 2022)

We present the first comprehensive evidence on the role of cognitive ability and personality traits in the selection of electoral candidates and election of politicians. Using unique data that combine population registers and election statistics from local government elections in Finland with...

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