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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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Brazilian maritime GDP, social, economic and environmental motivations for its measurement and monitoring

Andrade, Israel de Oliveira; Hillebrand, Giovanni Roriz Lyra - 2022

The interaction between the sea and the economy gives this environment enormous strategic importance. The forms of economic exploitation are diverse and include sectors such as energy, fishing, tourism, transportation, biotechnology, and shipbuilding. For Brazil, country with an extensive...

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

Boockmann, Bernhard - 2002

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Delegation and recruitment in organizations: The slippery slope to "bad" leadership

Çakır, Selcen; Matakos, Konstantinos; Tukiainen, Janne - 2022

We construct a dynamic model of two-sided sorting in labor markets with multi-dimensional agent and firm heterogeneity. We apply it to study optimal party structure and the decision of how (de)centralized candidate recruitment should be. Parties are non-unitary actors and compete at the local...

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Selfish and Prospective. Theory and Evidence of Pocketbook Voting

Elinder, Mikael; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2008

We present and test a theory of prospective and retrospective pocketbook voting. Focusing on two large reforms in … Sweden, we establish a causal chain from policies to sizeable individual gains and losses and then to voting. The Social …-in-differences strategy for identification. We find clear evidence of prospective pocketbook voting. Voters respond to campaign promises but …

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Returns to office in national and local politics

Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Poutvaara, Panu; Tervio, Marko - 2013

We study the returns to political office using data from Finnish parliamentary elections in 1970-2007 and municipal elections in 1996-2008. The discontinuity of electoral outcomes in individual candidate votes allows us to estimate the causal effect of being electedon subsequent income. Getting...

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Civil rights protests and election outcomes : exploring the effects of the Poor People's Campaign

Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Karbownik, … - 2024

The Poor People's Campaign (PPC) of 1968 was focused on highlighting, and ultimately reducing, poverty in the United States. As part of the campaign, protestors from across the country were transported to Washington, D.C. in 6 separate bus caravans, each of which made stops en route to rest,...

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Political consequences of consumer debt relief

Aidt, Toke; Asatryan, Zareh; Badalyan, Lusine - 2022

We study consumer debt relief as a tool of distributive politics and ask if debt relief can influence elections. We utilize quasi-experimental variation generated by a very large debt relief program enacted in the Republic of Georgia by a private foundation that affected every sixth voter. We...

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Political budget cycles in European public procurement

Havlik, Annika - 2020

This paper studies whether political budget cycles occur in public procurement in the European Union. Using project- level data from Tenders Electronic Daily (2008-2018), I analyze different steps along the procurement process, namely the publication of the contract notice, the awarding of the...

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The limits of transparency as a means of reducing corruption

Parra, Daniel; Muñoz-Herrera, Manuel; Palacio, Luis - 2019

We use a laboratory experiment to study the impact of transparency on reducing corruption in contexts where embezzlement and bribery can co-occur. These contexts are closely related to grand corruption settings, where different types of corruption occur and allow people in power to take...

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