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Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility
Tirole, Jean; Bénabou, Roland - 2010
Society’s demands for individual and corporate social responsibility as an alternative response to market and …” of prosocial behavior to shed light on this trend, which reflects a complex interplay of genuine altruism, social or self … image concerns, and material incentives. We then link individual concerns to corporate social responsibility, contrasting …
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Environmental Participation and Environmental Motivation
Torgler, Benno; Garcia-Valiñas, Maria Angeles; … - 2014
We explore whether environmental motivation affects environmental behavior by focusing on volunteering. The paper first introduces a theoretical model of volunteering in environmental organizations. In a next step, it tests the hypothesis working with a large micro data set covering 32 countries...
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Warm-Glow Giving in Networks with Multiple Public Goods
Richefort, Lionel - 2017
This paper explores a voluntary contribution game in the presence of warm-glow effects. There are many public goods and each public good benefits a different group of players. The structure of the game induces a bipartite network structure, where players are listed on one side and the public...
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Contagious Cooperation, Temptation, and Ecosystem Collapse
Richter, Andries - 2013
Real world observations suggest that social norms of cooperation can be effective in overcoming social dilemmas such as the joint management of a common pool resource – but also that they can be subject to slow erosion and sudden collapse. We show that these patterns of erosion and collapse...
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An Adaptation-Mitigation Game : Does Adaptation Promote Participation in International Environmental Agreements?
Submitter, FEEM RPS; Borrero, Miguel; Rubio, Santiago J. - 2021
This paper studies how the investment in adaptation can influence the participation in an international environmental agreement (IEA) when countries decide in adaptation before they choose their levels of emissions. Two types of agreements are studied, a complete agreement for which countries...
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International Environmental Agreements Under Uncertainty : Does the Veil of Uncertainty Help?
Finus, Michael; Pintassilgo, Pedro - 2010
Na and Shin (1998) showed that the veil of uncertainty can be conducive to the success of self-enforcing international environmental agreements. Later papers confirmed this negative conclusion about the role of learning. In the light of intensified research efforts worldwide to reduce...
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Equity and Justice in Global Warming Policy
Kverndokk, Snorre; Rose, Adam - 2015
Many countries are implementing or at least considering policies to counter increasingly certain negative impacts from climate change. An increasing amount of research has been devoted to the analysis of the costs of climate change and its mitigation, as well as to the design of policies, such...
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Sticks and Carrots for the Design of International Climate Agreements with Renegotiations
Weikard, Hans-Peter; Dellink, Rob - 2008
This paper examines stability of international climate agreements for carbon abatement under an optimal transfer rule and renegotiations. The optimal transfer rule suggested to stabilise international environmental agreements (Weikard 2005, Carraro, Eyckmans and Finus 2006) is no longer optimal...
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Self-Enforcing International Environmental Agreements : Adaptation and Complementarity
Rubio, Santiago J. - 2018
This paper studies the impact of adaptation on the stability of an international emission agreement. To address this issue we solve a three-stage coalition formation game where in the first stage countries decide whether or not to sign the agreement. Then, in the second stage, signatories...
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Towards the Optimal Management of the Northeast Arctic Cod Fishery
Richter, Andries - 2011
The objectives pursued by governments managing fisheries may include maximizing profits, minimizing the impact on the marine ecosystem, or securing employment, which all require adjusting the composition of the fishing fleet. We develop a management plan that can be adapted to those objectives...
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