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Community-Based Adaptation : Lessons from the Development Marketplace 2009 on Adaptation to Climate Change
Heltberg, Rasmus; Prabhu, Radhika; Gitay, Habiba - 2010
The Development Marketplace 2009 focused on adaptation to climate change. This paper identifies lessons from the … Marketplace and assesses their implications for adaptation support. Our findings are based on: statistical tabulation of all …-based adaptation should: exploit its strong local grounding and synergies with development; help connect local initiatives to higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014192018
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Adaptation Can Help Mitigation : An Integrated Approach to Post-2012 Climate Policy
Bosello, Francesco; Carraro, Carlo; De Cian, Enrica - 2013
policy measures, adaptation will be needed to address climate-related damages. What is the role of adaptation in this setting … adaptation and mitigation expenditures in a cost-effective setting in which countries cooperate to achieve a long … different adaptation modes (reactive and anticipatory), mitigation, and capacity-building to analyse the optimal portfolio of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014042204
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The Strength of Weak Leaders - An Experiment on Social Influence and Social Learning in Teams
Buechel, Berno - 2018
We investigate how the selection process of a leader affects team performance with respect to social learning. We use a … models of social learning to investigate the micro-level mechanisms. We find that overconfidence and conservatism contribute …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012924442
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Learning from Experts
Valsecchi, Irene - 2013
The survey is concerned with the issue of information transmission from experts to non-experts. Two main approaches to the use of experts can be traced. According to the game-theoretic approach expertise is a case of asymmetric information between the expert, who is the better informed agent,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014218726
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Extrapolation in Games of Coordination and Dominance Solvable Games
Mengel, Friederike; Sciubba, Emanuela - 2011
We study extrapolation between games in a laboratory experiment. Participants in our experiment first play either the dominance solvable guessing game or a Coordination version of the guessing game for five rounds. Afterwards they play a 3x3 normal form game for ten rounds with random matching...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014187526
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Naive Learning in Social Networks : Convergence, Influence and Wisdom of Crowds
Jackson, Matthew O.; Golub, Benjamin - 2012
We study learning and influence in a setting where agents communicate according to an arbitrary social network and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049685
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On Sharing the Benefits of Communication
Athanasiou, Efthymios; Dey, Santanu; Valletta, Giacomo - 2012
. In order to communicate they need to have a language in common. Learning languages is costly. In this setting no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014167264
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Too Much Oil
Gerlagh, Reyer - 2010
Fear for oil exhaustion and its consequences on economic growth has been a driver of a rich literature on exhaustible resources from the 1970s onwards. But our view on oil has remarkably changed and we now worry how we should constrain climate change damages associated with oil and other fossil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197584
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Investments and Financial Flows Induced by Climate Mitigation Policies
Bastianin, Andrea; Favero, Alice; Massetti, Emanuele - 2013
In this paper we use the hybrid integrated model WITCH to quantify and analyze the investments and financial flows stimulated by a climate policy to stabilize Greenhouse Gases concentrations at 550ppm CO2-eq at the end of the century. We focus on investments to decarbonize the power sector and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197607
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What Drives the International Transfer of Climate Change Mitigation Technologies? Empirical Evidence from Patent Data
Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Glachant, Matthieu; … - 2012
Using patent data from 66 countries for the period 1990–2003, we characterize the factors which promote or hinder the international diffusion of climate-friendly technologies on a global scale. Regression results show that technology-specific capabilities of the recipient countries are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197616