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Sharing R&D Investments in Cleaner Technologies to Mitigate Climate Change

El-Sayed, Abeer - 2014

This paper examines international cooperation on technological development as an alternative to international … cooperation on GHG emission reductions. It is assumed that when countries cooperate they coordinate their investments so as to … spillover effects of their investments in R&D. In order to analyze the scope of cooperation, an agreement formation game is …

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Sharing R&D Investments in Breakthrough Technologies to Control Climate Change

Rubio, Santiago J. - 2016

This paper examines international cooperation on technological development as an alternative to international … cooperation on GHG emission reductions. In order to analyze the scope of cooperation, a three-stage technology agreement formation …

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International Cooperation on Climate Change Adaptation from an Economic Perspective

De Bruin, Kelly C. - 2010

studies for different forms of cooperation what effects international adaptation transfers will have on (i) domestic …

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Multiple Membership and Federal Sructures

Savvateev, Alexei V. - 2008

We consider a model of the world with several regions that may create a unified entity or be partitioned into several unions (countries). The regions have distinct preferences over policies chosen in the country to which they belong and equally share the cost of public policies. It is known that...

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The Grand Experiment of Communism : Discovering the Trade-Off between Equality and Efficiency

Farvaque, Étienne; Mihailov, Alexander; Naghavi, Alireza - 2013

This paper aims to explain the rise and fall of communism by exploring the interplay between economic incentives and social preferences transmitted by ideology. We introduce inequality-averse and inefficiency-averse agents and analyze their conflict through the interaction between leaders with...

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Using the Law to Change the Custom

Aldashev, Gani; Chaara, Imane; Platteau, Jean-Philippe; … - 2010

We build a simple model of legal dualism in which a pro-poor legal reform, under certain conditions, causes the conflicting custom to go some way toward producing the change intended by the legislator. It then acts as an "outside anchor" that exerts a "magnet effect" on the custom. We illustrate...

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Rent Seekers in Rentier States : When Greed Brings Peace

Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Naghavi, Alireza - 2010

Are natural resources a source of conflict or stability? Empirical studies demonstrate that rents from natural resources, and in particular oil, are an important source of civil war. Allegedly, resource rents attract rent seekers, which destabilize society. However, there is a large literature...

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Citizens’ Protests : causes and consequences. A Research on Regime Change and Revolutionary Entrepreneurs by Bueno De Mesquita

Gilli, Mario; Giorgini, Filippo - 2022

Citizens political participation to protests is a crucial issue for any political system, whether democratic or autocratic. Political systems have different ways of dealing with citizens’ protests, determining cost and benefit of public dissent, responding to public requests and allowing...

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Farsighted Stability with Heterogeneous Expectations

Bloch, Francis - 2017

This paper analyzes farsighted stable sets when agents have heterogeneous expectations over the dominance paths. We consider expectation functions satisfying two properties of path-persistence and consistency. We show that farsighted stable sets with heterogeneous expectations always exist and...

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On the Timing of Political Regime Changes : Theory and Application to the Arab Spring

Boucekkine, Raouf - 2014

We develop a continuous time dynamic game to provide with a benchmark theory of Arab Spring-type events. We consider a resource-dependent economy with two interacting groups, the elite vs. the citizens, and two political regimes, dictatorship vs. a freer regime. Transition to the freer regime...

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