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Trade and Environment Beyond Singapore
Whalley, John - 2021
This paper discusses the likely evolution of the trade and environment issue in the World Trade Organization after the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013234937
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The Environment and Globalization
Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2021
measures of air pollution such as SO2 concentrations. Perceptions that WTO panel rulings have interfered with the ability of … progress under the right conditions – democracy, effective regulation, and externalities that are largely confined within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217954
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Trends in U.S. Spatial Inequality : Concentrating Affluence and a Democratization of Poverty
Gaubert, Cecile; Kline, Patrick; Vergara, Damian; … - 2022
We study trends in income inequality across U.S. states and counties 1960-2019 using a mix of administrative and survey data sources. Both states and counties have diverged in terms of per-capita pre-tax incomes since the late 1990s, with transfers serving to dampen this divergence. County...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014089530
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Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality
Acemoglu, Daron; Naidu, Suresh; Restrepo, Pascual; … - 2013
In this paper we revisit the relationship between democracy, redistribution and inequality. We first explain the … theoretical reasons why democracy is expected to increase redistribution and reduce inequality, and why this expectation may fail … to be realized when democracy is captured by the richer segments of the population; when it caters to the preferences of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071520
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Trade and Environment : Bargaining Outcomes from Linked Negotiations
Abrego, Lisandro; Perroni, Carlo; Whalley, John; Wigle, … - 2022
, opposite to the current developing country reluctance to negotiate in the World Trade Organization on this issue. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310133
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Sustainable Cooperation in Global Climate Policy : Specific Formulas and Emission Targets to Build on Copenhagen and Cancun
Bosetti, Valentina - 2013
We explore a framework that could be used to assign quantitative allocations of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), across countries, one budget period at a time. Under the two-part plan: (i) China, India, and other developing countries accept targets at Business as Usual (BAU) in the coming...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091941
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Overlapping Climate Policies
Perino, Grischa - 2019
Major carbon-pricing systems in Europe and North America involve multiple jurisdictions (countries or states). Individual jurisdictions often pursue additional initiatives—such as unilateral carbon price floors, legislation to phase out coal, aviation taxes or support programs for renewable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012890770
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Tipping Climate Negotiations
Heal, Geoffrey M. - 2011
Thinking about tipping provides a novel perspective on finding a way forward in climate negotiations and suggests an alternative to the current framework of negotiating a global agreement on reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Recent work on non-cooperative games shows games with increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127015
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Political Selection and Persistence of Bad Governments
Acemoglu, Daron - 2010
. Perfect democracy, where current members of the government do not have an incumbency advantage or special powers, always leads … to the emergence of the most competent government. However, any deviation from perfect democracy destroys this result … least competent government can persist forever in office. Moreover, a greater degree of democracy may lead to worse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151384