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Provincial and Local Governments in China: Fiscal Institutions and Government Behavior
Gordon, Roger H.; Li, Wei - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
What are the incentives faced by local officials in China? Without democratic institutions, there is no mechanism for … successes and the problems arising from local government activity in China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805812
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What Role for Trade in a Post 2012 Global Climate Policy Regime
Whalley, John - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This paper discusses the role that trade can potentially play in both negotiating and operating a post Kyoto/post 2012 global climate policy regime. As an addition to the bargaining set for a global climate negotiation, trade in principle widens the range of jointly beneficial potential outcomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325502
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Embodied Carbon Tariffs
Rutherford, Thomas F.; Böhringer, Christoph; Carbone, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
In a world where the prospects of a global agreement to control greenhouse gas emissions are bleak, the idea of using trade policy as an implicit regulation of foreign emission sources has gained many supporters in countries contemplating unilateral climate policies. Embodied carbon tariffs tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009277238
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China's Participation in Global Environmental Negotiations
Whalley, John; Tian, Huifang - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
In the paper we discuss China's participation in both the 2009 Copenhagen negotiations on a post-Kyoto global climate … change regime currently under way and out beyond Copenhagen in further negotiations likely to follow. China is now both the …. In the Copenhagen negotiation, there will be strong pressure on China to take on emissions reduction commitments and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005580273
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Cross Country Fairness Considerations and Country Implications of Alternative Approaches to a Global Emission Reduction Regime
Whalley, John; Tian, Huifang; Shi, Xiaojun - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
objective of involving large developing countries such as China and India in a post 2012 regime, broader considerations imply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010578386
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Feeling the Heat: Temperature, Physiology & the Wealth of Nations
Heal, Geoffrey; Park, Jisung - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Does temperature affect economic performance? Has temperature always affected social welfare through its impact on physical and cognitive function? While many economic studies have explored the indirect links between climate and welfare (e.g. agriculture, conflict, sea-level rise), few address...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821681
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Climatic Fluctuations and the Diffusion of Agriculture
Ashraf, Quamrul; Michalopoulos, Stelios - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This research examines the climatic origins of the diffusion of Neolithic agriculture across countries and archaeological sites. The theory suggests that a foraging society s history of climatic shocks shaped the timing of its adoption of farming. Specifically, as long as climatic disturbances...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821960
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Games and Resources
Harstad, Bård; Liski, Matti - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This article presents a sequence of simple and related models to analyze the strategic use of natural resources. Game theory is the natural tool for such an analysis, whether the resource is private or publicly owned, whether it is renewable or exhaustible, whether the game is static or dynamic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969250
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State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James Alan; García-Jimeno, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We study the direct and spillover effects of local state capacity using the network of Colombian municipalities. We model the determination of local and national state capacity as a network game in which each municipality, anticipating the choices and spillovers created by other municipalities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969364
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People, Places and Public Policy: Some Simple Welfare Economics of Local Economic Development Programs
moretti, enrico; Kline, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Most countries exhibit large and persistent geographical differences in wages, income and unemployment rates. A growing class of "place based" policies attempt to address these differences through public investments and subsidies that target disadvantaged neighborhoods, cities or regions. Place...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887109