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due to the public good nature of pollution abatement. The theory of international environmental agreements (IEAs) in … social preferences into a model of international environmental agreements. Focusing on Charness-Rabin social preferences, we …
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Nonprofits supply many tax-financed services like healthcare and education. Yet nonprofits are absent from the canonical property rights theory of ownership. Extending the government "make or buy" decision to nonprofits and ex post frictions based on contracts as reference points suggests that...
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The Gold Pool (1961-1968) was one of the most ambitious cases of central bank cooperation in history. Major central banks pooled interventions - sharing profits and losses - to stabilize the dollar price of gold. Why did it collapse? From at least 1964, the fate of the Pool was in fact tied to...
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greenhouse gases throughout the industrialized world, and the Clean Development Mechanism -- an international emission … various types of linkages, and analyze the near-term and long-term role that linkage may play in a future international …
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We examine the role of non-economic partnerships in promoting international economic exchange. Since far …-sighted countries are more willing to join costly international partnerships such as environmental treaties, environmental engagement … tends to encourage international lending. Countries with such non-economic partnerships also find it easier to engage in …
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This article tells how the world achieved a working consensus on the core principles of monetary policy. The story … inflation follow from an international acceptance of these ideas? And how did a consensus theoretical model develop in academia …
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This paper places current efforts at international economic policy coordination in historical perspective. It argues …
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system: international liquidity and exchange rate management. Despite radical changes since World War II in the market … context for liquidity and exchange rate concerns, they remain central to discussions of international macroeconomic policy …
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In this paper, we consider a number of issues regarding crime prevention and criminal justice. We begin by considering how crime is measured and present both general and specific evidence on the level of crime in a variety of countries. Crime is pervasive and varies substantially across...
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We try to demonstrate how economists may engage in research on comparative politics, relating the size and composition of government spending to the political system. A Downsian model of electoral competition and forward-looking voting indicates that majoritarian -- as opposed to proportional --...
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