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Terms-of-trade and counterterrorism externalities

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Sandler, Todd; Younas, Javed - 2017

This paper investigates the interplay of trade and terrorism externalities under free trade between a developed nation that exports a manufactured good to and imports a primary product from a developing nation. A terrorist organization targets both nations and reduces its attacks in response to...

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Quantifying non-cooperative climate engineering

Emmerling, Johannes; Tavoni, Massimo - 2017

The mismatch between actions to combat climate change, which are based on voluntary national initiatives of limited effort, and the recognition of the importance of global warming is growing. Climate engineering via solar radiation management has been proposed as a possible complement to...

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Safe vs. fair : a formidable trade-off in tackling climate change

Tavoni, Massimo; Chakravarty, Shoibal; Socolow, Robert - 2011

ethical principles. Both safety and fairness must be pursued, and there are severe trade-offs as these are intertwined by the … level of developed vs. developing countries in which safety and fairness are formulated in terms of cumulative emissions and … cumulative per capita emissions respectively. It becomes evident that safety and fairness cannot be achieved simultaneously for …

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Luring others into climate action : coalition formation games with threshold and spillover effects

Bosetti, Valentina; Heugues, Melanie; Tavoni, Alessandro - 2015

We study the effect of leadership in an experimental threshold public "bad" game, where we manipulate both the relative returns of two investments (the more productive of which causes a negative externality) and the extent to which the gains from leadership diffuse to the group. The game...

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Politically influenced counterterrorism policy and welfare efficiency

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Sandler, Todd - 2022

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The not so gentle push - behavioral spillovers and policy instruments

D'Adda, Giovanna; Capraro, Valerio; Tavoni, Massimo - 2015

We examine whether spillovers of pro-social behavior depend on how behavioral changes are induced. We conduct a large experiment using economic games, with a Dictator Game (DG) followed by either an identical game or a Prisoner’s Dilemma (PD). We influence initial behavior through widely used...

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