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Local electoral rewards from centralized social programs : are mayors getting the credit?

Rodríguez-Chamussy, Lourdes - 2015

This paper uses variation in the timing of the Mexican antipoverty program's introduction across municipalities to identify its impact on the share of votes for the local incumbent party. Evidence is found that voters reward the mayor's party for the central benefit to their constituencies,...

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Tipping points and loss aversion in international environmental agreements

İriş, Doruk; Tavoni, Alessandro - 2016

We study the impact of loss-aversion and the threat of catastrophic damages, which we jointly call threshold concerns …, on international environmental agreements. We aim to understand whether a threshold for dangerous climate change is as an …), or low damages (gain domain). Under symmetry, that is when countries display identical degrees of threshold concern, we …

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Do temperature thresholds threaten American farmland?

Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, Robert O. - 2017

Estimated Ricardian models have been criticized because they rely on mean temperatures and do not explicitly include extreme temperatures. This paper uses a cross sectional approach to compare a standard quadratic Ricardian model of mean temperature with a fully flexible daily temperature bin...

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International cooperation on climate change adaptation from an economic perspective

De Bruin, Kelly C.; Dellink, Rob; Tol, Richard S. J. - 2010

This paper investigates the economic incentives of countries to cooperate on international adaptation financing. Adaptation is generally implicitly incorporated in the climate change damage functions as used in Integrated Assessment Models. We replace the implicit decision on adaptation with...

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The effect of risk, ambiguity and coordination on farmers' adaptation to climate change : a framed field experiment

Alpízar R., Francisco; Carlsson, Frederik; Naranjo, Maria - 2010

The risk of losses of income and productive means due to adverse weather associated to climate change can significantly differ between farmers sharing a productive landscape. It is important to learn more about how farmers react to different levels of risk, under measurable and unmeasurable...

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Equity and justice in global warming policy

Kverndokk, Snorre; Rose, Adam - 2008

Many countries are implementing or at least considering policies to counter increasingly certain negative impacts from climate change. An increasing amount of research has been devoted to the analysis of the costs of climate change and its mitigation, as well as to the design of policies, such...

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Leadership and international climate cooperation

Schwerhoff, Gregor - 2013

Which kind of reaction can a nation or group of nations expect when leading by example in climate policy? This literature survey describes possible positive reaction mechanisms from different fields of economics, some of which have scarcely been linked to climate economics previously. One effect...

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The global emission game : on the impact of strategic interactions between countries on the existence and the properties of nash equilibria

Heugues, Mélanie - 2013

In a context of laissez-faire, the propositions established in this paper shed light on the evolution of the problem of greenhouse gas (GHG) accumulation in the atmosphere for each type of strategic behaviour resulting from countries' interconnection on global markets. In a framework of strong...

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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 game is solved. First, countries decide whether or not...

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Sharing R&D investments in cleaner technologies to mitigate climate change

El-Sayed, Abeer; Rubio, Santiago J. - 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 minimize the agreement costs of controlling emissions and...

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