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Inducing environmental co-operation by the design of emission permits

Ohl, Cornelia - 2002

Strategies of international risk management, as the implementation of tradable emission permits, feed back to the incentive structure of a treaty, like the Kyoto Protocol. Discussing the Kyoto Protocol the question was: Should there be any restrictions on the trading of emission permits or not?...

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Contracting for impure public goods : carbon offsets and additionality

Mason, Charles F.; Plantinga, Andrew - 2011

Governments contracting with private agents for the provision of an impure public good must contend with agents who would potentially supply the good absent any payments. This additionality problem is centrally important in the use of carbon offsets as part of climate change mitigation....

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Why do firms hold oil stockpiles?

Mason, Charles F. - 2011

Persistent and significant privately-held stockpiles of crude oil have long been an important empirical regularity in the United States. Such stockpiles would not rationally be held in a traditional Hotelling-style model. How then can the existence of these inventories be explained? In the...

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Building uncertainty into the adaptation cost estimation in integrated assessment models

Markandya, Anil; De Cian, Enrica; Drouet, Laurent; … - 2016

This paper proposes an operationally simple and easily generalizable methodology to incorporate climate change damage uncertainty into Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs). Uncertainty is transformed into a risk-premium, damage-correction, region-specific factor by extracting damage distribution...

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Domestic politics and the formation of international environmental agreements

Dietz, Simon; Marchiori, Carmen; Tavoni, Alessandro - 2012

The theory of international environmental agreements overwhelmingly assumes that governments engage as unitary agents. Each government makes choices based on benefits and costs that are simple national aggregates, and similarly on a single set of national-level motivations, together drawing a...

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On the role of information in contests

Dubey, Pradeep - 2012 - Rev.

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Incumbent advantage, voter information and vote buying

Cruz, Cesi; Keefer, Philip; Labonne, Julien - 2016

Results from a new experiment shed light on the effects of voter information on vote buying and incumbent advantage …. The treatment provided voters with information about a major spending program and the proposed allocations and promises of … targeted for vote buying. We develop a model of vote buying that accounts for these results. The information raised voter …

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Payoff information and self-confirming equilibrium

Dekel, Eddie; Fudenberg, Drew; Levine, David K. - 1999

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Real options analysis of fishing fleet dynamics : a test

Bosetti, Valentina; Tomberlin, David - 2004

This paper develops and tests a dynamic optimization model of fishermen's investment behavior in a limited-entry fishery. Because exit from limited-entry fisheries may be irreversible, the fisherman has an incentive to maintain the right to fish (whether by actually fishing or by purchasing an...

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Biodiversity conservation on private lands : information problems and regulatory choices

Goeschl, Timo; Lin, Tun - 2004

This survey paper examines various information insufficiencies in biodiversity conservation and their impact of … information, and 4) monitoring problem. The consequences of these four types of information insufficiencies on the choice of …

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