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Leadership and climate policy
Mideksa, Torben K. - 2021
? When does leadership improve global welfare? The answer depends on how transparent the leader’s abatement technology is for … global welfare unless the crowding-out effect is weak. If there is transparency and the follower can benefit from technology … spillover effects, leadership reduces global welfare unless the spillover effect is sufficiently large. I find that transparency …
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The Strategic Character of the Cooperation Relationship between the EU and the BRIC Countries
Oehler-Sincai, Iulia Monica - 2014
Brazil, the Russian Federation, India and China (Coined under the acronym BRIC at the end of 2001) are alongside the United States of America (USA), Canada, Japan, Mexico and South Africa the strategic partners of the European Union (EU). Although the relationships between the EU and each of the...
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Rising Powers and the Provision of Transnational Public Goods : Conceptual Considerations and Features of South Africa As a Case Study
Klingebiel, Stephan - 2017
The paper delineates three debates, which will be conflated: One line of discussion relates to public goods at transnational level. Here, the referencing of debates regarding the characteristics of “a common good” will be of significance. A second strand addresses the group of countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960431
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The Belt and Road Initiative and Comprehensive Regionalism in Central Asia
Qoraboyev, Ikboljon - 2019
This chapter contributes to comparative regionalism studies by exploring the Belt and Road Initiative (BR) as an emerging regionalism project. We start by stating a need for broad conceptual frameworks to study the BR dynamics and consider the “world of regions” framework as such an...
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Brexit : The Economics of International Disintegration
Sampson, Thomas - 2017
This paper reviews the literature on the likely economic consequences of Brexit and considers the lessons of the Brexit vote for the future of European and global integration. Brexit will make the United Kingdom poorer because it will lead to new barriers to trade and migration between the...
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Bilateral Political Relations and Cross-Border M&As
John, Kose - 2016
We examine the role of bilateral political relations on cross-border merger and acquisition (M&A) activities. Based on a large sample of cross-border deals during 1990- 2010, we find strong and robust evidence that bilateral political relations have large and significant causal effects on...
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History Matters in International Relations : Evidence from Long-Memory Processes in Sino-American Cycles
Ramirez, Carlos D. - 2019
Measures of bilateral political relations are typically long-memory (fractionally integrated) processes. Appropriate inference and interpretation of this property hinges on the underlying reasons behind it. There are three possible explanations: (i) mechanical aggregation, (ii) bilateral...
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The Brexit Conundrum Worsens the UK's Relationship with the European Union
Ryan, John T - 2019
This paper examines the shortcomings in the UK government's Brexit negotiation strategy which reflected Prime Minister Theresa May's weak political leadership. The Prime Minister focused on securing the short-term political survival of her government amidst turbulent and fractious domestic...
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The Impact of Political Relations Between Countries on Economic Relations
Najafi, Amir - 2014
In this paper, we assess the implications of changes in bilateral diplomatic relations with the United States for economic relations. We identify countries whose relations with the US changed during two historic and significant milestones in the past three decades, and a third group of countries...
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A Balanced Threat Assessment of China's South China Sea Policy
Herscovitch, Benjamin - 2018
U.S. lawmakers and analysts see China's efforts to control much of the South China Sea as a serious threat, endangering regional security, freedom of navigation, and the liberal world order. This paper finds that political leaders and experts exaggerate the dangers of China's South China Sea...
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