The Paris Agreement requests that both developed and developing countries contribute to mitigation of climate change, but developing countries still require support as their mitigation capacity is limited by social, technological and financial constraints. Prior to the Accord, this support was...

This thesis was written by Christian Beermann while he was a research assistant at the Center for Economic Studies (CES) at the University of Munich. It was completed in December 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in May 2015. The...