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Implications of inequality aversion for international climate policy
Vogt, Carla; Sturm, Bodo - 2011
In this paper, we extend the Fehr and Schmidt model of inequality aversion to a situation where the players differ with respect to their benefits and costs from contributions to a non-linear public good. A necessary condition for contributing to the public good is that the players’ benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009244226
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Die Sachs-Easterly-Kontroverse : "Dissent on Development" revisited
Hielscher, Stefan - 2008
Der entwicklungsökonomische Diskurs ist aktuell geprägt durch eine kontroverse Debatte zwischen Jeffrey Sachs und William Easterly. Der Beitrag rekonstruiert beide Ansätze aus ordonomischer Perspektive. Er argumentiert, dass eine auf Kooperation angelegte Semantik vergleichsweise besser...
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Some policy lessons from medical/therapeutic responses to the COVID-19 crisis: a rich research system for knowledge generation and dysfunctional institutions for its exploitation
Dosi, Giovanni - 2021
This note discusses the medical/therapeutical responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and their “political economy” context. First, the very quick development of several vaccines highlights the richness of the basic knowledge waiting for therapeutical exploitation. Such knowledge has largely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520259
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Negotiating weights for burden sharing rules among heterogeneous parties : empirical evidence from a survey among delegates in international climate negotiations
Kesternich, Martin; Löschel, Andreas; Ziegler, Andreas - 2014
Given the vital and controversial debate on fairness concerns in international climate negotiations, the acceptance of … international climate negotiations to address the question whether negotiating weights for different fairness concepts may enlarge … the bargaining space among heterogeneous agents and overcome the currently dominating self-interested use of fairness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357594
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On the Importance of Equity in International Climate Policy : An Empirical Analysis
Lange, Andreas - 2008
Based on unique data from a world-wide survey of agents involved in international climate policy, this paper empirically analyzes the importance of equity in this field. We find that equity issues are considered highly important in international climate negotiations and that the polluter-pays...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012727020
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On the Self-Serving Use of Equity Principles in International Climate Negotiations
Lange, Andreas - 2010
fairness concerns and in order to facilitate the negotiations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012717240
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Implications of Inequality Aversion for International Climate Policy
Vogt, Carsten; Sturm, Bodo - 2011
In this paper, we extend the Fehr and Schmidt model of inequality aversion to a situation where the players differ with respect to their benefits and costs from contributions to a non-linear public good. A necessary condition for contributing to the public good is that the players’ benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014178828
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Coordinated carbon taxes or tightened NDCs : distributional implications of two options for climate negotiations
Mukanjari, Samson; Sterner, Thomas - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 3 (2023) 1, pp. 1-29
Concerns about fairness among countries remain significant obstacles to a stronger global climate treaty. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014423504
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Heterogeneous international agreements : if per capita emission levels matter
Lange, Andreas - 2002
This paper studies the incentives for international cooperation if (some) countries prefer a more equitable distribution of per capita emission levels. The impact of such an equity preference is analyzed first for a bilateral, and then for a multilateral environmental problem. We show that -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598232
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Heterogeneous International Agreements - If Per Capita Emission Levels Matter
Lange, Andreas - 2003
In this paper, we study the incentives for international cooperation if (some) countries prefer a more equitable distribution of per capita emission levels. For countries that differ with respect to their population size, we analyze the impact of such an equity preference first for a bilateral,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014096162