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Simulating Coalitionally Stable Burden Sharing Agreements for the Climate Change Problem
Eyckmans, Johan; Tulkens, Henry - 2001
In this paper we introduce the CLIMNEG World Simulation (CWS) model for simulating cooperative game theoretic aspects of global climate negotiations. The model is derived from the seminal RICE model by Nordhaus and Yang (1996). We first state the necessary conditions that determine optimal...
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Overlapping Climate Policies
Perino, Grischa; Ritz, Robert A.; van Benthem, Arthur - 2022
Major carbon-pricing systems in Europe and North America involve multiple countries or states. Individual jurisdictions often pursue additional initiatives---such as unilateral carbon price floors, legislation to phase out coal, aviation taxes or support programs for renewable energy---that...
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Climate policy and the intertemporal supply of fossil resources
Beermann, Christian - 2015
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...
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Shallow meritocracy: an experiment on fairness views
Andre, Peter - 2021
Meritocracies aspire to reward effort and hard work but promise not to judge individuals by the circumstances they were born into. The choice to work hard is, however, often shaped by circumstances. This study investigates whether people's merit judgments are sensitive to this endogeneity of...
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Distributive justice in international environmental policy - theoretical foundation and exemplary formulation
Helm, Carsten; Simonis, Udo E. - 2000
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The political economy of negotiating international carbon markets
Arvaniti, Maria; Habla, Wolfgang - 2020
International carbon markets are frequently propagated as an efficient instrument for reducing CO2 emissions. We argue that such markets, despite their desirable efficiency properties, might not be in the best interest of governments who are guided by strategic considerations in negotiations. We...
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The political economy of negotiating international carbon markets
Arvaniti, Maria; Habla, Wolfgang - 2020 - This version: April 2020
International carbon markets are frequently propagated as an efficient instrument for reducing CO2 emissions. We argue that such markets, despite their desirable efficiency properties, might not be in the best interest of governments who are guided by strategic considerations in negotiations. We...
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Cooperation in international environmental negotiations due to a preference for equity
Lange, Andreas; Vogt, Carla - 2001
This paper demonstrates that cooperation in international environmental negotiations can be explained by preferences for equity. Within a N-country prisoner's dilemma in which agents can either cooperate or defect, in addition to the standard non-cooperative equilibrium, cooperation of a large...
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Chapter 30 The Economics of Climate Policy
Kolstad, Charles D.; Toman, Michael - In: Handbook of environmental economics : volume 3, …, (pp. 1561-1618). 2005
Economics has played an increasingly important role in shaping policy, in the United States and elsewhere. This chapter reviews some of the dimensions of the economic approach to analyzing, understanding, and developing solutions to the problem of climate change. We then turn to the issue of...
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Towards sustainable carbon markets : requirements for ecologically effective, economically efficient, and socially just emissions trading schemes
Rudolph, Sven; Lenz, Christine; Lerch, Achim; Volmert, … - 2011
existence often suffer from dilution in terms of ecological effectiveness, economic efficiency, and social justice. Thus, in … ecological effectiveness, economic efficiency and social justice and operationalizes them for giving design recommendations for … modern climate justice thinking in order to discuss the three criteria. In addition, design and implication analysis is …
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