This paper argues that the Kyoto Protocol to the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change was doomed to face difficulties ab initio. It explains why this is the case by analyzing the Kyoto Protocol’s shortcomings and deficiencies. Moving the climate change agenda forward multilaterally...

The study here presented reviews the institutional structure of the Sudanese government. Truly, though it is stigmatized as totalitarian, the structure is phenotypically perfect. Ministry of Ministries council is supposed to cater for analyzing data concerning ministries performance, drawing...

Does political affiliation with the government in power lead to better protection from terrorism and to a lower probability of exposure to attacks? How do government's protective measures affect terrorists' decision of whom to attack? In this paper, I analyze these questions using a formal model...

Followers of law, politics and business commonly relate stories of individuals who appear to predict an expected self-performance level below what they believe likely. Candidates, attorneys and firms sometimes seem to under-predict their own capacities. Insofar as individuals typically construct...

In this paper, we consider the problem that a benevolent designer wants to provide a non-excludable public good with a fixed cost to agents with privately known valuations. Adopting utilitarian's point of view, the designer maximizes the ex-ante total utility of all agents. The impossibility...

This is Chapter 10 of Environmental Economics: An Integrated Approach and it provides an overview of the environmental valuations commonly used in environmental economics prior to detailed treatments in later chapters

This is the Preface to Environmental Economics: An Integrated Approach, and it provides a description of the approach taken throughout the book. The approach is to first understand how environmental policy would be conducted in a world of "perfect information," then move on to sources of...

We introduce the new typology of institutions. The classification is made via the methods for preparing of new generation to activity in a frame of the institution. We detect that only three types of institutions exist. First is the personality-nominal type of institutional coding individual:...

This article frames environmentally sound innovation in the context of transnational network theory with the goal of setting forth a preliminary framework for international legal policy coherence. I consider how network dynamics can facilitate broad diffusion of environmentally sound...