This paper was prepared for the OECD-IEA Climate Change Expert Group (formerly called the Annex I Expert Group) for the purpose of providing useful and timely input on specific topics relevant to international negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)....

A global monopoly supplier country of necessary inputs for the provision of global public goods has an incentive to subsidize these exports. The strategic interdependence in the global public good context reverses the "large country" incentives to manipulate the terms-of-trade. It is optimal for...

This paper investigates the implications of U.S. withdrawal on environmental effectiveness, economic efficiency, and the distribution of compliance costs taking into account market power of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) on emission permit markets. While exercise of market power on behalf of FSU...

This paper studies uniform-price auctions for multiple units of airport slots in which the airlines purchase slots for take-off and landing at an airport. It considers strategic behavior on the part of bidding airlines and on the part of airport authority, who acts as a seller and decides supply...