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The political economy of international environmental agreements: A survey
Wangler, Leo; Altamirano-Cabrera, Juan-Carlos; Weikard, … - 2011
This paper surveys the recent literature on the political economy of the formation of international environmental agreements. The survey covers theoretical modelling approaches and empirical studies including experimental work. Central to our survey is the question how the political process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331077
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The political economy of international environmental agreements : a survey
Wangler, Leo; Altamirano-Cabrera, Juan-Carlos; Weikard, … - 2011
This paper surveys the recent literature on the political economy of the formation of international environmental agreements. The survey covers theoretical modelling approaches and empirical studies including experimental work. Central to our survey is the question how the political process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009271149
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Price Controls and Electoral Cycles
Agenor, Pierre-Richard - 2006
This paper studies the interactions between electoral considerations and the imposition of price controls by opportunistic policymakers. The analysis shows that a policy cycle emerges in which price controls are imposed in periods leading to the election, and removed immediately afterwards. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012781644
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Side-Payments and the Costs of Conflict
Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2015
Conflict and competition often impose costs on both winners and losers, and conflicting parties may prefer to resolve the dispute before it occurs. The equilibrium of a conflict game with side-payments predicts that with binding offers, proposers make and responders accept side-payments,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013037242
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Terrorism and the State
Konrad, Kai A. - 2011
This paper considers terrorism as an extortion activity. It uses tools from the theory of extortion and from conflict theory to describe how terrorism works, why terrorism is a persistent phenomenon, why terrorism is a violent phenomenon, and how retaliation affects the outcome. The analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014178434
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Contagion and spillovers : new insights from the crisis : a joint publication with the Austrian Society for Bank Research
Backé, Peter (ed.); Gnan, Ernest (ed.);  … - Contagion and Spillovers – New Insights from the …; … - 2010
year's subject of "Contagion and Spillovers – New Insights from the Crisis" turned out to be particularly topical, as first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011706561
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Technology Spillovers and Stability of International Climate Coalitions
Nagashima, Miyuki; Dellink, Rob - 2015
investigate stability of partial climate coalitions. Technology spillovers to coalition members increase their incentives to stay … theories on the impact of technology spillovers are evaluated by simulating a range of alternative specifications. We find that … while spillovers are a good instrument to improve stability of bilateral agreements, they cannot overcome the strong free …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014222615
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Contagion and Spillovers: New Insights from the Crisis
Backé, Peter; Feldkircher, Martin; Gnan, Ernest; … - 2010
year's subject of "Contagion and Spillovers – New Insights from the Crisis" turned out to be particularly topical, as first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011689946
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Contagion and spillovers : new insights from the crisis
Backé, Peter (contributor); Nowotny, Ewald (contributor) - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008859808
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Coalition Formation under Uncertainty: The Stability Likelihood of an International Climate Agreement
Dellink, Rob; Finus, Michael; Olieman, Niels - 2005
Results derived from empirical analyses on the stability of climate coalitions are usually very sensitive to the large uncertainties associated with the benefits and costs of climate policies. This paper provides the methodology of Stability Likelihood that links uncertainty about benefits and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312285