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. Mitigation policies have a strict compliance regime using both positive and negative reinforcement. On the other side, adaptation … EU mitigation policies are derived from the international agreementsforreducing and limiting greenhouse gases emissions … the most vulnerable sectors to climate change. By examining the relative projected efficiency of EU's mitigation efforts …
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warming develops. It is thus important that the impacts of climate mitigation policies are assessed not only on global and … national levels, but also on the regional level. The key tool for assessing the efficiency of climate mitigation policies and … function. We compare a business-as-usual scenario (no mitigation policy) with various mitigation scenarios with different …
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I use game-theoretical models to compare a sender's expected payoff under two methods of wielding influence under incomplete information: offering rewards or threatening punishments. Attempts to influence another's behaviour can have the perverse effect of actually encouraging the behaviour that...
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Public health experts caution that global warming increases the likelihood of novel coronaviruses and amplifies their impacts. Such contagions are virtually unique in their ability to inflict catastrophic worldwide harm. Even more alarming is the forecast that future coronavirus pandemics will...
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Global emissions of CO2 need to fall lest climate change will accelerate. Any effective climate policy must raise the price of carbon consumption. From an urban perspective, one desirable effect of a carbon tax would be to induce households to move closer to where they work. This paper shows...
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climate change and worthy to protect. To address these challenges, implementing climate change adaptation measures is … inevitable. The paper provides insights into climate change related risks, opportunities and adaptation actions based on … European cities indicate that they have implemented adaptation action plans and 82.5% of all cities are putting adaptation …
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We reassess the well-known "narrow-but-deep" versus "broad-but-shallow" trade-off in international environmental agreements (IEAs), taking into account the principal-agent relationship induced by the hierarchical structure of international policy. To this end, we expand the modest coalition...
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While illicit capital flight is a major concern of policy makers in developing countries, there is only little research on the possible link between capital flight and development aid. In this paper, we address the issue for Nepal, a stereotypical financially-closed developing economy that is...
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By focusing on the impacts of investment in the disaster areas for reconstruction on the demand-side effects, the purpose of this study is to measure the economic impacts and regional spillover effects of investment for reconstruction. After the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, government...
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