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Transboundary water conflicts over hydropower and irrigation: Can multilateral development banks help?

Moller, Lars Christian - 2005

social efficiency and regional stability can, under certain conditions, by improved through Pareto-improving investments …

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Decentralized Leadership

Silva, Emilson C.D. - 2016

This paper studies the efficiency of decentralized leadership in federations where selfish regional governments provide regional and federal public goods and the benevolent central government implements interregional earmarked and income transfers. Without residential mobility, unlimited...

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Financing the provision of global public goods

Anand, P. B. - 2002

This paper examines the concept of global public goods (GPGs) and in that context explores the extent of aid (ODA) presently being diverted to GPG provision and whether such diversion skews aid-flows towards some recipients and whether diverting aid to GPG provision crowds out aid for...

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More Security Issues are Needed on the European Union Agenda: Beyond an Academic Concept of In/Security in the Era of Global Terrorism

Krulík, Oldřich; Pernica, Buhoslav; Stejskal, Libor; … - 2009

Security as an objectively existing quality which can be discussed in innumerable ways, but it may hardly be ignored and its significance (let alone its existence) may hardly be doubted. Security is a fundamental human need which is a subject of our efforts for its satisfaction and its chronic...

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Accounting for adaptation and its effectiveness in International Environmental Agreements

Furini, Francesco; Bosello, Francesco - In: Environmental Economics and Policy Studies 23 (2020) 2, pp. 467-493

This paper analyses, within a standard International Environmental Agreement game, the effect of the introduction of adaptation on climate negotiation. The model expands the existing literature by considering a double relation between the two strategies. The common assumption that higher...

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Strategic Implications of Counter-Geoengineering: Clash or Cooperation?

Heyen, Daniel; Horton, Joshua; Moreno-Cruz, Juan - 2018

Solar geoengineering has received increasing attention as an option to temporarily stabilize global temperatures. A key concern surrounding these technologies is that heterogeneous preferences over the optimal amount of cooling combined with low deployment costs may allow the country with the...

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Social motives in intergroup conflict

Weisel, Ori; Zultan, Ro'i - 2013

We experimentally test the social motives behind individual participation in intergroup conflict by manipulating the framing and symmetry of conflict. We find that behavior in conflict depends on whether one is harmed by actions perpetrated by the out-group, but not on one's own influence on the...

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Cooperation, Stability and Self-Enforcement in International Environmental Agreements: A Conceptual Discussion

Tulkens, Henry; Chander, Parkash - 2006

of view of stability. After recalling the two competing concepts of stability in use in the IEA literature, new insights …. Free riding is also evaluated in relation with the alternative forms of stability under scrutiny. Finally, it is asked … efficiency and stability. A skeptical answer is offered, as a reply to Barrett's (2003) attempt at giving the notion a specific …

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Independence Axioms for Water Allocation

van den Brink, Rene; Estevez-Fernandez, Arantza; van … - 2011

We consider the problem of sharing water among agents located along a river. Each agent has quasi-linear preferences over river water and money, where the benefit of consuming an amount of water is given by a continuous and concave benefit function. A solution to the problem efficiently...

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Assignment Games with Externalities

Gudmundsson, Jens; Habis, Helga - 2013

regarding the others' reaction following a deviation. The relationship of stability and optimality is also discussed, as is the …

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