Global environmental problems: The effects of unilateral actions taken by one country

Hoel, Michael

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“…To capture the potential interactions across city decision-makers, we follow Hoel (1991) by introducing a simple model with spatial spillovers concerning a public healthcare spending game. Specifically, there are two cities, i = 1, 2, in this noncooperative game.…”

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On the supply of China's healthcare resources in a decentralized healthcare system

Zheng

Jing

et al. 2015

The Social Science Journal

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The structure of China's current governance bears prominent features of fiscal decentralization. The supply of healthcare resources in China has clearly witnessed slower growth in the last two decades during which the fiscal decentralization process has taken place. Using China's provincial panel data, we examine the determinants of healthcare resource supply while paying particular attention to the role of fiscal decentralization. We find that the supply of healthcare resources is inversely related to the degree of decentralization, which, using spatial econometrics, is attributed to the presence of strategic substitutes in healthcare spending across city governments. These findings have important implications for policy makers in making fiscal arrangements among different government tiers.

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On the supply of China's healthcare resources in a decentralized healthcare system

Zheng

Jing

et al. 2015

The Social Science Journal

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“…Scope effects can induce positively sloped reaction curves with respect to reduction efforts. They can explain the seemingly irrational "commitments" of a country to foster unilateral reductions (Hoel (1991)). When strong economies of scope exist which a country has not yet taken into account, increased reduction efforts can maximize the net benefits.…”

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Managing Global Pollution Problems by Reduction and Adaptation Policies

Stähler¹

1998

Contributions to Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in MANAGING GLOBAL POLLUTION PROBLEMS BY REDUCTION AND ADAPTATION POLICIESby FrankjStahler Novemberl992 <#Abstract: This paper questions the standard results of an international noncooperative reduction game through considering scope effects between reduction and adaptation policies. In particular, it demonstrates that scope effects can result in positively sloped reaction curves. The paper discusses also the role of different conjectures and corner solutions. It concludes that, compared to the well-known standard results, all these effects introduce a good deal of ambiguity surrounding any forecast which is based on purely theoretical grounds.The authors are solely responsible for the contents and distribution of each Kiel Working Paper. Since the series involves manuscripts in a preliminary form, interested readers are requested to direct criticism and suggestions directly to the authors and to clear any quotations with them.

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“…Hoel (1991, p.69) concludes that: "it might not be particularly sensible for an environmental group in a country to try to force its government to unilaterally reduce the countries emissions". Hoel (1991) mentions 'setting a good example' as being the reason for unilateral actions, without explicitly modelling how such a good example could be accomplished. In this paper unilateral actions are re-formulated, not as setting a good example, but rather as transmitting relevant information.…”

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Unilateral actions, the case of international environmental problems

Brandt

2004

Resource and Energy Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may Unilateral actions the case of international environmental problems Urs Steiner Brandt April 2003All rights reserved. No part of this WORKING PAPER may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of IME except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. AbstractWhen abatement costs are uncertain, but correlated, and a country becomes privately informed that costs are low, then unilateral actions serve as a signalling devise to reveal low costs and unilateral actions have the potential to trigger positive responses abroad. However, the country engaging in unilateral actions is the one with the highest expectation about the other countries' reactions, and it might suffer from an effect like the winners curse.JEL Classification: Q28, H4, D8

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Global environmental problems: The effects of unilateral actions taken by one country

Cited by 428 publications

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On the supply of China's healthcare resources in a decentralized healthcare system

On the supply of China's healthcare resources in a decentralized healthcare system

Managing Global Pollution Problems by Reduction and Adaptation Policies

Unilateral actions, the case of international environmental problems

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