Buch, Englisch, Band 416, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 376 g
Economics Essays on the Comedy and Tragedy of the Commons
Buch, Englisch, Band 416, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 376 g
Reihe: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems
ISBN: 978-3-540-58220-5
Verlag: Springer
This book is the result of a four years' research project at the European Uni versity Institute in Florence, Italy. I am grateful to my supervisor, Mark Salmon, for his many ideas. I am also indebted to my co-supervisor, Aart de Zeeuw, for his and Alister Ulph. unfailing support and to Carlo Carraro, Louis Phlips I gratefully acknowledge the help and assistance of many people that advised at some stage, Scott Barrett, Peter Bohm, Lans Bovenberg, Partha Dasgupta, me Klaus Hasselman, Peter Kort, alIi Tahvonen, Cees Withagen and Clifford Wymer. Thanks also to the faculty and students of the Department of Economics of the European University Institute and especially to Jacqueline, Jessica, Marcia and Barbara for their moral support; my Italian teacher Camilla; my 'Gruppo di Lavoro' Tilman, Peter and Luisa; my dear Dutch friends Yvo, Pieter, Ida and Ellen; international friends Bogdan, Stuart, Melanie, Henning, Anantha, Paolo, Pompeo, Nikos, Christian, Analisa, Dorothea, Valeria and Stefani a; the members of the Working Group of Environmental Studies; and finally my girlfriends who gave up on me because they thought I was working too hard and not spending enough time with them. Also many thanks to my landlady Olga, who taught me the beauty of Italian literature and opera and my landlord Emilio and their dog Igor. I am also greatly indebted to Professor Larry Susskind and to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where I spent an extremely inspiring semester.
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1 Introduction and Conclusions.- 2 Literature Review.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 The Greenhouse Effect.- 2.3 Environmental Resource Models.- 2.4 The International Dimension.- 2.5 Summary and Conclusion.- 3 Sustainability, Emission Reduction Technology and Human Capital.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 The Rudimentary Model.- 3.3 Energy Related Capital.- 3.4 Human Capital Accumulation.- 3.5 Summary and Conclusions.- 4 Multi Country Modelling of the Greenhouse Effect.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Differential Game Theory.- 4.3 Energy-Related Capital in a Multi-Country Model.- 4.4 Self-Enforcing International Cooperation.- 4.5 Renegotiation Proofness.- 4.6 Summary and Conclusions.- 5 Cooperation in a Second-Best World: Technology Transfers and Issue Linkage.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 International Cooperation and Technology Transfers.- 5.3 Issue Linkage in International Environmental Problems.- 5.4 Summary and Conclusions.- A.- A.l Local Stability Analysis for Section 3.3.1.- A.2 Local Stability Analysis for Section 3.4.1.- B.- B.l Routine to Calculate Riccati Coefficients.- B.2 Example Worked Out.- B.3 Linear-Quadratic Case Worked Out.- B.4 Open-Loop Case.- B.5 Closed-Loop Case.- B.6 ParetoCase.- B.7 Comparison of the Open-loop, Feedback and Cooperative Case.- B.8 Renegotiation Proofness.- B.9 Specification of the Discrete Time Example.- C.- C.l Description of Feedback Solution.- C.2 Proof of Theorems on Linkage.- Literature.- List of Figures.- List of Tables.
