Many public goods cannot be provided directly by interested parties (e.g. citizens), as they entail decision-making at nested hierarchical scales:... Read more
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Climate change is a global externality that has proven difficult to address through formal institutions alone due to the public... Read more
What affects how compliant businesses are with environmental regulations? Traditional enforcement measures such as fines and inspections by authorities can... Read more
This paper uses data on the compliance of installations regulated under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme to investigate how the levels of trust in a country affect the compliance of firms with regulations on climate change. Read more
This paper finds that the culture of cooperation sustained by trust within a country positively affects international cooperative behaviour, showing that an increase in trust between citizens results in larger cuts in carbon dioxide emissions. Read more
A previous draft of this report was published as a background paper submission to the China Development Forum 2017. An... Read more
Headline issue China is taking an active leadership role in a new global agenda that has sustainable infrastructure at its... Read more
Abstract We explore the prospects of cooperation in a threshold public bad game. The experiment’s setup allows us to investigate... Read more
This paper surveys the existing empirical evidence on the scope for cooperation in the climate commons and on the effectiveness... Read more
We live in a world characterized by discontinuities, where thresholds for abrupt and irreversible change are omnipresent, both in economic... Read more
