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10. Flashcards

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What is an externality?

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How do we establish social order
How does the market system relate to social order?
How do public goods and externalities relate to social order?

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Define
* Social contract
* Hobbesian tradition

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What is a consumption externality

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5
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First theorem of Wlefare economics

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What happens to the general equilibrium when there is an externality?

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What has changed in the general equilibrium?

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General equilibrium with externality

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9
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What is the first welfare thereorem?
Why is no externalities required for first welfare therom to hold?

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What is coase Theorem?

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coase Theorem and property rights

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What are the properties of public goods

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What is the:
* perfect subsitue case
* Perfect complement case

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15
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Canonical example:
Assumptions
What is the meaning of the sign?

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Application of public goods: Security/ Defence
* What is the issue?
* How can this be provided as a public good to solve the issue?
* What do G and γ mean?

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Application of public goods: Climate change
* What is the issue?
* How can this be provided as a public good to solve the issue?
* What do G and γ mean?

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What happens in a Nash equilibrium?

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20
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What are the incentives to contribute?
What sort of function is this?
What is the equation?

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22
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What is the dominant stratergy?

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23
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What are the implications of this?
What is the range of the benefit of public good?

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24
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Assurance game
What is the utility equation?

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27
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Assurnace game on the population level
When should we invest and when should we not (equatiojns?)

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28
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What are the solutions to the free-rider problem?

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29
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Lin Ostrom’s work

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30
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What is voluntary cooperation?

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31
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Is self-interest a reasonable assumption?

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32
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The game when there is a reciprocals

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33
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Do penalties work in practice?

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34
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What is the role of the government?

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35
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Government reprecutions measures

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36
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Government subsidisation

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37
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Direct Government provision

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38
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Chan et al (2018)
Why is international cooperation required to tackle climate change?

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  • Countries can free-ride on the actions of others so we have international cooperations
  • Able to address emission sources that are unevenly distributed
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Chan et al (2018)
What criteria can we use to evaluate international climate policy?

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  • Environmental effectiveness: To what degree do they reduce climate change?
  • Aggregate economic performance: Cost-effectiveness
  • Distributional impacts: Benefits and costs for everyone overtime
  • Institutional feasibility: Ability for the parites in the agreement to implement effort
40
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Chan et al (2018)
What aspects are important in the design of international climate policy?

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  • Strong multilateralism: High degree of coordination of goals or action among participants
  • Harmonized antional policies: Cooperation to make the design and ambition of national polcies similar to one another relying less of a centralised authority
  • Decentralised policies: Composed topically focused building blocks
  • Legal framework: Legal type, whether commitment is mandatory, the specifcity of commitments and the use of enforcement provisions.
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Chan et al (2018)
Summarise the features and objectives of the 2015 Paris Agreement? Has it been effective? Is it sufficient?

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  • 10 year national goals for climitae mitigation
  • Countries have to submit revised NCDs every 5 years
  • Bottom up nature
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Altundas et al (2021)
Can market forces help reinforce the objectives of international agreements through, for example, the financial sector?

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  • Banking sector is lending away from polluting firms, as they expect more stringent climate risk-related policies, or increased awarness by banks of climate change related risks.
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Income distribution

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