Global union federations and international framework agreements: Knowledge exchange and creation

Incentives, Knowledge Creation and Inter-organisation Cooperative Agreements

International Environmental Agreements: Is Global Cooperation Possible?

The negotiation and ratification of the Kyoto Protocol has spawned a body of literature aimed at analyzing the formation of international environmental coalitions. This literature suggests that in equilibrium environmental agreements will have only a small number of signatories. As of April 2007, however, 168 countries have ratified the protocol; thirty-five of which have binding emissions redu...

Representation of knowledge production of leadership and educational management in international specialized journals and global databases

Objective: The aim of this study was to identify knowledge production of leadership and educational management of the faculty members of the educational management departments of Iranian public universities in international specialized journals and Web of science and Scopus databases. Materials and Methods: A comprehensive search without time limit was conducted in 8 international specialized j...

International Emission Trade and Voluntary Global Warming Agreements

We evaluate the prospect of forming voluntary global warming agreements in which membership entitles a country to trade emission permits with other member states. To do so, we construct a calibrated general equilibriummodel that jointly describes the world economy and the strategic incentives that guide the design of national abatement policies. Countries choose their initial permit endowments ...

International Environment Agreements and the Case of Global Warming

First, this article uses standard welfare economics to illustrate the market failure and policy coordination problems caused by transboundary pollution problems in general and global warming in particular. Secondly, a brief overview is given of the main results obtained by empirical modelling exercises that combine both cost and damage estimates for global warming. Thirdly, the theoretical conc...