Corruption and climate change policies: do the bad old days matter?
Fredriksson, P. G. & Neumayer, E.
(2016).
Corruption and climate change policies: do the bad old days matter?
Environmental and Resource Economics,
63(2), 451-469.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-014-9869-6
(2016).
Corruption and climate change policies: do the bad old days matter?
Environmental and Resource Economics,
63(2), 451-469.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-014-9869-6
We study the effect of countries’ historical legacy with corruption on recent climate change policies and on global cooperation. Current policy outcomes build on policy choices made in previous years, and these choices were likely affected by the degree of corruption at the time. Our empirical findings using data for up to 131 countries suggest that accumulated historical experience with corruption is important for today’s policy outcomes, and appears to be more important than the current level of corruption.
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- GE Environmental Sciences
- GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography
- HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
- JF Political institutions (General)
- H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
- H23 - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
- H4 - Publicly Provided Goods
- Q54 - Climate; Natural Disasters
- Q58 - Government Policy
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Neumayer, E.
(2018).
Replication Data for: Corruption and Climate Change Policies: Do the Bad Old Days Matter? (with Per Fredriksson), Environmental and Resource Economics, 63 (2), 2016, pp. 451-469.
[Dataset]. Harvard Dataverse.
https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/8cf3vw