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Applied Economics Faculty Publications

1999

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Winners And Losers In A World With Global Warming: Noncooperation, Altruism, And Social Welfare, Arthur J. Caplan, Christopher J. Ellis, Emilson C. D. Silva May 1999

Winners And Losers In A World With Global Warming: Noncooperation, Altruism, And Social Welfare, Arthur J. Caplan, Christopher J. Ellis, Emilson C. D. Silva

Applied Economics Faculty Publications

In this paper, global warming is an asymmetric transboundary externality which benefits some countries or regions and harms others. We use a simple two-country model to analyze the effects of global warming on resource allocations, the global-warming stock, and national and global welfare.