An Institutional Perspective on Climate Change, Markets, and Consumption across Three Countries

Constructing a Climate Change Logic: An Institutional Perspective on the "Tragedy of the Commons"

Despite increasing interest in transnational fields, transnational commons have received little attention. In contrast to economic models of commons, which argue that commons occur naturally and are prone to collective inaction and tragedy, we introduce a social constructionist account of commons. Specifically, we show that actor-level frame changes can eventually lead to the emergence of an ov...

CLIMATE CHANGE. Climate change impacts on bumblebees converge across continents.

For many species, geographical ranges are expanding toward the poles in response to climate change, while remaining stable along range edges nearest the equator. Using long-term observations across Europe and North America over 110 years, we tested for climate change-related range shifts in bumblebee species across the full extents of their latitudinal and thermal limits and movements along ele...

Impact of Climate Change on Arab Countries

Economic, Demographic, and Institutional Determinants of Life Insurance Consumption across Countries

Life insurance has become an increasingly important component of the financial sector over the last 40 years by providing a variety of financial services for consumers and becoming a major source of investment in the capital market. What drives the large variance in life insurance consumption across countries, however, is still unclear. Using a panel with data aggregated at different frequencie...

Institutional Quality and Curse Resources: An Experimental Study on OPEC Countries

This paper is to study the resource curse applying annual data from 2002 to 2016 for the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) members i.e. Algeria, Iran, Kuwait, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Venezuela. For this purpose, there were concerned the interactions role of resource abundance and institution quality, and their marginal effect of the countrie...