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Climate Change and Pandemics: On the Timing of Interventions to Preserve a Global Common

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  • Giovanniello, Monica

    (Universitat de les Illes Balears)

  • Perroni, Carlo

    (University of Warwick and CESifo)

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We characterize timing choices in investments towards the conservation of a global common and derive implications for interventions to contain the spread of a contagious disease.

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  • Giovanniello, Monica & Perroni, Carlo, 2020. "Climate Change and Pandemics: On the Timing of Interventions to Preserve a Global Common," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 467, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
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