negotiations, its increased bargaining power and its eventual incentives to follow the US defections. …

This Paper analyses the relationship between different equity rules and the incentives to sign and ratify a climate … the incentives for more countries – particularly big emitters – to accept an emission reduction scheme defined within an … be derived from the recent outcomes of climate negotiations. Even though an equitable sharing of the costs of controlling …

crucial to prioritise participation incentives for all countries, especially those without explicit or with insufficient … abatement targets. This paper offers a bottom-up game-theoretic perspective on participation incentives. Rather than focusing on … issue linkage, transfers or burden sharing as tools to enhance the incentives to participate in a climate agreement, this …

This Paper examines recent theoretical developments in the theory of coalition stability. It focuses on the … relationship between the incentives to defect from a coalition, the size of the resulting equilibrium coalition structure and the …

and in actual policymaking, is to link negotiations on climate change control with decisions concerning international R …&D cooperation. This Paper explores this idea by analysing on the one hand the incentives for EU, Japan and Russia to adopt this … strategy, and on the other hand the incentives for the US to join a coalition which cooperates both on climate change control …

This Paper analyses whether different emission trading regimes provide different incentives to participate in a … designing the emission-trading regime, it is possible to enhance the incentives to participate in a climate agreement. Therefore …

Public agencies rely on two key modes to procure goods and services: auctions and direct negotiations. The relative … passenger railway services in Germany, where regional agencies can use auctions and negotiations to procure regional passenger … legal framework. We first characterize the decisions of the agency in a simple reduced form framework of negotiations and …

-offer negotiations to a model schedule approach that sets ambitious objectives - ideally full national treatment for the major backbone …

: the stakes are substantial, there are no restrictions on the negotiations or the terms of a deal, outside options are …

post. We show that this is achieved by bilateral negotiations but not by auctions. Negotiations strictly outperforms … if the buyer's bargaining position is sufficiently strong. Moreover, we show that negotiations provide stronger … incentives for sellers to investigate possible design improvements than auctions. This provides an explanation for the widespread …