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Members, Joiners, Free-Riders, Supporters
Ansink, Erik; Withagen, Cees A. - 2016
We augment the standard cartel formation game from non-cooperative coalition theory, often applied in the context of international environmental agreements on climate change, with the possibility that singletons support coalition formation without becoming coalition members themselves. Rather,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451430
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Self-Enforcing Agreements under Unequal Nationally Determined Contributions
Silva, Emilson C.D. - 2016
For a large global economy with normal goods, and an unequal world income distribution, we consider the endogenous formation and stability of an international environmental agreement (IEA) under nationally determined contributions (NDCs). Nations share green R&D efforts and enjoy R&D spillovers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431243
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Strategic Delegation in the Formation of Modest International Environmental Agreements
Spycher, Sarah; Winkler, Ralph - 2021
We reassess the well-known “narrow-but-deep” versus “broad-but-shallow” trade-off in international environmental agreements (IEAs), taking into account the principal-agent relationship induced by the hierarchical structure of international policy. To this end, we expand the modest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314772
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International Environmental Agreements with Uncertainty, Learning and Risk Aversion
Finus, Michael; Pintassilgo, Pedro; Ulph, Alistair - 2014
This paper analyses the formation of international environmental agreements (IEAs) under uncertainty, focusing on the role of learning and risk aversion. It bridges two strands of literature: one focused on the role learning for the success of IEA formation when countries are risk neutral and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333447
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Social Norms, Endogenous Sorting and the Culture of Cooperation
Fehr, Ernst; Williams, Tony - 2018
of universal cooperation because the more prosocial subjects populate the two efficient institutions first, elect … prosocial judges (if institutionally possible), and immediately establish a social norm of high cooperation. This norm appears … to guide subjects’ cooperation and punishment choices, including the virtually complete removal of antisocial punishment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872060
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Strategic Delegation in the Formation of Modest International Environmental Agreements
Spycher, Sarah; Winkler, Ralph - 2020
We reassess the well-known “narrow-but-deep” versus “broad-but-shallow” trade-off in international environmental agreements (IEAs), taking into account the principal-agent relationship induced by the hierarchical structure of international policy. To this end, we expand the modest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425675
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On the Relationship between Adaptation and Mitigation
Winkler, Ralph - 2023
Many poor countries are ill-adapted to the current leave alone a changing future climate, because they lack the necessary financial means to invest in efficient and cost-effective safeguarding measures. International endeavours to fund institutions, such as the Green Climate Fund, to provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290281
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Provision of a public good with altruistic overlapping generations and many tribes
Karp, Larry S. - 2012
Intergenerational altruism and contemporaneous cooperation are both important to the provision of long-lived public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283613
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On the Relationship between Adaptation and Mitigation
Winkler, Ralph - 2023
Many poor countries are ill-adapted to the current leave alone a changing future climate, because they lack the necessary financial means to invest in efficient and cost-effective safeguarding measures. International endeavours to fund institutions, such as the Green Climate Fund, to provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014357812
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The Social Cost of Carbon with Intragenerational Inequality Under Economic Uncertainty
van der Ploeg, Rick; Emmerling, Johannes; Groom, Ben - 2022
A formula is derived for the social cost of carbon (SCC) that takes account of intragenerational income inequality and its evolution with economic growth. The social discount rate (SDR) should be adjusted to account for intragenerational and intergenerational inequality aversion and for risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082790