&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 … and R&D) will be examined from the view point of countries profitability and free-riding incentives. Finally, after having …

We investigate whether the decision to experiment with novel policies is influenced by electoral incentives. Our …. We find that electoral incentives matter: governors with strong electoral support are less likely to experiment with … striving for reelection. The importance of electoral incentives is robust to controlling for governor ideology, voter …