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Sticks and carrots for the design of international climate agreements with renegotiations
Weikard, Hans-Peter; Dellink, Rob B. - 2008
This paper examines stability of international climate agreements for carbon abatement under an optimal transfer rule and renegotiations. The optimal transfer rule suggested to stabilise international environmental agreements (Weikard 2005, Carraro, Eyckmans and Finus 2006) is no longer optimal...
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Farsightedness and Cautiousness in Coalition Formation
Mauleon, Ana; Vannetelbosch, Vincent - 2003
, based on the assumption that players are cautious. For games with positive spillovers, many coalition structures may belong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325075
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Cartel Stability under an Optimal Sharing Rule
Weikard, Hans-Peter - 2005
players and spillovers to non-members. I introduce a sharing rule for coalition payoffs, called optimal sharing which … cartel if spillovers are negative. I introduce a new property, called non-essentiality and determine the set of stable … cartels under optimal sharing if spillovers are positive and if the non-essentiality property applies. Finally I analyse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312346
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Technology Spillovers and Stability of International Climate Coalitions
Nagashima, Miyuki; Dellink, Rob - 2007
investigate stability of partial climate coalitions. Technology spillovers to coalition members increase their incentives to stay … theories on the impact of technology spillovers are evaluated by simulating a range of alternative specifications. We find that … while spillovers are a good instrument to improve stability of bilateral agreements, they cannot overcome the strong free …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312496
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The optimal climate policy portfolio when knowledge spills across sectors
Massetti, Emanuele; Nicita, Lea - 2010
spillovers between the energy and the non-energy sector, we show that the combination between environmental and knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272497
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Under-connected and over-connected networks
Hellmann, Tim; Buechel, Berno - 2009
Since the seminal contribution of Jackson & Wolinsky 1996 [A Strategic Model of Social and Economic Networks, JET 71, 44-74] it has been widely acknowledged that the formation of social networks exhibits a general conflict between individual strategic behavior and collective outcome. What has...
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Strategic R&D cooperatives
Hinloopen, Jeroen - 1998
Allowing firms to cooperate in their R&D is an industrial policy, which has received much attention in recent economics literature. Many of these contributions are based on the seminal analysis of d'Aspremont and Jacquemin (1988). We provide a general version of their model, which encompasses...
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What really happened in The Hague?
Buchner, Barbara - 2001
This paper investigates the occurrences at the Sixth Conference of the Parties to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which took place in The Hague, The Netherlands, from the 13th to 25th November of 2000. Since the conference did not reach an agreement there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608800
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Limits to climate change
Chander, Parkash; Tulkens, Henry - 2001
The paper proves the existence and uniqueness of a noncooperative steady state in the context of a model of climate change. It also explores the possibility of cooperation and attainment of an optimal steady state. It is shown that the problem is similar to that in the static model (Chander and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608804
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North-South Climate Change Negotiations: a Sequential Game with Asymmetric Information
Caparrós, Alejandro; Pereau, Jean-Christophe; … - 2003
This article determines the conditions under which the Southern countries should act together, or separately, while negotiating with the North about climate change policy and about the conditions for future Southern engagement. The paper models the international negotiations with complete and...
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