&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 …

cooperative effort to control GHG emissions can provide adequate incentives for the US to move back to the Kyoto process and … assesses the participation incentives for the major world countries and regions in these three regimes. …

This paper analyses whether different emissions 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 …

The present stalemate in climate negotiations has led policy analysts and economists to explore the possible emergence … proposed among others by Barrett (2001) and Benedick (2001) is based on the insight that incentives to free-ride are much …, the absence of incentives to free ride) of the coalition that would form when countries negotiate on climate …