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The Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change - The Case of Germany
Dannenberg, Astrid; Mennel, Tim; Osberghaus, Daniel; … - 2018
Adaptation to climate change is becoming increasingly important in the political and scientific debate. The reason for this is that climate change impacts are visible already today and will intensify in the next decades. Furthermore, the prospects for an effective international agreement on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014202087
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The economics of adaptation to climate change : the case of Germany
Dannenberg, Astrid; Mennel, Tim; Osberghaus, Daniel; … - 2009
Given the ubiquitous scarcity of resources an economic approach is necessary in order to determine an optimal strategy of adaptation to climate change. In this paper we develop an economic framework for the study of adaptation which allows us to distinguish between decentralized adaptation by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003881582
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Negotiating to avoid "gradual" versus "dangerous" climate change : an experimental test of two prisoners' dilemmas
Barrett, Scott; Dannenberg, Astrid - 2014
According to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, global collective action is needed to stabilize "greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous [our emphasis] anthropogenic interference with the climate system." The Framework Convention thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229864
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Voting on the threat of exclusion in a public goods experiment
Dannenberg, Astrid; Haita-Falah, Corina; Zitzelsberger, … - 2019
Ostracism is practiced by virtually all societies around the world as a means of enforcing cooperation and excluding … contributors are excluded but also because high contributors sustain a higher cooperation level under the exclusion institution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992304
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Identification of individuals and groups in a public goods experiment
Christens, Sven; Dannenberg, Astrid; Sachs, Florian - 2017
Revealing the identities of contributors has been shown to increase cooperation in public goods games. In this paper we … computer chat. The results confirm the positive effect of identification on cooperation among individuals. For groups, however …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011773441
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The choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems : a survey of experimental research
Dannenberg, Astrid; Gallier, Carlo - 2019
A growing experimental literature studies the endogenous choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems arising … of institutional choice. Almost all institutions improve cooperation if they are implemented, but they are not always … identified as important determinants of institutional choice. Cooperation tends to be higher under endogenously chosen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010446
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The choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems : a survey of experimental research
Dannenberg, Astrid; Gallier, Carlo - 2019
A growing experimental literature studies the endogenous choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems arising … of institutional choice. Almost all institutions improve cooperation if they are implemented, but they are not always … identified as important determinants of institutional choice. Cooperation tends to be higher under endogenously chosen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010646
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The demand for punishment to promote cooperation among like-minded people
Bühren, Christoph; Dannenberg, Astrid - 2020
We use an experiment to test the hypothesis that groups consisting of like-minded cooperators are able to cooperate irrespective of punishment and therefore have a lower demand for a costly punishment institution than groups of like-minded free riders, who are unable to cooperate without...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012542999
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The demand for punishment to promote cooperation among like-minded people
Bühren, Christoph; Dannenberg, Astrid - 2021
We use an experiment to test the hypothesis that groups consisting of like-minded cooperators are able to cooperate irrespective of punishment and therefore have a lower demand for a costly punishment institution than groups of like-minded free riders, who are unable to cooperate without...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013337734
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The Effect of Nonbinding Agreements on Cooperation Among Forest User Groups in Nepal and Ethiopia
Dannenberg, Astrid - 2017
cooperation. Unlike previous studies, this experimental study was conducted among members of forest user groups in Ethiopia and …. Overall, the results show a weak effect of nonbinding agreements on cooperation in the two locations. The main reason for this … is that the cooperation level is relatively high even without an agreement and only a small proportion of subjects change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971538