This paper examines how cooperation in an insurance game depends on risk preferences and the riskiness of income. It … of the discount factor above which perfect risk sharing is self-enforcing. When agents face no aggregate risk, there is … of idiosyncratic and aggregate risk. In the case of exponential (isoelastic) utility, cooperation depends positively on …

Risk of stock collapse is a genuine motivation for cooperative fisheries management. We analyse the effect of an … endogenously determined risk of stock collapse on the incentives to cooperate in a Great Fish War model. We establish that … offset the increased benefits from cooperation due to the presence of endogenous risk and the Great Fish Pact returns to …

We consider the effect of an increase in the risk from pollution. We show that in the case of a flow pollution, when … the number of players is sufficiently large, the result of Bramoulle and Treich, showing that a marginal increase of risk … in the neighborhood of a risk-free world is welfare-improving, holds even when we consider non-marginal increases in risk …

increases the risk of the game, making cooperative action through a social planner more urgent. Asymmetric damages or asymmetric …