<Para ID="Par1">Recent Conferences of the UNFCCC Parties (COP) emphasized international technology funding as a means of achieving carbon emissions reductions in developing countries. Such funds are now being realized. Nonetheless, this paper is possibly the first theory-based discussion of international...</para>

Recent Conferences of the UNFCCC Parties (COP) emphasized international technology funding as a means of achieving carbon emissions reductions in developing countries. Such funds are now being realized. Nonetheless, this paper is possibly the first theory-based discussion of international...

In this paper, we develop a general equilibrium endogenous growth model that emphasizes the IPR enforcement effects on growth, in a scenario of north–south technological knowledge diffusion. The economy consists of three sectors, and firms are engaged in step-by-step innovation. In line with...

In the present work, agreement on allocation of payments from multiple issues requires unanimous consent of all parties involved. The agents are assumed to know the aggregate payoffs but do not know their decomposition by issues. This framework applies to many real-world problems, such as the...

Like individuals facing common-pool resource problems, states search for ways to solve collective-action problems in the international system without turning to external enforcement. Heterogeneity of power and of preference intensities may enhance the probability of cooperation, if states are...

In the context of bilateral bargaining, we deal with issue linkage by developing a two-issue cooperative bargaining model. In contrast to the traditional Nash bargaining literature, the axioms we propose focus on the role of the disagreement points. We characterize a new solution that we call...