Defining global public goods / Inge Kaul, Isabelle Grunberg, and Marc A. Stern -- Intergenerational public goods: strategies, efficiency, and institutions / Todd Sandler -- The political economy of international cooperation / Lisa L. Martin -- Equity in a global public goods framework / J. Mohan...

The studies cover topics in the conceptualization, classification and stratification of public goods. Also examined are public institutional design, global economic institutions and partnership typologies. Individual papers address the financing, regulatory, organizational and legal aspects...

This paper considers investments in cost-reducing technology in the context of contributions to climate protection. Contributions to mitigating climate change are analyzed in a two-period model where later contributions can be based on better information, but delaying the contribution to the...

This paper shows how conflicting normative views of fair contribution rules can be used to design sequential contribution mechanisms to foster human cooperation in heterogeneous populations. Our model predicts that a sequential mechanism which solicits contributions first from wealthy actors...