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Strategic implications of counter-geoengineering : clash or cooperation
Heyen, Daniel; Horton, Joshua; Moreno Cruz, Juan - 2018
substantial externality on the rest of the world. We analyze whether the threat of counter-geoengineering technologies capable of … international cooperation. Our game-theoretical model of asymmetric countries allows for a rigorous analysis of the strategic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011884418
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Strategic implications of counter-geoengineering : clash or cooperation?
Heyen, Daniel; Horton, Joshua B.; Moreno Cruz, Juan - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012198430
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Members, joiners, free-riders, supporters
Ansink, Erik; Withagen, Cees - 2016
We augment the standard cartel formation game from non-cooperative coalition theory, often applied in the context of international environmental agreements on climate change, with the possibility that singletons support coalition formation without becoming coalition members themselves. Rather,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444079
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Self-enforcing international environmental agreements : adaptation and complementarity
Rubio, Santiago J. - 2018
that the larger the gains of full cooperation, the larger the cooperation. However, in the second case, the unique stable … agreement we find consists of three countries regardless of the gains of full cooperation. These results suggest that … complementarity can play in favor of cooperation but that it is not a sufficient condition to obtain more participation in an emission …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011899731
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Sharing R&D investments in breakthrough technologies to control climate change
Rubio, Santiago J. - 2016
This paper examines international cooperation on technological development as an alternative to international … cooperation on GHG emission reductions. In order to analyze the scope of cooperation, a three-stage technology agreement formation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451142
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Sharing R&D investments in cleaner technologies to mitigate climate change
El-Sayed, Abeer; Rubio, Santiago J. - 2014
This paper examines international cooperation on technological development as an alternative to international … cooperation on GHG emission reductions. It is assumed that when countries cooperate they coordinate their investments so as to … spillover effects of their investments in R&D. In order to analyze the scope of cooperation, an agreement formation game is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344228
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Social motives in intergroup conflict
Weisel, Ori; Zultan, Ro'i - 2013
We experimentally test the social motives behind individual participation in intergroup conflict by manipulating the framing and symmetry of conflict. We find that behavior in conflict depends on whether one is harmed by actions perpetrated by the out-group, but not on one’s own influence on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792169
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Separation of powers, political competition and efficient provision of public goods
Boukouras, Aristotelis; Koufopoulos, Kostas - 2011 - This Version: 03 September 2010, First Version: 28 September 2007
In this paper we provide a political game where agents decide whether to become legislators or politicians. Legislators determine the political institutions constraining politicians' behavior and politicians compete for gaining the power to make decisions about the level of the public good. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343846
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Self-enforcing agreements under unequal nationally determined contributions
Silva, Emilson C. D. - 2016
For a large global economy with normal goods, and an unequal world income distribution, we consider the endogenous formation and stability of an international environmental agreement (IEA) under nationally determined contributions (NDCs). Nations share green R&D efforts and enjoy R&D spillovers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415922
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From fossil fuels to renewables : studies on the effects of resource endowments and climate policy on economic outcomes
Montoya Gómez, Ana Maria - 2020
This doctoral thesis, organized in three self-contained chapters, provides an analysis of the economic effects associated with the extraction of natural resources and the transition from an economy based on fossil fuel use to an economy relying primarily on renewable energy sources. Chapter 1...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262529