We discuss compliance mechanisms in global climate regimes focusing on both the Kyoto Protocol arrangements and what might follow post-Kyoto. Much of the literature on compliance more generally focuses on severity of penalties and mechanisms for determining compliance in terms of the...

AbstractThis paper uses computational techniques to assess whether or not various propositions that have been advanced as plausible in the literature on regional trade agreements may actually hold. The idea is to make probabilistic statements as to whether propositions of interest might hold,...

We discuss global climate mitigation that builds on existing unilateral measures to cut emissions. We document the extent of these measures and discuss the rationale arguing that such measures have the potential to generate positive spillover effects both within and across countries. We argue...