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First, the paper lays out the fun-damental assumptions underlying the game theoretical analysis of international environmental problems. Second it summarises important findings which help to explain the difficulties of co-operation and discusses remedies. Chapter 3 looks at measures to avoid...
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of an international climate agreement. Although there are strong free-rider incentives, we find a stable grand coalition …
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Almost all international environmental agreements include a minimum participation rule. Under such a rule an agreement becomes legally binding if and only if a certain threshold in terms of membership or contribution is reached. We analyze a cartel game with open membership and heterogeneous...
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We extend the work on coalition formation in global pollution control by allowing for multiple coalitions. Equilibrium …
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coalition, and regions which have the highest claims according to the respective sharing rule. Furthermore, we find that a … grandfathering scheme leads to the largest and - in terms of greenhouse gas abatement - most successful coalition, while many of the …
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We analyze with an integrated assessment model of climate change the formation of interna-tional environmental agreements (IEAs) by applying the widely used concept of inter-nal & external stability and several modifications of it. We relax the assumptions of a single agreement and open...
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The aim of this paper is to discuss the role played by international institutions in achieving effective International Environmental Agreements. We emphasise the strategic nature of environmental negotiations and use a game theoretic model of coalitional bargaining to illustrate the main issues....
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international agreement on climate change control. The stable coalition structure of the game is defined and then computed for a … climate game in which the role of carbon leakage is also taken into account. At the equilibrium, a coalition may emerge … despite the public good nature of climate. The size of the coalition depends on the degree of interdependence of countries …
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control are analysed. A non-cooperative approach to coalition formation is used to analyse profitability and stability of the … countries, carbon leakage reduces the size of the equilibrium coalition and even the likelihood of a successful negotiation. On …
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Global public good provision (e.g. environmental quality) confronts us with problems demanding both national and international co-operation. However among sovereign nations reaching agreement on mutual public good provision is difficult. Slowing down global warming is just one example. Due to...
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