&D cooperation. This paper explores this idea by analysing on the one hand the incentives for EU, Japan and Russia to adopt this … strategy, and on the other hand the incentives for the US to join a coalition which cooperates both on climate change control … and R&D) will be examined from the view point of countries profitability and free-riding incentives. Finally, after having …

&D cooperation. This paper explores this idea by analysing on the one hand the incentives for EU, Japan and Russia to adopt this … strategy, and on the other hand the incentives for the US to join a coalition which cooperates both on climate change control … and R&D) will be examined from the view point of countries' profitability and free-riding incentives. Finally, after …

, Schuknecht and Tanzi (2003). Our regressions show that what really matters to social incentives is the relation between size and … efficiency. Specifically, while a larger size of government is bad for incentives when one ignores efficiency, the results change …, larger public sectors are bad for incentives. By contrast, when efficiency exceeds size, larger public sectors are not bad …