Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/61034 
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Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3895
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Intergenerational altruism and contemporaneous cooperation are both important to the provision of long-lived public goods. Equilibrium climate protection may depend more sensitively on either of these considerations, depending on the type of policy rule one examines. This conclusion is based on a model with n tribes, each with a sequence of overlapping generations. Tribal members discount their and their descendants' utility at different rates. Agents in the resulting game are indexed by tribal affiliation and the time at which they act. The Markov Perfect equilibrium is found by solving a control problem with a constant discount rate and an endogenous annuity.
Subjects: 
overlapping generations
altruism
time consistency
Markov Perfection
differential games
climate policy
JEL: 
C73
D62
D63
D64
H41
Q54
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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