Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/73933
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 98.2005
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
Results derived from empirical analyses on the stability of climate coalitions are usually very sensitive to the large uncertainties associated with the benefits and costs of climate policies. This paper provides the methodology of Stability Likelihood that links uncertainty about benefits and costs of climate change to the stability analysis of coalitions in a stochastic, empirical setting. We show that the concept of Stability Likelihood improves upon the robustness and interpretation of stability analysis. Our numerical application is based on a modified version of the climate model STACO. It turns out that the only non-trivial coalition structure with a relatively high Stability Likelihood (around 25 percent) is a coalition between the European Union and Japan, though quantitative results depend especially on the variance in regional benefits from abatement.
Subjects: 
Climate change
Coalition formation
International environmental agreements
Uncertainty
JEL: 
C79
H87
Q54
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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