Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/76776 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 11-06
Publisher: 
University of Bern, Department of Economics, Bern
Abstract: 
We analyze non-cooperative international climate policy in a setting of political competition by national interest groups. In the first stage, countries decide whether to set up an international emission permits market, which only forms if it is supported by all countries. In the second stage, countries non-cooperatively decide on the number of tradable or non-tradable emission allowances, depending on the type of regime. In both stages, special interest groups try to sway the government in their favor. We find that (i) both the choice of regime and the level of aggregate emissions only depend on the aggregate levels of organized stakes in all countries and not on their distribution among individual interest groups, and (ii) an increase in lobbying influence by a particular lobby group may backfire by inducing a change towards the less preferred regime.
Subjects: 
non-cooperative climate policy
political economy
emissions trading
organization of interest groups
environmental awareness
JEL: 
D72
H23
H41
Q58
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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