Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/113734 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 5402
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper studies the formation of self-enforcing global environmental agreements in a world economy with international trade and two groups of countries that differ with respect to fuel demand and environmental damage. It investigates whether the signatories’ threat to embargo (potential) free riders secures all countries’ participation in the agreement. Resorting to numerical analysis, we find that an embargo may be unnecessary, ineffective or even counterproductive - depending on the degree of asymmetry and other parameters. On some subset of parameters, the embargo stabilizes the otherwise unstable global agreement, but the threat of embargo is not credible. However, in some of these cases credibility can be restored by suitable intra-coalition transfers.
Subjects: 
embargo
trade
asymmetry
free rider
fuel demand
climate damage
JEL: 
F18
Q50
Q58
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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