Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/117943 
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Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 68.2004
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
Standard non-cooperative game theoretical models of international environmental agreements (IEAs) draw a pessimistic picture of the prospective of successful cooperation: only small coalitions are stable that achieve only little. However, there also exist IEAs with higher participation and more success. In order to explain this phenomenon, this paper departs from the standard assumption of joint welfare maximization of coalition members, implying ambitious abatement targets and strong free-riding. Instead, it considers that countries agree on modest emission reduction targets. This may sufficiently raise participation so that the success of treaties improves in terms of global emission reduction and global welfare. Thus, modesty may pay, though the first best optimum cannot be achieved.
Subjects: 
International environmental agreements
Internal&external stability
Modest emission reduction
JEL: 
C72
H41
Q20
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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