Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/155063 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 9. 2000
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
This paper focuses on the link between the group co-operation and the unilateral commitment behaviour of some countries in the presence of global environmental problems. As we consider that this last behaviour occurs when bargaining failed, we call it a precautious commitment. We also show that the emergence of a non-coordinate global co-operation can result from a strategic action from the members of the coalition. The insiders of the coalition create an incentive for the non-members to reduce without co-ordination their emissions. Finally, when we introduce an environmental tax prescribed by the co-operating countries to the non-co-operating ones, co-operation becomes global and co-ordinate.
Subjects: 
Global environmental problems
coalition
unilateral commitment
Nash equilibrium
environmental tax
JEL: 
D74
Q28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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