TY  - GEN
AB  - Increasing concerns about climate change have given rise to the formation of International Environmental Agreements (IEAs) as a possible solution to limit global
pollution effects. In this paper, we study the stability of IEAs in a repeated game framework where we restrict to strategies which are simple and invariant to renegotiation.
Our main contribution to the literature on IEAs is that we allow for heterogeneous patterns of pollution such that additional to a global effect of pollution there are local pollution effects represented by a network structure. We show that stable IEAs exist if the network structure is balanced. Too large asymmetries in the degree of local spillovers may however lead to non-existence of stable structures.
The generality of our approach allows for several applications to general problems in the provision of public goods.
DA  - 2015
KW  - Weak renegotiation-proofness
KW  - Coalition structures
KW  - International environmental agreements
KW  - Networks
LA  - eng
PY  - 2015
SN  - 0931-6558
SP  - 40-
TI  - Local and Global Pollution and International Environmental Agreements in a Network Approach
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-27722901
Y2  - 2024-11-22T03:08:51
ER  -