Étiqueté : Game Theory

Reform of the Coal Sector in an Open Economy: The Case of China

Cheap, abundant and easy to transport and store, coal has been produced and consumed to meet people’s energy needs. The last decade’s growth in global coal use has been driven mainly by  developing economies like China, whose phenomenal economic growth has been powered by coal-fired
electricity and promoted by the export of manufactured goods…

Prospects for Paris 2015: do major emitters want the same climate ?

International negotiations have failed to achieve an ambitious outcome to limit climate risks. A Cournot outcome where countries determine their mitigation commitments in the full knowledge of those by others could be an important step. It would avoid a Stackelberg (leader-follower) outcome where one or more major emitters impose a level of climate risk on the rest of the world…

Domestic politics and the formation of international environmental agreements

The theory of international environmental agreements overwhelmingly assumes that governments engage as unitary agents. Each government makes choices based on benefits and costs that are simple national aggregates, and similarly on a single set of national-level motivations, together drawing a strong analogy with the behaviour of an individual or firm in other strategic contexts…

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