All pages with keywords: cooperation

Tipping and reference points in climate change games
We live in a world characterized by discontinuities, where thresholds for abrupt and irreversible change are omnipresent, both in economic and ecological dynamics. Such thresholds, often referred to as tipping … read more »

A minilateral solution for global climate change? On bargaining efficiency, club benefits and international legitimacy
This paper by Rober Falkner explores the the potential role that climate clubs might play in promoting global climate action. read more »

Delegation and public pressure in a threshold public goods game: theory and experimental evidence
The provision of global public goods, such as climate change mitigation and managing fisheries to avoid overharvesting, requires the coordination of national contributions. read more »

Luring others into climate action: Coalition formation games with threshold and spillover effects
Cooperation between countries is required to overcome major societal problems, such as climate change. However, rational logic dictates that individual countries are incentivised not to act, instead preferring to … read more »

Robustness of norm-driven cooperation in the commons to environmental variability
Growing empirical evidence points to the importance of social norms for achieving sustainable use of common pool resources (CPR). Social norms can facilitate the cooperation and … read more »

Economic instruments for climate change
Reference Meckling, J., and Hepburn, C. 2013. Economic instruments for climate change. In: The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy (Falkner, R. [ed.]). Wiley-Blackwell.

The survival of the conformist: social pressure and renewable resource management
This paper examines the role of other-regarding behavior as a mechanism for the establishment and maintenance of cooperation in resource use under variable social and environmental conditions. By coupling … read more »

On cooperation
In this essay I discuss the role of cooperation in the process of innovation. I argue for a reorientation of the way we conceptualize economic behavior, taking account of … read more »

The survival of the conformist: social pressure and renewable resource management
This paper examines the role of other-regarding behavior as a mechanism for the establishment and maintenance of cooperation in resource use under variable social and environmental … read more »
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