All pages with keywords: cooperation

Alessandro Tavoni

Tipping and reference points in climate change games

a working paper by Alessandro Tavoni, Doruk İriş 20 May, 2016

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

A minilateral solution for global climate change? On bargaining efficiency, club benefits and international legitimacy

a working paper by Robert Falkner 2 July, 2015

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

Delegation and public pressure in a threshold public goods game: theory and experimental evidence

a working paper by Alessandro Tavoni, Jungmin Lee, Doruk İriş 20 March, 2015

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

Luring others into climate action: Coalition formation games with threshold and spillover effects

a working paper by Alessandro Tavoni, Valentina Bosetti, Melanie Heugues 13 January, 2015

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

Robustness of norm-driven cooperation in the commons to environmental variability

a working paper by Alessandro Tavoni, Maja Schlüter, Simon Levin 1 January, 2014

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

Economic instruments for climate change

a research article by Cameron Hepburn 21 March, 2013

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

The survival of the conformist: social pressure and renewable resource management

a research article by Alessandro Tavoni 20 April, 2012

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

On cooperation

a research article by Tom McDermott 6 September, 2011

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

The survival of the conformist: social pressure and renewable resource management

a working paper by Alessandro Tavoni 1 January, 2011

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 »