cooperation

Building on a large body of theoretical and experimental literature, the authors of this paper hypothesize that trust shared in a society may positively affect global cooperative behavior. Read more

Many public goods cannot be provided directly by interested parties (e.g. citizens), as they entail decision-making at nested hierarchical scales:... Read more

Climate change is a global externality that has proven difficult to address through formal institutions alone due to the public... Read more

What affects how compliant businesses are with environmental regulations? Traditional enforcement measures such as fines and inspections by authorities can... Read more

This paper uses data on the compliance of installations regulated under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme to investigate how the levels of trust in a country affect the compliance of firms with regulations on climate change. Read more

This paper finds that the culture of cooperation sustained by trust within a country positively affects international cooperative behaviour, showing that an increase in trust between citizens results in larger cuts in carbon dioxide emissions. Read more

A previous draft of this report was published as a background paper submission to the China Development Forum 2017. An... Read more

Headline issue China is taking an active leadership role in a new global agenda that has sustainable infrastructure at its... Read more

Abstract We explore the prospects of cooperation in a threshold public bad game. The experiment’s setup allows us to investigate... Read more