Challenging conventional wisdom: Experimental evidence on heterogeneity and coordination in avoiding a collective catastrophic event

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Avoiding a catastrophic climate change event is a global public good characterized by several dimensions, notably heterogeneity between the parties involved. It is often argued that such heterogeneity between countries is a major obstacle to cooperative climate policy. We challenge this belief by experimentally simulating two important heterogeneities, in wealth and loss, when dangerous climate change occurs. We find that under loss heterogeneity the success rate in achieving sufficient mitigation to prevent catastrophic climate change is higher than with homogeneous parties. We also observe that neither endowment heterogeneity nor the combination of endowment and loss heterogeneities lead to significantly different success rates than with homogeneous parties. Our findings suggest that heterogeneities may facilitate rather than hinder successful international climate policy negotiations.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: KCG Working Paper ; No. 19

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Group Behavior ; Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions ; Public Goods ; Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming
• Thema: global public good ; change negotiation ; collective-risk social dilemma ; endowmentheterogeneity ; loss heterogeneity ; focal point

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Waichman, Israel ; Requate, Tilman ; Karde, Markus ; Milinski, Manfred
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Kiel Centre for Globalization (KCG)
• (wo): Kiel
• (wann): 2019

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/205134
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ