Arbeitspapier
Collective minimum contributions to counteract the ratchet effect in the voluntary provision of public goods
We experimentally test a theoretically promising amendment to the ratchet-up mechanism of the Paris Agreement. The ratchet-up mechanism prescribes that parties' commitments to the global response to climate change cannot decrease over time and our results confirm that its effect is detrimental. We design a public goods game to study whether an amendment to the mechanism that stipulates all agents to contribute at least a collective minimum to the public good which is based on the principle of the lowest common denominator promotes cooperation. We find that binding collective minimum contributions improve the effectiveness of the ratchet-up mechanism. Non-binding minimum contributions, in contrast, do not foster cooperation. Our data reveal conditional cooperative dynamics to explain the difference. If other participants contribute less than the collective minimum contributions, even initially cooperative participants start to negatively reciprocate such a form of non-compliance by contributing less.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 22-053
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Noncooperative Games
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Group Behavior
Public Goods
- Thema
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global public goods
climate change
institutions
ratchet-up mechanism
minimum contributions
laboratory experiment
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Alt, Marius
Gallier, Carlo
Kesternich, Martin
Sturm, Bodo
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung
- (wo)
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Mannheim
- (wann)
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2022
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
Datenpartner
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Alt, Marius
- Gallier, Carlo
- Kesternich, Martin
- Sturm, Bodo
- ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung
Entstanden
- 2022
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