Arbeitspapier

Policies and Instruments for Self-Enforcing Treaties

We characterize the optimal policy and policy instruments for self-enforcing treaties when countries invest in green technology before they pollute. If the discount factor is too small to support the first best, then both emissions and investments will be larger than in the first best, when technology is expensive. When technology is inexpensive, countries must instead limit or tax green investment in order to make future punishment credible. We also uncover a novel advantage of price regulation over quantity regulation, namely that when regulation is sufficiently flexible to permit firms to react to non-compliance in another country, the temptation to defect is reduced. The model is tractable and allows for multiple extensions.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 8460

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Economics of Contract: Theory
International Agreements and Observance; International Organizations
International Fiscal Issues; International Public Goods
Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming
Thema
climate change
environmental agreements
green technology
policy instruments
repeated games
compliance
self-enforcing treaties

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Harstad, Bård
Lancia, Francesco
Russo, Alessia
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2020

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Harstad, Bård
  • Lancia, Francesco
  • Russo, Alessia
  • Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2020

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