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A climate agreement with full participation

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  • Froyn, Camilla Bretteville
  • Hovi, Jon
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Using a repeated-game model, we demonstrate that by limiting the punishment for non-compliance, a climate agreement with full participation can be sustained as a weakly renegotiation-proof equilibrium even without watering down abatement levels.

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  • Froyn, Camilla Bretteville & Hovi, Jon, 2008. "A climate agreement with full participation," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 99(2), pages 317-319, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:99:y:2008:i:2:p:317-319
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