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Threshold Effects in Self-Enforcing International Environmental Agreements

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  • Renaud Foucart
  • Grégoire Garsous

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  • Renaud Foucart & Grégoire Garsous, 2013. "Threshold Effects in Self-Enforcing International Environmental Agreements," Working Papers ECARES ECARES 2013-38, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
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    Keywords

    climate change; self-enforcing international agreements; threshold effects;
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    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
    • C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games

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