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Minimum Participation Rules with Heterogeneous Countries

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Hans-Peter Weikard (Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
Leo Wangler (Department of Economics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany)
Andreas Freytag (Department of Economics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany)

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Almost all international environmental agreements include a minimum participation rule. Under such a rule an agreement becomes legally binding if and only if a certain threshold in terms of membership or contribution is reached. We analyze a cartel game with open membership and heterogeneous countries to study the endogenous choice of a minimum participation rule and its role for the success of international environmental agreeme

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Paper provided by Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Max-Planck-Institute of Economics, Thueringer Universitaets- und Landesbibliothek in its series Jena Economic Research Papers in Economics with number 2009-077.

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Keywords: Minimum participation rules; international environmental agreements; coalition formation; transboundary pollution; environmental policy coordination;

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D02 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Institutions: Design, Formation, and Operations
C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games

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