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Unilateral Actions the Case of International Environmental Problems

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Urs Steiner Brandt ()

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When abatement costs are uncertain, but correlated, and a country becomes pri-vately informed that costs are low, then unilateral actions serve as a signalling devise to reveal low costs and unilateral actions have the potential to trigger positive responses abroad. However, the country engaging in unilateral actions is the one with the highest expectation about the other countries’ reactions, and it might suffer from an effect like the winners curse.

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Paper provided by University of Southern Denmark, Department of Environmental and Business Economics in its series Working Papers with number 40/03.

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Keywords: International environmental problems; unilateral reductions; signal-ling costs;

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Q28 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Government Policy
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D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty

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  1. Urs Steiner Brandt & Gert Tinggaard Svendsen, 2004. "Fighting Windmills: The Coalition of Industrialists and Environmentalists in the Climate Change Issue," International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 4(4), pages 327-337, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  3. Urs Steiner Brandt & Gert Tinggaard Svendsen, 2003. "Fighting windmills? EU industrial interests and global climate negotiations," Working Papers 37/03, University of Southern Denmark, Department of Environmental and Business Economics. [Downloadable!]
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