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An economic model of international negotiations relating to transfrontier pollution

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This paper formulates a mathematical model of negotiations taking place between delegates of countries whose citizens share a common resource, viz. the ”Southern Bight” (i.e. the southern part of the North Sea) and are concerned about its quality for various and possibly conflicting reasons. The negotiations process, proved to converge to a Pareto optimum of the international economy, is formulated in terms of gradual domestic abatements of pollutants, with a hydrodynamic and ecological model called upon for expressing the effects of these abatements on the quality of the sea. In addition, compensatory payments among countries are defined which are shown to cover all abatement costs, to break even and to be such that for each country individually, benefits are larger than the net costs they incur. The concluding section raises the free riding issue in this context, and considers the relation between reaching an optimum in this way and the ”polluters pay principle”.
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  • TULKENS, Henry, 1979. "An economic model of international negotiations relating to transfrontier pollution," LIDAM Reprints CORE 351, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE).
    • Handle: RePEc:cor:louvrp:351
    DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-25534-7_7
    Note: In : K. Krippendorff (ed.), Communicatioan and Control in Society. Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 199-212, 1979
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