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Policymakers' Horizon and the Sustainability of International Cooperation

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  • Paola Conconi
  • Nicolas Sahuguet

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This paper examines the impact of policymakers' horizon on the sustainability of international cooperation. We describe a prisoners' dilemma game between two infinitely-lived countries run by policymakers. We show that re-election incentives can act as a discipline device, making it easier to sustain cooperation between policymakers with finite but potentially renewable mandates than between infinitely-lived policymakers. We also show that, when voting suffers from a recency bias, policymakers may have incentives to "collude" to get re-elected and term limits may help international cooperation.

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Date of creation: 2009
Publication status: Published in: Journal of public economics (2009) v.93,p.549-558
Handle: RePEc:ulb:ulbeco:2013/98547
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  1. Paola Conconi & Nicolas Sahuguet & Maurizio Zanardi, 2014. "Democratic Peace And Electoral Accountability," Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Association, vol. 12(4), pages 997-1028, 08.
  2. Kempf, Hubert & Rossignol, Stéphane, 2013. "National politics and international agreements," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 100(C), pages 93-105.
  3. J. Amegashie, 2011. "Incomplete property rights and overinvestment," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 37(1), pages 81-95, June.
  4. Conconi, Paola & Sahuguet, Nicolas & Zanardi, Maurizio, 2015. "Electoral Incentives, Term Limits and the Sustainability of Peace," CEPR Discussion Papers 10873, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  5. Maggi, Giovanni, 2014. "International Trade Agreements," Handbook of International Economics, Elsevier.

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