Technology Agreements with Heterogeneous Countries

Michael Hoel () and Aart de Zeeuw

No 02/2013, Memorandum from Oslo University, Department of Economics

Abstract: For sufficiently low abatement costs many countries might undertake significant emission reductions even without any international agreement on emission reductions. We consider a situation where a coalition of countries does not cooperate on emission reductions but cooperates on the development of new, climate friendly technologies that reduce the costs of abatement. The equilibrium size of such a coalition, as well as equilibrium emissions, depends on the distribution across countries of their willingness to pay for emission reductions. Increased willingness to pay for emissions reductions for any group of countries will reduce (or leave unchanged) the equilibrium coalition size. However, the effect of such an increase in aggregate willingness to pay on equilibrium emissions is ambiguous.

Keywords: Technology agreement; Coalition stab ility; climate; International agreement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 F42 O32 Q02 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2013-01-07
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