 The Strategic Manipulation of Asymmetric Climate ConflictsYoungseok Park No 16-21, Working Papers from Department of Economics, Appalachian State University Abstract: The decision-makers choose progressive or conservative actions towards climate change. A decision-maker from a country with greater damage from climate change is more likely to be progressive than a country with lesser damage. Climate scientists can manipulate this decision-making by sending publicly observed cheap-talk messages. The likelihood of both players choosing progressive action on climate change decreases if both players are “coordination” types and the scientist is conservative. The conservative scientist can cause this by sending skeptical messages that trigger a spiral of climate change skepticism. This reduces the welfare of both decision-makers. If both players are opportunistic types, a progressive scientist can send alarming messages that cause the decision-maker from the country with greater damage from climate change to be more progressive. This reduces his welfare but benefits the other decision-maker. I show that there does not exist any communication equilibrium for either kind of scientist, for any other combination of player types. Key Words: Climate Change; Climate Politics. JEL-codes: D74 D82 D83 Q54 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:apl:wpaper:16-21 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers from Department of Economics, Appalachian State University Contact information at EDIRC. |
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