Calendrier du 07 février 2019
Behavior seminar
Du 07/02/2019 de 11:00 à 12:00
salle R2-21, campus Jourdan, 75014 Paris
DANNENBERG Astrid (Université de Kassel)
Coercive Trade Agreements for Supplying Global Public Goods
International cooperation to supply a global public good like climate change mitigation is more vulnerable to free riding than international cooperation to liberalize trade. Can it help to link these different issues? Simple theory shows that, in the best possible case, linkage is a coordination game in which equilibrium selection is unreliable. Taking our game into the experimental lab, we find that the institution players use to decide about linkage and the relative gains of trade matter for the use and success of linkage.