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GTAP Resource #1104

"Carbon Abatement, Coalition Formation, and International Trade in Greenhouse Gas Emissions"
by Carbone, Jared, Carsten Helm and Thomas Rutherford


Abstract
The success of any international climate change agreement depends on
the strategic incentives of countries to participate. We use a
calibrated non-cooperative game to consider how the terms on which
countries are allowed to trade in emissions permits affect
equilibrium cost and emissions predictions. Wealthy, high abatement
demand countries will participate only in agreements which promise
significant reductions in global emissions, the while developing
countries entering such agreements must be allowed to sell sufficient
emissions rights to make an their participation worthwhile. We find
that stringent caps on the level of emissions rights that any
individual country may allocate itself, combined with relatively weak
restrictions on the volume of trade in which countries may engage are
an effective way of aligning regional incentives. This result runs
contrary to received wisdom from the non-strategic literature on
emissions trading.


Resource Details (Export Citation) GTAP Keywords
Category: 2002 Conference Paper
Status: Published
By/In: Presented at the 5th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Taipei, Taiwan
Date: 2002
Version:
Created: Rutherford, T. (5/20/2002)
Updated: Bacou, M. (7/2/2002)
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