کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5050917 1371105 2010 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Climate change in a public goods game: Investment decision in mitigation versus adaptation
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک بوم شناسی، تکامل، رفتار و سامانه شناسی
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Climate change in a public goods game: Investment decision in mitigation versus adaptation
چکیده انگلیسی

We use behavioral and experimental economics to study a particular aspect of the economics of climate change: the potential trade-off between countries' investments in mitigation versus adaptation. While mitigation of greenhouse gases can be viewed as a public good, adaptation to climate change is a private good, benefiting only the country or the individual that invests in adaptation. We use a one-shot public-goods game that deviates from the standard public-goods game by introducing a stochastic term to account for probabilistic destruction in a climate-change setting, where the probability density function is mapped to within-group levels of mitigation. We compare low-vulnerability and high-vulnerability treatments by varying the magnitude of disaster across treatments. Our results show that there is no significant difference in the level of mitigation across these treatments. Further, our results emphasize the role of trust in enhancing cooperation.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Ecological Economics - Volume 70, Issue 2, 15 December 2010, Pages 331-338
نویسندگان
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