Game theory and international environmental cooperation : essential readings Key environmental issues such as biodiversity and climate change have in recent years become more pressing than ever. Where the critical papers in the early 1990s explained the difficulties of cooperation in tackling transboundary environmental problems later works have analyzed the various alternatives and increased our understanding of various institutional designs and negotiation protocols impact on the success of cooperation. This Research Review identifies the most important articles on the game theoretic analysis of international environmental cooperation to both confront the cooperative and non cooperative approaches to this and demonstrate the diversity of methods used to analyze international environmental agreements Alfred Endres and Cornelia Ohl (2001) International Environmental Cooperation in the One Shot Prisoners Dilemma Schmollers Jahrbuch Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts und Sozialwissenschaften Journal of Applied Social Science Studies 121 (1) 1 26 Vincent Boucher and Yann Bramoullé (2010) Providing Global Public Goods under Uncertainty Journal of Public Economics 94 (9 10) October 591 603 Scott Barrett (2013) Climate Treaties and Approaching Catastrophes Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 66 (2) September 235 50 Alessandro Tavoni Astrid Dannenberg Giorgos Kallis and Andreas Löschel (2011) Inequality Communication and The Avoidance of Disastrous Climate Change in a Public Goods Game Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (29) July 11825 9 Lata Gangadharan and Veronika Nemes (2009) Experimental Analysis of Risk and Uncertainty in Provisioning Private and Public Goods Economic Inquiry 47 (1) January 146 64 Santiago J. Rubio and Alistair Ulph (2007) An Infinite Horizon Model of Dynamic Membership of International Environmental Agreements Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 54 (3) November 296 310 Aart de Zeeuw (2008) Dynamic Effects on the Stability of International Environmental Agreements Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 55 (2) March 163 74 Marc Germain Philippe Toint Henry Tulkens and Aart de Zeeuw (2003) Transfers to Sustain Dynamic Core Theoretic Cooperation in International Stock Pollutant Control Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 28 (1) October 79 99 Hans Peter Weikard Rob Dellink and Ekko van Ierland (2010) Renegotiations in the Greenhouse Environmental and Resource Economics 45 (4) April 573 96 Michèle Breton Lucia Sbragia and Georges Zaccour (2010) A Dynamic Model for International Environmental Agreements Environmental and Resource Economics 45 (1) January 25 48 Recommended readings (Machine generated): Karl Göran Mäler (1989) The Acid Rain Game in H. Folmer and E. van Ierland (eds) Valuation Methods and Policy Making in Environmental Economics Chapter 12 Amsterdam The Netherlands: Elsevier 231 52 Scott Barrett (1994) Self Enforcing International Environmental Agreements Oxford Economic Papers Special Issue on Environmental Economics 46 October 878 94 Carlo Carraro and Domenico Siniscalco (1993) Strategies for the International Protection of the Environment Journal of Public Economics 52 (3) October 309 28 Michael Hoel (1992) International Environment Conventions: The Case of Uniform Reductions of Emissions Environmental and Resource Economics 2 (2) March 141 59 Parkash Chander and Henry Tulkens (1997) The Core of an Economy with Multilateral Environmental Externalities International Journal of Game Theory 26 (3) October 379 401 Effrosyni Diamantoudi and Eftichios S. Sartzetakis (2006) Stable International Environmental Agreements: An Analytical Approach Journal of Public Economic Theory 8 (2) May 247 63 Santiago J. Rubio and Alistair Ulph (2006) Self Enforcing International Environmental Agreements Revisited Oxford Economic Papers 58 (2) April 233 63 Larry Karp and Leo Simon (2013) Participation Games and International Environmental Agreements: A Non Parametric Model Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 65 (2) March 326 44 Carsten Helm (2001) On the Existence of a Cooperative Solution for a Coalitional Game with Externalities International Journal of Game Theory 30 (1) September 141 6 Rögnvaldur Hannesson (1997) Fishing as a Supergame Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 32 (3) March 309 22 Michael Finus and Sigve Tjøtta (2003) The Oslo Protocol on Sulfur Reduction: The Great Leap Forward Journal of Public Economics 87 (9 10) September 2031 48 Henk Folmer Pierre v. Mouche and Shannon Ragland (1993) Interconnected Games and International Environmental Problems Environmental and Resource Economics 3 (4) August 313 35 Anke Gerber and Philipp C. Wichardt (2009) Providing Public Goods in the Absence of Strong Institutions Journal of Public Economics 93 (3 4) April 429 39 Todd L. Cherry and David M. McEvoy (2013) Enforcing Compliance with Environmental Agreements in the Absence of Strong Institutions: An Experimental Analysis Environmental and Resource Economics 54 (1) January 63 77 David M. McEvoy and John K. Stranlund (2009) Self Enforcing International Environmental Agreements with Costly Monitoring for Compliance Environmental and Resource Economics 42 (4) April 491 508 Nori Tarui Charles F. Mason Stephen Polasky and Greg Ellis (2008) Cooperation in the Commons with Unobservable Actions Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 55 (1) January 37 51 Prajit K. Dutta and Roy Radner (2009) A Strategic Analysis of Global Warming: Theory and Some Numbers Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 71 (2) August 187 209 Michael Finus and Bianca Rundshagen (1998) Toward a Positive Theory of Coalition Formation and Endogenous Instrumental Choice in Global Pollution Control Public Choice 96 (1 2) July 145 86 Scott Barrett (2002) Consensus Treaties Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 158 (4) December 529 47 Pierre Courtois and Guillaume Haeringer (2012) Environmental Cooperation: Ratifying Second Best Agreements Public Choice 151 (3 4) June 565 84 A. Caparrós J. C. Péreau and T. Tazdai͏̈t (2004) North South Climate Change Negotiations: A Sequential Game with Asymmetric Information Public Choice 121 (3 4) December 455 80 Alejandro Caparrós and Jean Christophe Péreau (2013) Forming Coalitions to Negotiate North South Climate Agreements Environment and Development Economics Special Issue on Strategic Behaviour and Environmental Commons 18 (1) February 69 92 Bård Harstad (2012) Climate Contracts: A Game of Emissions Investments Negotiations and Renegotiations Review of Economic Studies 79 (4) October 1527 57 Carlo Carraro Carmen Marchiori and Sonia Oreffice (2009) Endogenous Minimum Participation in International Environmental Treaties Environmental and Resource Economics 42 (3) March 411 25 Astrid Dannenberg Andreas Lange and Bodo Sturm (2014) Participation and Commitment in Voluntary Coalitions to Provide Public Goods Economica 81 (322) April 257 75 Scott Barrett (2006) Climate Treaties and Breakthrough Technologies American Economic Review 96 (2) May 22 5 Michael Hoel and Aart de Zeeuw (2010) Can a Focus on Breakthrough Technologies Improve the Performance of International Environmental Agreements Environmental and Resource Economics 47 (3) November 395 406 Matthew McGinty (2007) International Environmental Agreements among Asymmetric Nations Oxford Economic Papers 59 (1) January 45 62 Hans Peter Weikard (2009) Cartel Stability Under An Optimal Sharing Rule Manchester School 77 (5) September 575 93 Carlo Carraro Johan Eyckmans and Michael Finus (2006) Optimal Transfers and Participation Decisions in International Environmental Agreements Review of International Organizations 1 (4) December 379 96 Matthew McGinty Garrett Milam and Alejandro Gelves (2012) Coalition Stability in Public Goods Provision: Testing an Optimal Allocation Rule Environmental and Resource Economics 52 (3) July 327 45 Stefan Ambec and Yves Sprumont (2002) Sharing a River Journal of Economic Theory 107 (2) December 453 62 Andreas Lange and Carsten Vogt (2003) Cooperation in International Environmental Negotiations due to a Preference for Equity Journal of Public Economics 87 (9 10) September 2049 67 Michael Kosfeld Akira Okada and Arno Riedl (2009) Institution Formation in Public Goods Games American Economic Review 99 (4) September 1335 55 Francesco Bosello Barabara Buchner and Carlo Carraro (2003) Equity Development and Climate Change Control Journal of the European Economic Association 1 (2 3) April May 601 11 Johan Eyckmans and Michael Finus (2006) Coalition Formation in a Global Warming Game: How the Design of Protocols Affects the Success of Environmental Treaty Making Natural Resource Modeling 19 (3) September 323 58 Geir B. Asheim Camilla Bretteville Froyn Jon Hovi and Fredric C. Menz (2006) Regional versus Global Cooperation for Climate Control Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 51 (1) January 93 109 Seong lin Na and Hyun Song Shin (1998) International Environmental Agreements under Uncertainty Oxford Economic Papers 50 (2) April 173 85 Michael Finus and Pedro Pintassilgo (2013) The Role of Uncertainty and Learning for the Success of International Climate Agreements Journal of Public Economics 103 July 29 43