Can a focus on breakthrough technologies improve the performance of international environmental agreements?
By: Michael Hoel, Aart de Zeeuw.
Contributors: Zeeuw, Aart de, 1952-; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 15043; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 15043.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "In a recent paper, Barrett (2006) reaches the conclusion that in general the answer to the question in the title is no.  We show in this paper that a focus on the R&D phase in the development of breakthrough technologies changes the picture.  The stability of international treaties improves and thus the possibility of realizing benefits of cooperation"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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