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Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Economics Research Institute Study Paper

Volume

96

Issue

20

Publisher

Utah State University Department of Economics

Publication Date

1996

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Last Page

17

Abstract

The combination of a general greening of international political debate, and the events of 1992 at the Rio Earth summit have led to great interest in the question of global environmental protection. While it is recognized that international environmental agreements (IEAs) are the means by which the earth's fragile environment is most likely to be protected, this recognition has been recent. Hence, there is very little formal research on the design and study of lEAs. As such, in this paper, I propose and describe a research agenda for the design and study of lEAs. Very generally, I propose that we frame the lEA design question as a problem in mechanism design. We will then be able to use, inter alia, the theory of common agency and the theory of hierarchies to generate interesting new theoretical and practical insights into the workings of IEAs.

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