Essays on the Economics of International Environmental Transfers

There are few examples of international cooperation supported by side payments from victim nations even over unidirectional pollution. Chapter 4 presents a possible explanation for a difficulty in promptly attaining cooperation by exploring the consequence of information asymmetry concerning the damage costs within a polluter country. We find that it can often be in a victim country's interest to postpone providing a side payment in order to induce the revelation of this private information from the polluter country. Our numerical exercise suggests potential factors that could contribute to the occurrence of such strategic delay.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Agricultural Economics

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Matsueda, Norimichi

Contributors dc:contributor

• Braden, John

• Environmental Sciences

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9971130

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/83051