Selfish, strategic players may benefit from cooperation, provided they reach agreement. It is therefore important to construct mechanisms that facilitate such cooperation, especially in the case of asymmetric private information. The two major issues are: (1) singling out a fair and efficient outcome among the many individually rational possibilities in a strategic game, and (2) establishing a ...

Past work on tournaments in iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma and the evolution of cooperation spawned by Axelrod has contributed insights about achieving cooperation in social dilemmas, as well as a framework for strategic analysis in such settings. We present a broader, more extensive framework for strategic analysis in general games, which we illustrate in the context of a particular social dilemm...

Because carbon emissions create externalities across countries and generations, climate policy requires international cooperation and intergenerational altruism. A differential game using overlapping generations with intergenerational altruism shows how altruism and cooperation interact, and provides estimates of their relative importance in determining equilibrium steady state carbon levels. A...

Because of the difficult situation in world energy market, particular, Europe, and need to respond global challenges terms increasing security individual countries their associations by reducing dependence on import fossil fuels (natural gas, oil petroleum products, stone coal, etc.) development renewable level difference natural resource potential traditional resources, it is necessary develop...

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China is a developing country with unbalanced development between regions. It is an important poverty reduction strategy with outstanding Chinese characteristics by carrying out cooperation between eastern and western regions in alleviating poverty in which the eastern developed provinces or cities are organized to help the poor areas in western China. This paper made a complete analysis in the...

How can we better explain the pattern variation of international space cooperation under economic stress? International cooperation in large-scale space application programs has become a cost-effective instrument to achieve foreign policy goals and to balance colossal expenditure deriving from natural and technological constraints, particularly under budgetary stringency. However, cooperation p...