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Leading by Example and International Collective Action

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  • ANDRÉ ROSSI DE OLIVEIRA
  • JOÃO RICARDO FARIA
  • DANIEL G. ARCE M.

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This paper investigates leading by example as a policy prescription for international collective action to provide summation public goods. A country leads by example by committing to a minimal level of provision, and by matching higher contributions there beyond. In an evolutionary game‐theoretic setting, we establish conditions for leading by example to be a neutrally stable strategy; i.e., to noncooperatively implement the cooperative outcome. These conditions are related to the degree of concavity of the contributors' utility functions and the incentives for free riding. They can be tested against empirical estimates of the public benefits of an international regime.

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  • André Rossi De Oliveira & João Ricardo Faria & Daniel G. Arce M., 2005. "Leading by Example and International Collective Action," Journal of Public Economic Theory, Association for Public Economic Theory, vol. 7(1), pages 51-63, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jpbect:v:7:y:2005:i:1:p:51-63
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9779.2005.00193.x
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    1. Daniel G. Arce M., 2004. "Asymmetric Leadership and International Public Goods," Public Finance Review, , vol. 32(5), pages 528-558, September.
    2. Hsiao‐Chi Chen & Yunshyong Chow & Shi‐Miin Liu, 2022. "International environmental agreements under an evolutionary mechanism of imitation and asymmetric countries," International Journal of Economic Theory, The International Society for Economic Theory, vol. 18(3), pages 285-309, September.
    3. João Ricardo Faria & Emilson C.D. Silva, 2017. "Optimal Timing in Rotten Kid Families," CESifo Working Paper Series 6333, CESifo.
    4. Hsiao‐Chi Chen & Shi‐Miin Liu, 2023. "International environmental agreements under different evolutionary imitation mechanisms," International Journal of Economic Theory, The International Society for Economic Theory, vol. 19(2), pages 248-289, June.
    5. Wolfgang Buchholz & Todd Sandler, 2017. "Successful Leadership in Global Public Good Provision: Incorporating Behavioural Approaches," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 67(3), pages 591-607, July.
    6. João Ricardo Faria & Emilson Caputo Delfino Silva, 2020. "Leadership delegation in rotten kid families," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 33(2), pages 441-460, April.
    7. João Rogério Sanson, 2007. "Ethics, politics, and Nonsatiation in Consumption: A Synthesis," Economia, ANPEC - Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pós-Graduação em Economia [Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Economics], vol. 8(1), pages 1-20.

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