FEEM Re3: “Coordinating to Protect the Climate”
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Efforts to provide global public goods clash with the challenges of coordinating contributions and distributing costs equitably.
In this experimental setting, the researchers distribute endowments unequally among a group of people who can reach a target sum through successive contributions. Results suggest that coordination-promoting institutions and early redistribution are decisive for the avoidance of global calamities.