Policy Cooperation Among Benevolent Governments May Be Undesirable

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Journal: Review of Economic Studies
Year: 1989
Volume: 56
Issue: 2
Pages: 289-296

Score contribution per author:

8.043 = (α=2.01 / 1 authors) × 4.0x S-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

This paper presents a simple counterexample to the belief that policy cooperation among benevolent governments is desirable. It also explains circumstances under which such counter-examples are possible and relates them to the literature on time inconsistency.

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RePEc Handle
repec:oup:restud:v:56:y:1989:i:2:p:289-296.
Journal Field
General
Author Count
1
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2026-01-25