Behavioral aspects of the international law of global public goods and common pool resources

• Anne van Aaken ^[1]
  1. [1] University of St. Gallen

     University of St. Gallen

     St. Gallen, Suiza

     
• Localización: American Journal of International Law, ISSN 0002-9300, Vol. 112, Nº 1, 2018, págs. 67-79
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Collective action problems with public good characteristics such as climate change have important implications for international law. This note argues that behavioral insights from laboratory experiments, in which individuals engage in public goods games, can contribute to our understanding of how best to optimize the design of international legal regimes dealing with global public goods and common pool resources. Behavioral economics, to the extent it supplements or displaces rational-choice models in institutional design, may enable deeper and more sustained forms of international cooperation.