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Behavioral Aspects of the International Law of Global Public Goods and Common Pool Resources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2018

Anne van Aaken
Anne van Aaken*
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Professor of Law and Economics, Legal Theory, Public International Law and European Law, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
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Abstract

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.

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American Journal of International Law , Volume 112 , Issue 1 , January 2018 , pp. 67 - 79
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Copyright © 2018 by The American Society of International Law 

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