Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Trivikram Dokka Venkata Satyanaraya Author-Name-First: Trivikram Author-Name-Last: Dokka Venkata Satyanaraya Author-Name: Herve Moulin Author-Name-First: Herve Author-Name-Last: Moulin Author-Name: Indrajit Ray Author-Name-First: Indrajit Author-Name-Last: Ray Author-Name: Sonali Sen Gupta Author-Name-First: Sonali Author-Name-Last: Sen Gupta Title: Improving Abatement Levels and Welfare by Coarse Correlation in an Environmental Game Abstract: Coarse correlated equilibria (CCE, Moulin and Vial, 1978) can be used to substantially improve upon the Nash equilibrium solution of the well-analysed abatement game (Barrett, 1994). We show this by computing successively the CCE with the largest total utility, the one with the highest possible abatement levels and finally, the one with maximal abatement level while maintaining at
least the level of utility from the Nash outcome. Creation-Date: 2019 File-URL: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/documents/lums/economics/working-papers/LancasterWP2019_009.pdf File-Format: application/pdf Number: 266042710 Classification-JEL: C72, Q52 Keywords: Abatement game, Coarse correlated equilibrium, Efficiency gain Handle: RePEc:lan:wpaper:266042710