Issue Linkage and Issue Tie-In in Multilateral Negotiations

30 Pages Posted: 27 Nov 2000

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Carlo Perroni

University of Warwick - Department of Economics; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)

Paola Conconi

Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) - European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES)

Date Written: October 2001

Abstract

We describe a model of international, multidimensional policy coordination where countries can enter into selective and separate agreements with different partners along different policy dimensions. The model is used to examine the implications of negotiation tie-in - the requirement that agreements must span multiple dimensions of interaction - for the viability of multilateral cooperation when countries are linked by international trade flows and transboundary pollution. We show that, while in some cases negotiation tie-in has either no effect or can make multilateral cooperation more viable, in others a formal tie-in constraint can make an otherwise viable joint multilateral agreement unstable.

Keywords: International Cooperation, Trade And Environmental Policy Negotiations

JEL Classification: F0, F1, Q3, C7

Suggested Citation

Perroni, Carlo and Conconi, Paola, Issue Linkage and Issue Tie-In in Multilateral Negotiations (October 2001). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=237452 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.237452

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