The Importance of EU Coordination: Citizen Preferences for Climate Leadership and the Role of Conditional Cooperation
通过七个欧洲国家的选择实验，发现公民是条件合作者，只有在确信其他国家会跟进时才支持本国气候领导，多数人因担心搭便车而反对，表明欧盟层面协调至关重要。
Abstract We use a choice experiment to investigate the support for climate leadership among representative panels of citizens in seven European countries. We find that people tend to be conditional cooperators and are more positive about their country being a climate leader if assured that other countries will follow suit. At realistic cost levels, a majority oppose their country taking the lead, and most do not expect that taking the lead will result in other countries following suit. The lack of support is explained by expectations that such leadership will result in other countries free riding. One important implication of our study is that coordination at the European Union level, as demonstrated by the Fit for 55 package, is essential.