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This paper provides a model that attempts to deal with the transboundary nature of the acid rain problem, using a game theoretic approach consistent with mainstream economic theory. The general forms of cooperative and non cooperative equilibria in explicit and implicit set-up of the model are presented under the assumptions of complete and incomplete information.
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Halkos, G.E. Incomplete information in the acid rain game. Empirica 23, 129–148 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00925336
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