Unilateral Actions the Case of International Environmental Problems



Sequential equilibrium

We restrict attention to pure strategy equilibria. Consequently, there remains
two different kinds of equilibria; separating equilibria, where each type send
different signals, and pooling equilibria where the two types send the same sig-
nal. Since the analysis focuses on the prospects of unilateral actions, focus is
exclusively on sequential separating equilibrium, or more precisely, interest is
on finding condition for a separating equilibrium to exist. In a separating equi-
librium, the receiver can perfectly infer the type of the sender. Formally, a col-
lection of reduction levels and beliefs
{qH ,qL,ρ(q)} forms a sequential equi-
librium if the following conditions are satisfied:

i) Optimality for the country with costs θ:

Qθ arg max NBi (θ, Qi, p(Qi ))

ii) Beliefs are Bayes-consistent:

a) If qH qL then ρ(qH ) = 0 and ρ(qL) = 1

b) If Qh = Ql then ρ(qH) = ρ( qL) = Po

c) If qθ {qh , ql } then any ρ(qθ ) is admissible

After observing qi, the receiver must form a belief about which types could
have sent
qi. These posterior beliefs are denoted ρ(θqi) with
ρ(L qi)+ρ(H qi)=1. The first requirement of strategies that form a sequential
equilibrium is sequential rationality, which amounts to saying that for each
qi, qj
must maximise expected payoffs, given the beliefs. Regarding the optimality of
beliefs, if
qH qL and the receiver observes, e.g., qH, then it must be that costs
are high, and the only consistent belief is
ρ(qH ) = 0 and given this belief, it is
optimal for the high cost type to play
qH . In this particular signalling game the
requirement of consistency of beliefs does not place any restrictions on beliefs

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