Mechanism design of matching agreements on global environmental issues

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I have extended my own previous researches concerning the effectiveness of matching agreements on global environmental issues in two directions. First, in the case of asymmetric countries, there exists a matching rule where the efficient agreement is self-enforcing just as the symmetric case. Second, the efficiency and the self-enforcement can be satisfied at the same time when we consider the interdependencies between the actions of signatories and those of non-signatories by allowing the existence of countries that do not commit to the matching. Thus, matching agreements have turned out to be effective in more realistic frameworks