Themes

Demand for regulation: market failures and decentralization failures

Typology 1: Types of strategic game and good generated

Coordination games: Common rules of the road to align conduct for mutual benefit. Network effects. Choice among potential coordinating rules may have distributional effects.

Cooperation Games: Public [or usually mixed] goods (non-excludable, non-rival). Incentives to free ride / how to counter free-riding? Distribution of costs and benefits involved in setting terms of cooperation.

Club goods: Membership-based, with internal distributional effects and positive and negative externalities). Need to police defection.

Typology 2: Type of substantive issue being regulated: military, markets, morals

Typology 3: Type of suppliers in the structure of governance

Inter-state treaties

inter-governmental networks

hybrid (public-private)

private

What are the incentives of suppliers?