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International Climate Agreements and the Scream of Greta
Maggi, Giovanni; Staiger, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
climate catastrophe and emphasizes the role of international externalities that a country's policies exert on other countries … and intertemporal externalities that current generations exert on future generations. Within this setting, we explore the …
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On the Geographic Implications of Carbon Taxes
Conte, Bruno; Desmet, Klaus; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
unfavorable to unilateral carbon taxes. We show that this logic breaks down in a world with trade and migration where economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462726
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Carbon Emissions Trading and Environmental Protection : International Evidence
Bai, Jennie; Ru, Hong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study how the implementation of emissions trading systems (ETS) impacts emissions reductions and the usage of renewable energy using a panel sample of the largest 100 countries worldwide. Exploiting the cross-country variations in ETS implementations, we show that ETS adoption materially...
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Fighting Climate Change : International Attitudes Toward Climate Policies
Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Fabre, Adrien; Kruse, Tobias; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using new surveys on more than 40,000 respondents in twenty countries that account for 72% of global CO2 emissions, we study the understanding of and attitudes toward climate change and climate policies. We show that, across countries, support for climate policies hinges on three key perceptions...
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Climate Change Around the World
Krusell, Per; Smith, Anthony A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The economic effects of climate change vary across both time and space. To study these effects, this paper builds a global economy-climate model featuring a high degree of geographic resolution. Carbon emissions from the use of energy in production increase the Earth's (average) temperature and...
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Carbon Border Adjustments, Climate Clubs, and Subsidy Races When Climate Policies Vary
Clausing, Kimberly A.; Wolfram, Catherine D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Jurisdictions adopt heterogeneous climate policies that vary both in terms of ambition and in terms of policy approach, with some jurisdictions pricing carbon and others subsidizing clean production. We distinguish two types of policy spillovers associated with diverse policy approaches to...
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Informationally Efficient Climate Policy : Designing Markets to Measure and Price Externalities
Lemoine, Derek - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
states of the world in order to calculate the optimal tax, the regulator here estimates damages as they are realized and …
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The Distribution of Environmental Damages
Hsiang, Solomon - 2017
Most regulations designed to reduce environmental externalities impose costs on individuals and firms. An active body … environmental externalities. We review this burgeoning literature and develop a simple and general framework for focusing future … empirical investigations. We apply our framework to findings related to the economic impact of air pollution, deforestation, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453831
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Trade, Leakage, and the Design of a Carbon Tax
Weisbach, David A.; Kortum, Samuel; Wang, Michael Y.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
region of the world imposes a climate policy and the rest of the world is passive. We solve the model analytically and also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334461
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The Impact of Climate Change on Mortality in the United States : Benefits and Costs of Adaptation
Deschênes, Olivier - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper reviews and extends the recent empirical literature on the impact of climate change on mortality and adaptation in the United States. The analysis produces several new facts. First, the reductions in the impact of extreme heat on mortality risk previously documented up to 2004 have...
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