This paper examines future energy and emissions scenarios in China generated by the Integrated Assessment Model WITCH … levels. The elasticity of China’s emissions is estimated by pooling observations from all scenarios and compared with the … elasticity of emissions in OECD countries. China has a higher elasticity than the OECD for a carbon tax lower than 50$ per ton of …

different adaptation modes (reactive and anticipatory), mitigation, and capacity building to analyse the optimal portfolio of …The latest round of international negotiations in Copenhagen led to a set of commitments on emission reduction which … policy measures, adaptation will be needed to address climate related damages. What is the role of adaptation in this setting …

We provide theoretical and empirical evidence that policy uncertainty can significantly affect firm level investment … and entry decisions in the context of international trade. When market entry costs are sunk, policy uncertainty can create … dynamic, heterogeneous firms model we show that: (i) investment and entry into export markets is reduced when trade policy is …

links between these economic relationships and immigration policy. It concludes with an explanation for the apparent … difference in immigration's impact in the two global centuries, and thus on policy. …

reduced emission abatement in the US, but also the spillover effects on technology and countries’ relative bargaining power … benefits of a new, recently proposed regime, which aims at achieving GHG emission control by enhancing cooperation on …

and search-matching models. For that, we study a policy that consists in decreasing the urban unemployment benefit. In an …

, participation and optimal policy should be jointly analysed. Moreover, our results show that the US, Russia and China have different …This Paper analyses whether different emission trading regimes provide different incentives to participate in a … cooperative climate agreement. Different incentive structures are discussed for those countries, namely the US, Russia and China …

unemployed is particularly costly, this policy provides insurance equivalent to that provided by the current system. By reducing …