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What is the Top Priority on Climate Change?
Klemperer, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
talk to the Potsdam Global Sustainability Symposium (which drafted the Potsdam Declaration presented to the 2007 UN Climate …
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Adaptation Can Help Mitigation: An Integrated Approach to Post-2012 Climate Policy
Bosello, Francesco; Carraro, Carlo; De Cian, Enrica - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
policy measures, adaptation will be needed to address climate related damages. What is the role of adaptation in this setting … adaptation and mitigation expenditures in a cost-effective setting in which countries cooperate to achieve a long … different adaptation modes (reactive and anticipatory), mitigation, and capacity building to analyse the optimal portfolio of …
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The Entwining of Trade Policy with Environmental and Labour Standards
Anderson, Kym - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
While environmental and labour issues are not new to the GATT, nor to other trade policy fora, they are likely to have a more prominent role in trade policy discussions in the years ahead for the newly formed World Trade Organization (WTO). Many developing countries perceive the entwining of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124201
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Will Trade Liberalization Harm the Environment? The Case of Indonesia 2020
Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
Most-favoured-nation (MFN) trade liberalizations will always improve global economic welfare provided globally optimal environmental, and other, policies are in place. But since the latter proviso is not met in practice, empirical studies of the environmental and resource depletion effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666805
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Voluntary Corporate Environmental Initiatives and Shareholder Wealth
Fisher-Vanden, Karen; Thorburn, Karin S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
Researchers debate whether environmental investments reduce firm value or can actually improve financial performance. We provide some first evidence on shareholder wealth effects of voluntary corporate environmental initiatives. Companies announcing membership in Climate Leaders and Ceres - two...
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Reconciling Trade and Climate Policies
de Melo, Jaime; Mathys, Nicole Andréa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The outcome of the 15th conference of the Parties to the UNFCC showed a shift from a top-down approach with a collective target favoring environmental objectives to a bottom-up accord favoring political feasibility. There is no meaningful binding agreement in sight, also because the global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084722
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Trade and Climate Change: The Challenges Ahead
de Melo, Jaime; Mathys, Nicole Andréa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
The outcome of the 15th conference of the Parties to the UNFCC showed a shift from a top-down approach with a collective target favoring environmental objectives to a bottom-up accord favoring political feasibility with no meaningful binding agreement in sight as the global climate regime and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677241
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Weather and Infant Mortality in Africa
Kudamatsu, Masayuki; Persson, Torsten; Strömberg, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We estimate how random weather fluctuations affected infant mortality across 28 African countries in the past, combining high-resolution data from retrospective fertility surveys (DHS) and climate-model reanalysis (ERA-40). We find that infants were much more likely to die when exposed in utero...
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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry
Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hemous, David; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Can directed technical change be used to combat climate change? We construct new firm-level panel data on auto industry innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 countries over several decades. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084407
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Incomplete Contracts and Firm Boundaries: New Directions
Dessein, Wouter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The seminal work by Grossman and Hart (1986) made the study of firm boundaries susceptible to formal economic analysis, and illuminated an important role for markets in providing incentives. In this essay, I discuss some new directions that the literature has taken since. As a central challenge,...
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