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Vog: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Health Costs of Particulates and SO2

De Paula, Áureo; Halliday, Timothy J.; Lynham, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Kilauea volcano is the largest stationary source of SO2 pollution in the United States of America. Moreover, the SO2 … pollution variation to estimate the impact of particulate matter and SO2 on emergency room admissions and costs in the state of … evidence that particulate pollution increases pulmonary-related hospitalization. Specifically, a one standard deviation …

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Intergenerational inequality aversion, growth and the role of damages: Occam’s rule for the global carbon tax

Rezai, Armon; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We use the Euler equation to put forward a back-on-the-envelope rule for the global carbon tax based on a two-box carbon cycle with temperature lag, and a constant elasticity of marginal damages with respect to GDP. This tax falls with time impatience and intergenerational inequality aversion...

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Abandoning Fossil Fuel: How Fast And How Much?

Rezai, Armon; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Climate change must deal with two market failures, global warming and learning by doing in renewable use. The social optimum requires an aggressive renewables subsidy in the near term and a gradually rising carbon tax which falls in long run. As a result, more renewables are used relative to...

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Energy and Climate Change in China

Carraro, Carlo; Massetti, Emanuele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper examines future energy and emissions scenarios in China generated by the Integrated Assessment Model WITCH. A Business-as-Usual scenario is compared with five scenarios in which Greenhouse Gases emissions are taxed, at different levels. The elasticity of China’s emissions is...

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What is the Top Priority on Climate Change?

Klemperer, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

What should be the West's top priority for climate-change policy? This article is a revised and updated version of my talk to the Potsdam Global Sustainability Symposium (which drafted the Potsdam Declaration presented to the 2007 UN Climate Change Conference in Bali).

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Are Compact Cities Environmentally Friendly?

Gaigné, Carl; Riou, Stéphane; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

There is a large consensus among international institutions and national governments to favor urban-containment policies - the compact city - as a way to improve the ecological performance of the urban system. This approach overlooks a fundamental fact: what matters for the ecological outcome of...

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Household Willingness to Pay for Organic Products

Griffith, Rachel; Nesheim, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We use hedonic prices and purchase quantities to consider what can be learned about household willingness to pay for baskets of organic products and how this varies across households. We use rich scanner data on food purchases by a large number of households to compute household specific lower...

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Does Supporting Passenger Railways Reduce Road Traffic Externalities?

Lalive, Rafael; Luechinger, Simon; Schmutzler, Armin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

reduce the number of severe road traffic accidents, carbon monoxide, nitrogen monoxide, nitrogen dioxide pollution and infant …

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Sources of Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries

Broner, Fernando A; Bustos, Paula; Carvalho, Vasco M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

the country level with data on pollution intensity at the industry level to show that countries with laxer environmental …. We propose an instrument for environmental regulation based on meteorological determinants of pollution dispersion … identified by the atmospheric pollution literature. We find that the effect of environmental regulation on the pattern of trade …

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Centralization and Accountability: Theory and Evidence from the Clean Air Act

Boffa, Federico; Piolatto, Amedeo; Ponzetto, Giacomo AM - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

that less informed states enjoyed faster declines in pollution after the 1970 Clean Air Act centralized environmental …

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