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The Polluter Pays Principle and Cost-Benefit Analysis of Climate Change: An Application of Fund
Tol, Richard S.J. - 2006
); (3) NC CBA with international permit trade; (4) NC CBA with joint and several liability for climate change damages; and … (5) NC CBA with liability proportional to a country's share in cumulative emissions. As estimates of the marginal damage … the positive, dynamic externalities of abatement. Proportional liability shifts abatement effort towards the richer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312407
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Effects of the CDM on poverty eradication and global climate protection
Rübbelke, Dirk T. G.; Rive, Nathan - 2008
In an impure public good model we analyze the effects of CDM transfers on poverty as well as on the global climate … for China in which we vary the rate of the CDM transfer. The simulations differ by the assumption of China's domestic air …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279477
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The judgement proof opportunity
Van'tVeld, Klaas; Rausser, Gordon Clyde; Simon, Leo K. - 1997
When liability for environmental spills, product failures, or other types of accidents is imposed on firms with … financial decisions in the face of liability, as well as the competitive pressures it faces in capital and output markets. By … fully offset by market power. Finally, by analysing how hazardous industries as a whole restructure in response to liability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608355
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Carbon taxes, path dependency and directed technical change: Evidence from the auto industry
Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hemous, David; … - 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 firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294270
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Quantifying sustainability: A new approach and world ranking
Carraro, Carlo; Campagnolo, Lorenza; Eboli, Fabio; … - 2012
This paper proposes a new tool to assess sustainability and make the concept of sustainable development operational. It considers its multi-dimensional structure combining the information deriving from a selection of relevant sustainability indicators belonging to economic, social and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294272
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Climate change and adaptation: The case of Nigerian agriculture
Bosello, Francesco; Campagnolo, Lorenza; Eboli, Fabio - 2013
The present research offers an economic assessment of climate change impacts on the four major crop families characterizing Nigerian agriculture, covering more than 80% of agricultural value added. The evaluation is performed shocking land productivity in a computable general equilibrium model...
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A Ricardian analysis of the impact of climate change on European agriculture
Van Passel, Steven; Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, Robert - 2012
This research estimates the impact of climate on European agriculture using a continental scale Ricardian analysis. Data on climate, soil, geography and regional socio-economic characteristics were matched for 37 612 individual farms across the EU-15. Farmland values across Europe are sensitive...
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Energy poverty alleviation and climate change mitigation: Is there a trade off?
Chakravarty, Shoibal; Tavoni, Massimo - 2013
Energy poverty alleviation has become an important political issue in the most recent years. Several initiatives and policies have been proposed to deal with poor access to modern sources of energy in many developing countries. Given the large number of people lacking basic energy services, an...
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Modeling linkages between climate policy and land use: an overview
van der Werf, Edwin; Peterson, Sonja - 2007
Agriculture and forestry play an important role in emitting and storing greenhouse gases. For an efficient and cost-effective climate policy it is therefore important to explicitly include land use, land use change, and forestry (LULUCF) in economyclimate models. This paper gives an overview and...
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Luring Others into Climate Action: Coalition Formation Games with Threshold and Spillover Effects
Bosetti, Valentina; Heugues, Melanie; Tavoni, Alessandro - 2015
We study the effect of leadership in an experimental threshold public 'bad' game, where we manipulate both the relative returns of two investments (the more productive of which causes a negative externality) and the extent to which the gains from leadership diffuse to the group. The game...
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