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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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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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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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present volume look with critical eyes on financial theories, supervisory structures, (mis)pricing of risk and distorted … incentives, risk management models and procedures, conflicts of interest and bank strategies. Their perspectives are quite …
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to farmer investment is uninsured risk: when provided with insurance against the primary catastrophic risk they face … basis risk associated with the index insurance, and with imperfect trust that promised payouts will be delivered. …
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that, contrary to what they profess, macroeconomic and political risk is not inhibiting the investment behavior of …
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withdrawal of employers and external insurers as risk bearers of systematic financial and longevity risks. Partly because of … pension: the Personal Pension with Risk sharing (PPR). By unbundling and valuing the investment, (dis)saving, insurance and … risk-sharing functions of pensions, PPRs allow risk management and (dis)saving to be customized to the specific features of …
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We analyze exclusive contracts between health care providers and insurers in a model where some consumers choose to stay uninsured. In case of a monopoly insurer, exclusion of a provider changes the distribution of consumers who choose not to insure. Although the foreclosed care provider remains...
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consumption against idiosyncratic income fluctuations. We develop a consumption model in which the sharing of income risk is …
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a novel dataset, we document that this sell-off appears to have generated significant liquidity risk for market … actual downgrade and reversing sharply thereafter. We show that a measure of liquidity risk faced by corporate bond market … portion of this excess co-movement. Additional robustness checks suggest that this relationship between the liquidity risk …
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