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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 estimated by pooling observations from all scenarios and compared with the …
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Modelling Energy Demand and Household Welfare Using Micro-Data
Baker, Paul; Blundell, Richard William; Micklewright, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987
The paper is concerned with the empirical modelling of domestic demand for energy in the United Kingdom at the level of …-stage budgeting model of the household's demand for energy conditional on its ownership of durables. Preferences at both stages of the … data has not been fully exploited in the analysis of energy demand to date. Unrestricted reduced-form estimates are …
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Efficiency and Equity Effects of Taxing the Financial Sector: Lessons from a CGE Model for Belgium
Chisari, Omar; Estache, Antonio; Nicodème, Gaëtan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper assesses the effects of applying VAT or a sales tax on (intermediate or final) sales of the financial sector. It uses a CGE Model calibrated for a small open economy. It highlights the differentiated sectoral and redistributional effects of these taxes and shows the importance of the...
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On the Nature, Modeling, and Neural Bases of Social Ties
Ridderinkhof, Richard; Stallen, Mirre; Winden, Frans … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper addresses the nature, formalization, and neural bases of (affective) social ties and discusses the relevance of ties for health economics. A social tie is defined as an affective weight attached by an individual to the well-being of another individual (‘utility interdependence’)....
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Trade and Climate Change: The Challenges Ahead
de Melo, Jaime; Mathys, Nicole Andréa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
, especially if efforts are undertaken to raise the price of energy. A discussion of border measures to complement mitigation …
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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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On the Spatial Economic Impact of Global Warming
Desmet, Klaus; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
firms locate on a hemisphere. Trade across locations is costly, firms innovate, and technology diffuses over space. Energy … impact of migration and trade restrictions, energy taxes, and innovation subsidies. …
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The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics
Burgess, Robin; Hansen, Matthew; Olken, Benjamin; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Tropical deforestation accounts for almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and threatens the world's most diverse ecosystems. The prevalence of illegal forest extraction in the tropics suggests that understanding the incentives of local bureaucrats and politicians who enforce...
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Environmental Policy and Directed Technical Change in a Global Economy: The Dynamic Impact of Unilateral Environmental Policies
Hemous, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper builds a two-country (North, South), two-sector (polluting, nonpolluting) trade model with directed technical change, examining whether unilateral environmental policies can ensure sustainable growth. The polluting good is produced with a clean and a dirty input. I show that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084402
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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...
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