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Carbon dioxide emissions are a major force driving climate change. We construct scenarios of CO2 emissions from fossil …
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In an integrated economy-ecosystem model humans choose their land use and leave the residual land as habitat for three species forming a food chain. The size of habitat determines the diversity and abundance of species. That biodiversity generates, in turn, a flow of ecosystem services with...
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ecosystem prices guide the allocation in the economy and in the ecosystem, respectively. We distinguish the scenarios of an open … accessible habitat and a privately owned habitat. In both scenarios efficiency requires different corrective taxes/subsidies to …
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Petroleum administration can be regarded as a principal-agent problem. The government allocates exploration and production rights to petroleum companies on behalf of the population. The government is the principal and the companies are agents. With the aim of capturing revenue for the state, the...
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, sustaining only modest cuts in emissions. These results are unaffected by uncertainty about the impact of catastrophe. By … contrast, uncertainty about the catastrophic threshold typically causes coordination to collapse. Whether the probability …
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This paper deals with three aspects of spectacular oil price episodes such as the one witnessed in 2008. First, the concept of temporary explosiveness is proposed as an empirical method for capturing this type of behavior. The application of a recently proposed recursive unit root test shows...
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some recipients are exposed to uncertainty. Although, under certainty almost all uninvolved participants distribute … resources equally, they exhibit remarkable heterogeneity in just allocations under uncertainty. Moreover, uninvolved … participants allocate on average less to recipients exposed to higher degrees of uncertainty and allocations are correlated with …
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prices versus tradable quantities in terms of expected welfare, given uncertainty, optimal policy and endogenous cost …
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circulation model. It also features Epstein-Zin utility and uncertainty about climate sensitivity that resolves after some time …
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). Exogenous uncertainty over the size of the negotiated amount of water is introduced to capture the fact that water availability …
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