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Allocating Risks in a Domestic Greenhouse Gas Trading System

Kerr, Suzi - EconWPA - 2003

strategic incentives for either government or regulated entities. Consideration of both exogenous risk (uncontrollable) and … endogenous risk (concerns about policy credibility) suggests that permits should be auctioned several years in advance of use … all risk to be pooled and managed as efficiently as possible within the private sector. For endogenous risk, it creates a …

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The Transition to Agriculture: Climate Reversals, Population Density, and Technical Change

Dow, Gregory K.; Olewiler, Nancy; Reed, Clyde G. - EconWPA - 2005

Until about 13,000 years ago all humans obtained their food through hunting and gathering, but thereafter people in some parts of the world began a transition to agriculture. Recent data strongly implicate climate change as the driving force behind the agricultural transition in southwest Asia....

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Carbon Dynamics and Land-use Choices: Building a Regional-scale Multidisciplinary Model

Kerr, Suzi; Liu, Shuguang; Pfaff, Alexander; Hughes, Flint - EconWPA - 2003

Policy enabling tropical forests to approach their potential contribution to global-climate-change mitigation requires forecasts of land use and carbon storage on a large scale over long periods. In this paper, we present an integrated modeling methodology that addresses these needs. We model...

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Climate change: the global public good

Grasso, Marco - EconWPA - 2004

Climate change is the exemplary global public good, because each country’s emissions of greenhouse gases contribute cumulatively to the increase of the overall concentration, and each country’s abatements entail higher cost than benefit, unless effective concerted collective actions take...

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A normative framework of justice in climate change

Grasso, Marco - EconWPA - 2004

The more the various dimensions of climate change are just, the more an international agreement is in principle attainable. That is the reason why justice plays a major role in favouring collective action against global warming. In this article I spell out the dominant notions of justice and the...

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Public-Good Productivity Differentials and Non-Cooperative Public-Good Provision

Ley, Eduardo - EconWPA - 1996

We explore the generality of Konrad and Lommerud (1995)'s Rotten Spouse Theorem. While the result holds for an arbitrary number of agents, it fails to hold for general technologies. We discuss some of the implications for CO2-emissions models.

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The likely regional impacts of an agricultural emissions policy in New Zealand: Preliminary analysis

Sin, Isabelle; Brunton, Emma; Hendy, Joanna; Kerr, Suzi - EconWPA - 2005

Hendy and Kerr (2005b) find that an emissions charge on agricultural methane and nitrous oxide of $25 per tonne of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent would be likely to reduce New Zealand’s net land-use related emissions for commitment period one in the order of 3%, with full accounting. The...

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TRUST OF MODERNITY, MODERNITY OF TRUST. CONSIDERATIONS AND RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS

CONTE, MASSIMO - EconWPA - 2005

NEED TO RECONSIDER OUR ACTIONS/DECISIONS WITH RISK AND TROUBLES, SO 'TRUSTING' IS GOING TO HAVE AN IMPORTANT ROLE AS … AND WE WONT TO AVOID THE RISK OF BEING DECEIVED. THESE SOCIAL INTERACTIONS ARE PRECONDITIONS THAT HAVE MANY CONSEQUENCES …

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The Varieties of Subjectivism: Keynes and Hayek on Expectations

Butos, William N.; Koppl, Roger G. - EconWPA - 1995

issues of time and uncertainty in economics. The source of the difference between their economic ideas was the difference …

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A More Realistic Endogenous Time Preference Model and the Slump in Japan

Harashima, Taiji - EconWPA - 2004

This paper presents a more realistic endogenous time preference model, incorporating the property that impatience decreases as consumption increases. The model overcomes a serious drawback of the existing model, which needs the assumption of increasing impatience. The new model is applied to the...

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