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The world has pledged to protect 30 percent of its land and waters by 2030 to halt the rapid deterioration of critical … econometric advancements, shifting focus to direct measures of biodiversity, filling the knowledge gap on the effect of protected …
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constrained economic choices? We assess the quantitative role of geography and land quality for agricultural productivity … provide in each cell of land covering the entire globe actual yields of cultivated crops and potential yields for 18 crops … level of cultivation inputs. While there is considerable heterogeneity in land quality across space, even within narrow …
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series on wage/rental ratios, land/labor ratios, the terms of trade, and other explanatory variables for: Argentina, Burma …
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This paper considers the question of under what circumstances a new environmental regulation should "phase in" gradually over time, rather than being immediately implemented at full force. The paper focuses particularly on climate policy, though its insights are more general. It shows that while...
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This paper presents both analytics and numerical simulation results relevant to proposals for carbon motivated regional trade agreements summarized in Dong & Whalley(2008). Unlike traditional regional trade agreements, by lowing tariffs on participant's low carbon emission goods and setting...
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Instead of efficiently pricing greenhouse gases, policy makers have favored measures that implicitly or explicitly subsidize low carbon fuels. We simulate a transportation-sector cap & trade program (CAT) and three policies currently in use: ethanol subsidies, a renewable fuel standard (RFS),...
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This paper discusses contributions that industrial organization economists have made to our understanding of energy markets and environmental regulation. We emphasize the substantive contributions of recent papers while also highlighting how this literature has adopted and sometimes augmented...
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Electric vehicles are declining in cost so rapidly that they may claim a large share of the vehicle market by 2030. This paper examines a set of practical regulatory design considerations for fuel-economy standards or greenhouse gas standards in the context of highly uncertain electric vehicle...
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