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Drought and Civil War in Sub-Saharan Africa
Couttenier, Mathieu; Soubeyran, Raphael - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
In this paper, we show that drought has a positive effect on the incidence of civil war over the 1945-2005 period in … Sub-Saharan Africa. We use the Palmer Drought Severity Index which is a richer measurement of drought than the measures … than 42% from a “normal” climate to an “extremely drought” climate. Surprisingly, only 2.5% of this effect is channeled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008828408
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Accounting for Different Uncertainties: Implications for Climate Investments?
Hector, Svenja - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
The paper clarifies the link between changes in risk aversion and the effect on the consumption discount rate. In a general framework that can cope with various forms of uncertainty, it is shown that the response of the consumption discount rate to a change in risk aversion depends on some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904906
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Climate Change and Adaptation: The Case of Nigerian Agriculture
Bosello, Francesco; Campagnolo, Lorenza; Eboli, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
The present research offers an economic assessment of climate change impacts on the four major crop families characterizing Nigerian agriculture, covering more than 80% of agricultural value added. The evaluation is performed shocking land productivity in a computable general equilibrium model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904911
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Leadership and International Climate Cooperation
Schwerhoff, Gregor - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
Which kind of reaction can a nation or group of nations expect when leading by example in climate policy? This literature survey describes possible positive reaction mechanisms from different fields of economics, some of which have scarcely been linked to climate economics previously. One effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904926
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Innovation Complementarity and Environmental Productivity Effects: Reality or Delusion? Evidence from the EU
Gilli, Marianna; Mancinelli, Susanna; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
Innovation is a key element behind the achievement of desired environmental and economic performances. Regarding CO2, mitigation strategies would require cuts in emissions of around 80-90% with respect to 1990. We investigate whether complementarity, namely integration, between the adoption of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904932
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Sharing of Climate Risks across World Regions
Emmerling, Johannes - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
Uncertainty is prevalent in the context of climate change impacts. Moreover, the distribution across the globe is not uniform. We analyze how climate risks could be reduced via an insurance scheme at the global scale across regions and quantify the potential welfare gains from such a scheme....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941054
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Luring Others into Climate Action: Coalition Formation Games with Threshold and Spillover Effects
Bosetti, Valentina; Heugues, Melanie; Tavoni, Alessandro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015
We study the effect of leadership in an experimental threshold public ‘bad’ game, where we manipulate both the relative returns of two investments (the more productive of which causes a negative externality) and the extent to which the gains from leadership diffuse to the group. The game...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268585
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Governance and Environmental Policy Integration in Europe: What Can We learn from the EU Emission Trading Scheme?
Catenacci, Michela; Buchner, Barbara; Sgobbi, Alessandra - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007
The European Union Emission Trading System (EU ETS) is a landmark environmental policy, representing the world’s first large-scale greenhouse gas (GHG) trading program. The coexistence of state actors and top-down processes with stakeholders participation and flexible abatement strategies make...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385382
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Klum@Gtap: Introducing Biophysical Aspects of Land-Use Decisions Into a General Equilibrium Model A Coupling Experiment
Ronneberger, Kerstin; Berrittella, Maria; Bosello, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
In this paper the global agricultural land use model KLUM is coupled to an extended version of the computable general equilibrium model (CGE) GTAP in order to consistently assess the integrated impacts of climate change on global cropland allocation and its implication for economic development....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385399
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The Kyoto Protocol and the Effect of Existing and Planned Measures in the Agricultural and Forestry Sector in the EU25
Giupponi, Carlo; Bosello, Francesco; Buchner, Barbara; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007
Agricultural and forestry activities cover the majority of the EU territory: in particular agriculture is the main lad use type, accounting for more than 41% of the land use in the EU15, while in the new Member States this share ranges between 30 and 60 %, whereas forestry is the second. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385472