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, fuel economy standards for automobiles, renewable portfolio standards, low carbon fuel standards, and--most recently--China … substantial gains could arise from shifting two programs, China's new national carbon market (~60% gain) and the California Low …
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China urbanization is associated with both increases in per-capita income and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper uses … suggests that current regional economic development policies that bolster the growth of China's northeastern cities are likely … China's cities …
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Large population / rapidly growing economies such as China and India have argued that in the upcoming UNFCCC …
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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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In the paper we discuss China's participation in both the 2009 Copenhagen negotiations on a post-Kyoto global climate … change regime currently under way and out beyond Copenhagen in further negotiations likely to follow. China is now both the …. In the Copenhagen negotiation, there will be strong pressure on China to take on emissions reduction commitments and …
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China's recently launched CO2 emissions trading system, already the world's largest, aims to contribute importantly … structure and results from a multi-sector, multi-period equilibrium model tailored to evaluate China's TPS. The model … incorporates distinctive features of China's economy, including state-owned enterprises and electricity market regulation. It …
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This paper uses a field experiment to estimate behavioral parameters from a structural model of residential adoption of technology. As our model includes both economic and psychological factors, we are able to identify the role of prices, social norms, social pressure, and curiosity on the...
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We propose a way to formalize the relationship between descriptive analysis and structural estimation. A researcher reports an estimate ĉ of a structural quantity of interest c that is valid under some models. The researcher also reports descriptive statistics γ̂ that estimate features γ of...
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This essay reviews progress in empirical economics since Leamer's (1983) critique. Leamer highlighted the benefits of sensitivity analysis, a procedure in which researchers show how their results change with changes in specification or functional form. Sensitivity analysis has had a salutary but...
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This paper compares the economic questions addressed by instrumental variables estimators with those addressed by structural approaches. We discuss Marschak's Maxim: estimators should be selected on the basis of their ability to answer well-posed economic problems with minimal assumptions. A key...
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