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China’s CO2 Emissions from Power Generating Stations – A First Exploration

Du, Limin; Hanley, Aoife; Rehdanz, Katrin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

Our analysis is the first of its kind to explore patterns of subsidization and CO2 emissions in China’s electricity producing sector. Applying data for all power plants across China and controlling for the age, capacity and location of generating stations, we find that plants attracting a...

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Environmental impact of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games

Huijuan, Cao; Fujii, Hidemichi; Managi, Shunsuke - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Beijing organized the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, and the main goal of the Chinese government regarding this event was to hold a Green Olympics. A difference-in-differences approach was used to estimate the environmental impact the Olympic Games on air quality improvement in Beijing, compared to...

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On the Environmental Effectiveness of the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive

Bertram, Christine; Rehdanz, Katrin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

Marine and coastal ecosystems – and thus the benefits they create for humans – are subject to increasing pressures and competing usages. For this reason, the European Union (EU) adopted the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), which is to guide future maritime policy in the EU and...

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The social cost of atmospheric release

Shindell, Drew T. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

The author presents a multi-impact economic valuation framework called the Social Cost of Atmospheric Release (SCAR) that extends the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) used previously for carbon dioxide (CO2) to a broader range of pollutants and impacts. Values consistently incorporate health and...

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Validity of WTP Measures under Preference Uncertainty

Kniebes, Carola; Rehdanz, Katrin; Schmidt, Ulrich - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

This paper establishes a new method for eliciting Willingness to Pay (WTP) in contingent valuation (CV) studies with an open-ended elicitation format: the Range-WTP method. In contrast to the traditional approach for eliciting Point-WTP, Range-WTP explicitly allows for preference uncertainty in...

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Shocks, income diversification and welfare in developing and transition countries

Omar Mahmoud, Toman - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

This dissertation takes a welfare perspective to analyze how rural households in developing countries manage risks ex …-sex children from the detrimental effects of orphanhood, suggesting that risks are not equally shared within households. The second … strategies to cope with shocks and reduce their exposure to risks. While these strategies help households to temporarily smooth …

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