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Russia's food security and climate change: Looking into the future
Kiselev, Sergey; Romashkin, Roman; Nelson, Gerald C.; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
Global climate change presents long-term risks to agriculture. In general, global climate change is expected to … positively affect Russian agriculture. In high and middle latitudes, global warming would expand the growing season. Acreages of … production in the Russian Federation. It also considers adaptive measures for agriculture in response to climate change. …
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Learning by Exporting: Does It Matter Where One Learns?
Trofimenko, Natalia - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2005
Learning-by-exporting proponents argue that exporting increases productivity by exposing producers to new technologies or through product quality upgrading. This study is based on the observation that the technological superiority and severity of product quality requirements are not the same in...
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Investing in European Stock Markets for High-Technology Firms
Pierdzioch, Christian; Schertler, Andrea - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006
We used a recursive modeling approach to study whether investors could, in real time, have used information on the comovement of stock markets to forecast stock returns in European stock markets for high-technology firms. We used weekly data on returns in the Neuer Markt, the Nouveau Marché,...
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A counterfactual decomposition analysis of immigrants-natives earnings in Malaysia
Anees, Muhammad; Sajjad, Muhammad; Ahmed, Ishfaq - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
Economics of discrimination has been the topic of interest of many in the last decade or two. Human capital theory describes wage determination as a function of labour human capital and should be determined based on marginal productivity theorem of labour economics. Islamic theology also...
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Including Maritime Transport in the EU´s Climate Change Policy: Country-Based Allocation and Effects
Heitmann, Nadine - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
The European Union (EU) is actively campaigning for the global regulation of carbon emissions generated by maritime bunker fuels because these emissions are presently barely regulated and are projected to increase significantly in the coming decades. However, since a global regulation has not...
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The Potential Contribution of the Shipping Sector to an Efficient Reduction of Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Heitmann, Nadine; Peterson, Sonja - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
In this paper, we analyze how much the shipping sector could contribute to global CO2 emission reductions from an efficiency point of view. To do this, a marginal abatement cost curve (MACC) for the shipping sector is generated that can be combined with a MACC for conventional CO2 abatement in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886913
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Informed and Uninformed Opinions on New Measures to Address Climate Change
Kniebes, Carola; Merk, Christine; Pönitzsch, Gert; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
Climate engineering (CE) and carbon capture and storage sub-seabed (CCS-S) are currently controversially debated options to address climate change. Our paper provides empirical evidence on the public perception of two different CE measures, namely, stratospheric sulphate injection (SSI) and...
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Estimating the impact of climate change on agricultural production: accounting for technology heterogeneity across countries
Exenberger, Andreas; Pondorfer, Andreas; Wolters, Maik - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
frequency of droughts. The latter two effects are particularly strong in Sub-Sahara Africa where low-tech rain-fed agriculture …
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Who bears the costs of climate change? Evidence from Tunisia
Wiebelt, Manfred; Al-Raffai, Perrihan; Breisinger, Clemens - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
In order to estimate the economic costs of climate change for Tunisia, this paper uses a combination of biophysical and economic models. In addition, the paper draws on the literature to complement the quantitative analysis with policy recommendations on how to adapt to the changing climate. The...
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Uncertainty and economic analysis of climate change : a survey of approaches and findings
Peterson, Sonja - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006
The analysis of climate change is confronted with large uncertainties that need to be taken into account to arrive at meaningful policy recommendations. The main contribution of economics to this interdisciplinary task is to provide formal frameworks and techniques for analyzing climate policy...
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