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Homepage, Levent Neyse; Brañas-Garza, Pablo - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

about how to make an accurate measurement in such a delicate task. Along this brief document we offer some concise guidance … of how to scan the hands using digital scanners and provide a comprehensive guideline to make a reliable measurement of … the 2D:4D. Furthermore, we point out the most common imaging and measurement errors. We also provide a number of hints …

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A framework for environmental policy evaluation in the South African mining sector

Thiele, Rainer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

This paper presents a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model for the analysis of environmental policies towards mining activities, and shows for the case of South Africa how it can be implemented numerically. The CGE model belongs to the class of static, trade-focussed models along the lines...

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Now or Never: Environmental Protection under Hyperbolic Discounting

Winkler, Ralph - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

The author analyzes the optimal investment in environmental protection in a model of an infinite series of non-overlapping hyperbolically discounting agents. He shows that without a commitment mechanism society is eventually stuck in a situation where all agents prefer further investment in the...

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Do Geographical Variations in Climate Influence Life Satisfaction?

Murray, Thomas; Maddison, David; Rehdanz, Katrin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

Accounting for socioeconomic and demographic variables as well as country specific effects, households’ willingness to pay for changes in climate is revealed using European data on reported life satisfaction. Individuals located in areas with lower average levels of sunshine and higher average...

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Economic Costs of Ocean Acidification: A Look into the Impacts on Shellfish Production

Narita, Daiju; Rehdanz, Katrin; Tol, Richard S.J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

Ocean acidification is increasingly recognized as a major global problem. Yet economic assessments of its effects are currently almost absent. Unlike most other marine organisms, mollusks, which have significant commercial value worldwide, have relatively solid scientific evidence of biological...

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Regional and sectoral estimates of the social cost of carbon: An application of FUND

Anthoff, David; Rose, Steven; Tol, Richard S. J.; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

The social cost of carbon is an estimate of the benefit of reducing CO2 emissions by one ton today. As such it is a key input into cost-benefit analysis of climate policy and regulation. We provide a set of new estimates of the social cost of carbon from the integrated assessment model FUND 3.5...

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Risk premia and the social cost of carbon: A review

Kousky, Carolyn; Kopp, Robert E.; Cooke, Roger - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions not only lowers expected damages from climate change but also reduces the risk of catastrophic impacts. However, estimates of the social cost of carbon, which measures the marginal value of carbon dioxide abatement, often do not capture this risk reduction...

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The influence of the specification of climate change damages on the social cost of carbon

Kopp, Robert E.; Golub, Alexander; Keohane, Nathaniel O.; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

Drawing upon climate change damage functions previously proposed in the literature that we have calibrated to a common level of damages at 2.5 C, we examine the effect upon the social cost of carbon (SCC) of varying the specification of damages in a DICE-like integrated assessment model. In the...

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The DART general equilibrium model: A technical description

Springer, Katrin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

This paper provides a technical description of the Dynamic Applied Regional Trade (DART) General Equilibrium Model. The DART model is a recursive dynamic, multi-region, multi-sector computable general equilibrium model. All regions are fully specified and linked by bilateral trade flows. The...

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Climate Change, Agricultural Production and Food Security: Evidence from Yemen

Breisinger, Clemens; Ecker, Olivier; Al-Riffai, Perrihan; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

This paper provides a model-based assessment of local and global climate change impacts for the case of Yemen, focusing on agricultural production, household incomes and food security. Global climate change is mainly transmitted through rising world food prices. Our simulation results suggest...

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