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Natural Capital Considerations for an Extension of the U.S. Marine Economy Satellite Account
Wielgus, Jeffrey; Grasso, Mônica; Colgan, Charles S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In an effort to measure and track marine-dependent economic activities, the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has developed two statistical tools: The Economics: National Ocean Watch (ENOW) and the Marine Economy Satellite Account (MESA). In both efforts, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250126
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Are We Adapting to Climate Change?
Burke, Marshall; Zahid, Mustafa; Martins, Mariana C. M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study whether the sensitivity of economic, health, and livelihood outcomes to climate extremes has declined over the last half century, consistent with adaptation. Understanding whether such adaptation is already occurring is central to anticipating future climate damages, to calibrating the...
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Institutions, Comparative Advantage, and the Environment
Shapiro, Joseph S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper proposes that strong financial, judicial, and labor market institutions provide comparative advantage in clean industries, and thereby improve a country's environmental quality. Five complementary tests support this hypothesis. First, industries that depend on institutions are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421193
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Biodiversity Finance
Flammer, Caroline; Giroux, Thomas; Heal, Geoffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The use of private capital to finance biodiversity conservation and restoration is a new practice in sustainable finance. This study sheds light on this new practice. First, we provide a conceptual framework that lays out how biodiversity can be financed by i) pure private capital and ii)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247943
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Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel
Tella, Rafael Di - 2007
We study "habituation" to income and to status using individual panel data on the happiness of 7,812 people living in … Germany from 1984 to 2000. Specifically, we estimate a "happiness equation" defined over several lags of income and status and … compare the long run effects. We can (cannot) reject the hypothesis of no adaptation to income (status) during the four years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465494
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Workers and the Green-Energy Transition : Evidence from 300 Million Job Transitions
Curtis, E. Mark; O’Kane, Layla; Park, Jisung - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using micro-data representing over 130 million online work profiles, we explore transitions into and out of jobs most likely to be affected by a transition away from carbon-intensive production technologies. Exploiting detailed textual data on job title, firm name, occupation, and industry to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337776
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The Economics of Biodiversity Loss
Giglio, Stefano; Kuchler, Theresa; Stroebel, Johannes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We explore the economic effects of biodiversity loss by developing an ecologically-founded model that captures how different species interact to deliver the ecosystem services that complement other factors of economic production. Aggregate ecosystem services are produced by combining several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635641
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Population, Productivity, and Sustainable Consumption
Pindyck, Robert S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How does the sustainable level of consumption depend on productivity growth and the size and growth rate of the population? What is the effect of uncertainty over these growth rates? I address these questions using a model in which productivity and population growth are stochastic, and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210047
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Voluntary Emission Restraints in Developing Economies : The Role of Trade Policy
Caliendo, Lorenzo; Dolabella, Marcelo; Moreira, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study the role of trade policy in one of the most pressing climate policy challenges that developing countries face: meeting voluntary emission restraints (VERs). To do so, we develop a general equilibrium trade model that extends Caliendo and Parro (2015) in three dimensions. First, we model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544737
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The Macroeconomics of Intensive Agriculture
Boppart, Timo; Kiernan, Patrick; Krusell, Per; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
differences play a much more important role than agricultural TFP differences in explaining income differences …
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