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What Role for Trade in a Post 2012 Global Climate Policy Regime
Whalley, John - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This paper discusses the role that trade can potentially play in both negotiating and operating a post Kyoto/post 2012 global climate policy regime. As an addition to the bargaining set for a global climate negotiation, trade in principle widens the range of jointly beneficial potential outcomes...
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Embodied Carbon Tariffs
Rutherford, Thomas F.; Böhringer, Christoph; Carbone, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
In a world where the prospects of a global agreement to control greenhouse gas emissions are bleak, the idea of using … policy to the developing world. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009277238
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China's Participation in Global Environmental Negotiations
Whalley, John; Tian, Huifang - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
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 largest and most rapidly growing carbon emitter, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005580273
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Cross Country Fairness Considerations and Country Implications of Alternative Approaches to a Global Emission Reduction Regime
Whalley, John; Tian, Huifang; Shi, Xiaojun - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
justices formulations. One is equal per capita allocation of absorptive capacity of the atmosphere given a temperature change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010578386
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Feeling the Heat: Temperature, Physiology & the Wealth of Nations
Heal, Geoffrey; Park, Jisung - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Does temperature affect economic performance? Has temperature always affected social welfare through its impact on … medical literature documenting the temperature sensitivity of human task performance. This paper attempts a synthesis of these … on temperature and income (1950-2005) to illustrate the potential magnitude of temperature- driven productivity impacts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821681
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Climatic Fluctuations and the Diffusion of Agriculture
Ashraf, Quamrul; Michalopoulos, Stelios - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This research examines the climatic origins of the diffusion of Neolithic agriculture across countries and archaeological sites. The theory suggests that a foraging society s history of climatic shocks shaped the timing of its adoption of farming. Specifically, as long as climatic disturbances...
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Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on Crop Yields: The Importance of Nonlinear Temperature Effects
Schlenker, Wolfram; Roberts, Michael J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
The United States produces 41% of the world's corn and 38% of the world's soybeans, so any impact on US crop yields … will have implications for world food supply. We pair a panel of county-level crop yields in the US with a fine …-scale weather data set that incorporates the whole distribution of temperatures between the minimum and maximum within each day and …
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Dynamic Olley-Pakes Productivity Decomposition with Entry and Exit
Melitz, Marc J.; Polanec, Sašo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
In this paper, we propose an extension of the productivity decomposition method developed by Olley & Pakes (1996). This extension provides an accounting for the contributions of both firm entry and exit to aggregate productivity changes. It breaks down the contribution of surviving firms into a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969280
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The Data Revolution and Economic Analysis
Levin, Jonathan; Einav, Liran - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Many believe that "big data" will transform business, government and other aspects of the economy. In this article we discuss how new data may impact economic policy and economic research. Large-scale administrative datasets and proprietary private sector data can greatly improve the way we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969342
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Causal Analysis after Haavelmo
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Haavelmo's seminal 1943 paper is the first rigorous treatment of causality. In it, he distinguished the definition of causal parameters from their identification. He showed that causal parameters are defined using hypothetical models that assign variation to some of the inputs determining...
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