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Discounting and welfare analysis over time: choosing the [eta]
Buchholz, Wolfgang; Schumacher, Jan - 2008
Based on the Ramsey equation and an ethically motivated rejection of pure utility time discount, the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change concentrates on the use of the elasticity of marginal utility ç in the intergenerational social welfare function. We support this position by...
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Charging NOx emitters for health damages : an exploratory analysis
Mauzerall, Denise L.; Sultan, Babar; Kim, Namsoug; … - 2005
trade? approach to NOx regulation, which presumes that shifts of emissions over time and space, holding the total fixed over …
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Stranded Assets in the Transition to a Carbon-Free Economy
van der Ploeg, Rick - 2020
Assets in the fossil fuel industries are at risk of losing market value due to anticipated breakthroughs in renewable technology and governments stepping up climate policies in the light of the Paris commitments to limit global warming to 1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius. Stranded assets arise due to...
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The Risk of Policy Tipping and Stranded Carbon Assets
der Ploeg, Rick van - 2019
If global warming is to stay below 2°C, there are four risks of assets stranding. First, substantial fossil fuel reserves will be stranded at the end of the fossil era. Second, this will be true for exploration capital too. Third, unanticipated changes in present or expected future climate...
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Regulatory Barriers to Climate Action : Evidence from Conservation Areas in England
Fetzer, Thiemo - 2023
England may be responsible for up to 3.2 million tons of avoidable CO2 emissions annually. Using a suite of micro …
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One Size Does Not Fit All : TFP in the Aftermath of Financial Crises in Three European Countries
Abele, Christian; Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès; Fontagné, … - 2021
-13 on firm-level productivity in France, Italy and Spain. We show that relying on a single break date in 2008 misses both …-level productivity negatively, high-leverage firms suffer more from financial constraints only in Italy, when they are relatively small … productivity …
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Why Do Buyers Pay Different Prices for Comparable Products? Evidence from the Housing Market
Siebert, Ralph - 2020
We focus on the housing market and examine why nonlocal home buyers (NLBs) pay 15 percent more for houses than local home buyers (LBs). We estimate a housing demand model that returns heterogeneous willingness to pay parameters for housing attributes. Our results show that NLBs are willing to...
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Regulating national firms in a common market
Biancini, Sara - 2008
We consider the regulation of national firms in a common market. Regulators can influence the production of national …
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The demands for environmental regulation and for trade in the presence of private mitigation
Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - 2008
We study the nature of individual demands for environmental regulation and for trade openness in the general … respect to the stringency of regulation. Moreover, even though trade has the potential to benefit everyone, the poor may … oppose trade openness because of a concern that laxer environmental regulation will then be imposed in the interest of the …
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The political economy of regulatory risk
Strausz, Roland - 2010
This paper investigates political uncertainty as a source of regulatory risk. It shows that political parties have incentives to reduce regulatory risk actively: Mutually beneficial pre-electoral agreements that reduce regulatory risk always exist. Agreements that fully eliminate it exist when...
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