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We show that economies may exhibit a strong endogenous macroeconomic adaptation response to climate change. If climate change induces a structural change to the more productive sector, economies can benefit from climate change though productivities in both sectors are reduced. If climate change...
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We show that OPEC's market power contributes to global warming by enabling producers of relatively expensive and dirty … oil to start producing before OPEC reserves are depleted. We fully characterize the equilibrium of a cartel-fringe model …
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standard test levels. We find that OPEC exercised its market power during the sample period. Counterfactual experiments …
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nine major oil economies, six of which are current members of OPEC (Iran, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, and … OPEC members, which lie in the range of 45 to 125 years. For Indonesia, whose share of oil income in GDP has been declining …
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Natural resources account for 20% of world trade, and dominate the exports of many countries. Policy is used to manipulate both international and domestic prices of resources, yet this policy is largely outside the disciplines of the WTO. The instruments used include export taxes, price...
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standard test levels. We find that OPEC exercised its market power during the sample period. Counterfactual experiments …
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This paper highlights the potential for joint OECD (or non-OPEC) carbon taxes to reduce OPEC's monopoly rent and … provide benefit to non-OPEC countries provided jointly agreed trigger strategies are adhered to. In traditional economic … system. In this paper, we discuss a third benefit of carbon taxes: transferring rents from OPEC to the oil importing …
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This paper explores the impact of airport noise regulation on airline service quality and airfares. It also characterizes the socially optimal stringency of noise limits, taking both noise damage and the various costs borne by airlines and their passengers into account. The analysis also...
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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 η in the intergenerational social welfare function. We support this position by...
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Evaluation of climate policies and other issues requires a variable population setting where population is endogenously determined. We propose and axiomatize the rank-discounted critical-level utilitarian social welfare order. It is shown to fill out the space between critical-level...
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