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Will Skycrapers Save the Planet? Building Height Limits and Urban Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Borck, Rainald - 2021

This paper studies the effectiveness of building height limits as a policy to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It shows that building height limits lead to urban sprawl and higher emissions from commuting. On the other hand, aggregate housing consumption may decrease which reduces emissions...

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Centralized Fiscal Spending by Supranational Unions

Simon, Jenny - 2013

We study fiscal spending by supranational unions, where participation is voluntary and countries bargain over contributions to and the allocation of a central budget. We explore the link between the allocation and nations' contributions that occurs since bargaining power is endogenous, and...

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Productive Government Expenditure and Economic Growth

Irmen, Andreas; Kuehnel, Johanna - 2021

We provide a comprehensive survey of the recent literature on the link between productive government expenditure and economic growth. Starting with the seminal paper of Robert Barro (1990) we show that an understanding of the core results of the ensuing contributions can be gained from the study...

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Habit Formation, Strategic Extremism and Debt Policy

Matsen, Egil; Thogersen, Oystein - 2021

We suggest a probabilistic voting model where voters' preferences for alternative public goods display habit formation. Current policies determine habit levels and in turn the future preferences of the voters. This allows the incumbent to act strategically in order to influence the probability...

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Carbon Emissions Scenarios in Europe Based on an Endogenous Growth Model

Ciesielski, Anna - 2014

Carbon dioxide emissions are a major force driving climate change. We construct scenarios of CO2 emissions from fossil energy until 2100 in Europe. Major innovations are first that economic growth is based on an endogenous economic growth model and second that we calibrate our model to...

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Vertical Fiscal Externalities and the Environment

Böhringer, Christoph - 2014

We show that imposition of a state-level environmental tax in a federation crowds out preexisting federal taxes. We explain how this vertical fiscal externality can lead unilateral state-level environmental policy to generate a welfare gain in the implementing state, at the expense of other...

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Kyoto and Carbon Leakage : An Empirical Analysis of the Carbon Content of Bilateral Trade

Aichele, Rahel; Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2021

Has the Kyoto Protocol induced carbon leakage? We conduct the first empirical ex-post evaluation of the Protocol. We derive a theoretical gravity equation for the CO2 content of trade, which accounts for intermediate inputs, both domestic and imported. The structure of our new panel database of...

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On International Equity Weights and National Decision Making on Climate Change

Anthoff, David; Tol, Richard S. J. - 2021

Estimates of the marginal damage costs of carbon dioxide emissions require the aggregation of monetised impacts of climate change over people with different incomes and in different jurisdictions. Implicitly or explicitly, such estimates assume a social welfare function and hence a particular...

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Improving Global Public Goods Supply through Conditional Transfers - The International Adaptation Transfer Riddle

Pittel, Karen - 2013

In order to overcome the underprovision of global public goods various different policy approaches have been proposed. In the climate policy arena, international transfers are frequently seen as an effective means to raise the provision of the global public good ‘climate change mitigation'....

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Making World Heritage Truly Global : The Culture Certificate Scheme

Frey, Bruno S. - 2014

Culture has attributes of a global public good that needs to be preserved for mankind as a whole. World Culture … Certificates are proposed to efficiently preserve World Heritage. The community of nations has to agree on the Global Heritage List … and how much each nation is to contribute to that purpose. Each World Heritage site conserved is acknowledged through the …

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