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Strategic campaigns and redistributive politics
Schultz, Christian - 2003
The paper investigates strategic campaigning in a model of redistributive politics in a society with many groups and two parties. Campaigns are informative, and parties can target campaigns to different groups. Voters are uncertain about whether parties fabor special groups. The parties will...
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Relative prices and climate policy : how the scarcity of non-market goods drives policy evaluation
Drupp, Moritz A.; Hänsel, Martin C. - 2020
Climate change not only impacts production and market consumption, but also the relative scarcity of non-market goods, such as environmental amenities. We study fundamental drivers of the resulting relative price changes, their potential magnitude, and their implications for climate policy in...
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Anarchy, efficiency, and redistribution
Bös, Dieter; Kolmar, Martin - 2000
The purpose of this paper is twofold. We first develop a contractarian theory of redistribution. The existence of rules … of redistribution is explained without any recourse to the risk-aversion of individuals. Hence, we depart from the … standard legitimization of redistribution as fundamental insurance and interpret it as stemming from a principle of reciprocity …
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Welfare stigma in the lab : evidence of social signaling
Friedrichsen, Jana; König, Tobias; Schmacker, Renke - 2017
Using a laboratory experiment, we present first evidence that stigmatization through public exposure causally reduces the take-up of an individually beneficial transfer. Our design exogenously varies the informativeness of the take-up decision by varying whether transfer eligibility is based on...
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Global demographic change and climate policies
Gerlagh, Reyer; Jaimes, Richard; Motavasseli, Ali - 2017
Between 1950 and 2017, world average life expectancy increased from below-50 to above-70, while the fertility rate dropped from 5 to about 2.5. We develop and calibrate an analytic climate-economy model with overlapping generations to study the effect of such demographic change on capital...
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Emission targets and coalition options for a small, ambitious country : an analysis of welfare costs and distributional impacts for Norway
Fæhn, Taran; Yonezawa, Hidemichi - 2021
We theoretically and numerically analyse the impacts for a small, open country with carbon abatement ambitions of joining a coalition with allowance trading. Besides welfare impacts for both the coalition and the small, open economy joining the coalition, we scrutinise how the studied policy...
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Are economists getting climate dynamics right and does it matter?
Dietz, Simon; Ploeg, Frederick van der; Rezai, Armon; … - 2020
We show that several of the most important economic models of climate change produce climate dynamics inconsistent with the current crop of models in climate science. First, most economic models exhibit far too long a delay between an impulse of CO2 emissions and warming. Second, few economic...
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Optimal climate policy as if the transition matters
Campiglio, Emanuele; Dietz, Simon; Venmans, Frank - 2022
The optimal transition to a low-carbon economy must account for adjustment costs in switching from dirty to clean capital, technological progress, and economic and climatic shocks. We study the low-carbon transition using a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with emissions abatement...
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Pigou's advice and Sisyphus' warning : carbon pricing with non-permanent carbon-dioxide removal
Kalkuhl, Matthias; Franks, Max; Gruner, Friedemann; … - 2022
Carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere is becoming an important option to achieve net zero climate targets. This paper develops a welfare and public economics perspective on optimal policies for carbon removal and storage in non-permanent sinks like forests, soil, oceans, wood products or...
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Pure redistribution and the provision of public goods
Sausgruber, Rupert; Tyran, Jean-Robert - In: Economics letters 95 (2007) 3, pp. 334-338
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