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The risk of policy tipping and stranded carbon assets

Ploeg, Frederick van der; Rezai, Armon - 2019 - Revised July 2019

capitalization, exploration investment and discoveries. To explain and quantify these four effects, we use an analytical model of … investment in exploration capital with intertemporal adjustment costs, depletion of reserves and market capitalization, and …

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Prediction and identification in two-sided markets

Boik, Andre - 2018

answers and can be used to estimate market power and pass through rates. I show that even a naive one-sided model that ignores …

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Investment policy for time-inconsistent discounters

Harstad, Bård - 2013

This paper explores how a principal with time-inconsistent preferences invests optimally in technology or capital. If the current principal prefers her future self to save more, she can increase current investments complementary to future savings and decrease investments in the strategic...

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Externalities in risky resource markets : optimal taxes, leakage and divestment : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Energy and Climate Economics, October 2015

Habermacher, Florian - 2016

uncertain fuel market returns. Without uncertainty, the unilateral investment tax is welfare-neutral: costless but ineffective … divestment. With uncertainty, the regional investment choice affects global fuel usage, and correspondingly the optimal regional … fuel policy contains a investment tax in addition to taxes on deposit supply and consumption. Even absent terms …

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Predictability of asset returns and the efficient market hypothesis

Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2010

This paper is concerned with empirical and theoretical basis of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH). The paper begins with an overview of the statistical properties of asset returns at different frequencies (daily, weekly and monthly), and considers the evidence on return predictability, risk...

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Forging a global environmental agreement through trade sanctions on free riders?

Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2015

This paper studies the formation of self-enforcing global environmental agreements in a world economy with …

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Climate policies : a burden or a gain?

Bréchet, Thierry; Tulkens, Henry - 2013

That climate policies are costly is evident and therefore often creates major fears. But the alternative (no action) also has a cost. Mitigation costs and damages incurred depend on what the climate policies are; moreover, they are substitutes. This brings climate policies naturally in the realm...

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Economic analysis, sustainability and environmental commons

Musu, Ignazio - 2013

When confronted with market weaknesses and failures determining sustainability problems for environmental common-pool resources, economic analysis has proposed government intervention as the only alternative available. Elinor Ostrom showed that this dichotomy between market and government is not...

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The Hodrick-Prescott filter with a time-varying penalization parameter : an application for the trend estimation of global temperature

Blöchl, Andreas; Flaig, Gebhard - 2014

In this paper we use the Hodrick-Prescott filter for analysing global temperature data. We are especially concerned with a reliable estimation of the trend component at the end of the data sample. To this end we employ time-varying values for the penalization parameter. The optimal values are...

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The green paradox in open economies

Long, Ngo Van - 2014

This paper explains how, in the context of incomplete coordination among all countries, unilateral policies that might at first sight seem pro-green could actually turn out to harm the global environment. The free-riding motives and the difficulty of reaching an effective international...

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