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We show that economies may exhibit a strong endogenous macroeconomic adaptation response to climate change. If climate …
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mitigation and adaptation, carbon and solar geoengineering span the universe of possible climate policies. Their wildly different …
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of the life cycle. For mitigation and adaptation, we find that while these are overall clearly beneficial, they are also … worse outcomes, as it can lead to diminishing public support for the required mitigation and adaptation (as has arguably … been the case with globalization). Since there is also evidence that high human capital improves adaptation and mitigation …
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We propose a theory of climate-policy motivated foreign intervention to study different forms of international climate governance in the presence of power imbalance. Foreign countries have at least three options to intervene in another country's domestic climate policy: i.) Agreements with...
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This paper investigates the vulnerability of households to climatic disasters in the low-lying atoll nation of Tuvalu …
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climate change. This is despite substantial adaptation having taken place in general equilibrium through R&D and agricultural …
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preserve a greater quantity of biodiversity, thus decreasing the probability of a pandemic occurring, and second (mitigation … compare the mitigation efforts predicted by the model with those of the recent literature and we study the optimal prevention-mitigation …
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Existing climate-economy models use aggregate damage functions to model the effects of climate change. This approach assumes climate change has equal impacts on the productivity of firms that produce consumption and investment goods or services. We show the split between damage to consumption...
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The historical increase in emissions is for one-fourth attributable to the growth of emissions per person, whereas three-fourths are due to population growth. This striking evidence is not represented in the majority of climate-economic studies, which mostly neglect the environmental...
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We use theory and empirics to distinguish between the impact of temperature on transition (temporary) and steady state (permanent) growth in output per capita. Standard economic theory suggests that the long-run growth rate of output per capita is determined entirely by the growth rate of total...
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