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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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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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climate change. This is despite substantial adaptation having taken place in general equilibrium through R&D and agricultural …
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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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This paper highlights the severity of China’s AD problems, and high concentration of AD actions taken by the top … initiators, noting that China can offer a higher level of economic integration in an RTA in exchange for improved regional AD … RTAs on mitigating China’s AD problems suggests that China could become more active in mitigating AD problems by RTA …
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This paper examines the relationship between the logarithms of CO2 emissions and real GDP in China by applying …
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We estimate the impact of local mining activity on the business constraints experienced by 22,150 firms across eight resource-rich countries. We find that with the presence of active mines, the business environment in the immediate vicinity (20 km) of a firm deteriorates but business constraints...
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