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Sinking land : Optimal control of subsidence

Sen, Suphi; Verhoeven, Dewy; Weikard, Hans-Peter - 2023

Land subsidence threatens the living conditions of roughly 1.2 billion people worldwide in deltaic regions characterized by soft top soil. Economic activity in deltaic regions requires lowering the groundwater levels to keep the land sufficiently dry to maintain productivity, which, however,...

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Using degree days to value farmland

Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, Robert O.; … - 2014

Farmland values have traditionally been valued using seasonal temperature and precipitation. A new strand of the literature uses degree days over the growing season to predict farmland value. We find that degree days and daily temperature are interchangeable over the growing season. However, the...

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The optimal climate policy portfolio when knowledge spills across sectors

Massetti, Emanuele; Nicita, Lea - 2010

This paper studies the implications for climate policy of the interactions between environmental and knowledge externalities. Using a numerical analysis performed with the hybrid integrated assessment model WITCH, extended to include mutual spillovers between the energy and the non-energy...

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Refunding emission payments : output-based versus expenditure-based refunding

Hagem, Cathrine; Hoel, Michael Olaf; Sterner, Thomas - 2020

We analyse two mechanism designs for refunding emission payments to polluting firms: output-based refunding (OBR) and expenditure-based refunding (EBR). In both instruments, emission fees are returned to the polluting industry, typically making the policy more politically acceptable than a...

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Measuring the integration of staple food markets in Sub-Saharan Africa : heterogeneous infrastructure and cross border trade in the East African community

Ihle, Rico; Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan von; Zorya, Sergiy I. - 2011

market is isolated from the rest of East Africa and internally fragmented. -- border effect ; spatial market integration …

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The power of markets : impact of desert locust invasions on child health

Conte, Bruno; Piemontese, Lavinia; Tapsoba, Augustin - 2021

This paper investigates the consequences of a locust plague that occurred in Mali in 2004. We argue that in agricultural economies with a single harvest per year, this type of shock can affect households through two channels: first, a speculative/anticipatory effect that kicks in during the...

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Did the renewable fuel standard shift market expectations of the price of ethanol?

Baumeister, Christiane; Ellwanger, Reinhard; Kilian, Lutz - 2016

biofuel policies operates in part through market expectations and shifts in storage demand, yet to date it has proved … estimate the market's expectations of the prices of ethanol, unfinished motor gasoline and crude oil at horizons from three … months to one year. We quantify the extent to which price changes were anticipated by the market, the extent to which they …

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A tale of two roads : groundwater depletion in the North China Plain

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Deng, Xiangzheng; Gong, Yazhen; … - 2023

There is a large literature on the role infrastructure plays in economic development, but few papers document the causal effect of infrastructure on the sustainability of natural resources. We examine the effect of the arrival of two new national highways on ground water levels in a small...

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Coerced labor in the cotton sector : how global commodity prices (don't) transmit to the poor

Danzer, Alexander M.; Grundke, Robert - 2016 - This Version: May 2016

's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 … demand and wages for cotton pickers; however, the price hike benefits only workers on entrepreneurial private farms, whereas …

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Oil wealth and property rights

De Soysa, Indra; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2020

1960 and 2014. We find that higher levels of oil wealth result in weaker private property rights. This result is robust to …

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