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This research explores the origins of loss aversion and the variation in its prevalence across regions, nations and ethnic group. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the evolution of loss aversion in the course of human history can be traced to the adaptation of...
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variability in the weather and the increase in the number of extreme weather disasters associated with climate change. The …Extreme weather induced migration is a growing concern for low and middle income countries due to the increased … objective of this paper is to examine the inter-linkages between weather, disasters, and migration, in India. To examine the …
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I propose a new conceptual framework to disentangle the impacts of weather and climate on economic activity and growth …: A stochastic frontier model with climate in the production frontier and weather shocks as a source of inefficiency. I … variability. The climate effect is larger that the weather effect. …
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There is limited public discourse and understanding about the history and science of weather and climate intervention … climate intervention with the aim of answering the question: Why aren't more economists interested in evaluating weather and …, though scientists have researched, tested and implemented numerous methods of weather modification for six decades. Also …
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This paper evaluates the relative importance of natural and human factors in shaping public awareness of climate change … environmental activists, in forecasting the salience of climate change topic over weekly and annual horizons using regional European … countries' data. The salience of climate change is proxied by the Google search intensity data. The activists' movements are …
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Observers repeatedly predict that climate change will lead and is already causing massive migration with very large … numbers of people forced to leave their homes in cataclysmic waves of climate refugees. Yet, most of the empirical research on … the contemporary link between climate change and migration fails to find much evidence of this migration. As climate …
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We provide ex-post empirical analysis of the effects of climate policies on carbon dioxide emissions at the aggregate … national level. Our results are based on a comprehensive database of 121 countries. As climate policies we examine carbon taxes … and emissions trading systems (ETS), as well as the overall stringency of climate policies. We use dynamic panel …
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We introduce a "smart" cap and trade system that eliminates the welfare costs of asymmetric information (“uncertainty”). This cap responds endogenously to technology or macroeconomic shocks, relying on the market price of certificates to aggregate information. It allows policy makers to...
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"Prices versus quantities" (Weitzman 1974), a hugely influential paper, is widely cited (and taught) in current debates about the best policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The paper's criterion for ranking policies suggests that technological uncertainty favors taxes over cap and trade....
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other climate policies, on carbon dioxide emissions at the aggregate national level. The paper uses cross-country dynamic …
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