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The effect of Kyoto emission targets on domestic CO2 emissions: A synthetic control approach

Almer, Christian; Winkler, Ralph - 2012

We use recent developments in the empirics of comparative case studies to analyze the effect of binding emission targets under the Kyoto Protocol on the development of CO2 emissions of seven major Annex B countries. In particular, we investigate whether committing to a specific greenhouse gas...

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Strategic behavior in IEAs: When and why countries joined the Kyoto Protocol

Almer, Christian; Winkler, Ralph - 2010

We empirically analyze the formation of international environmental agreements within a political economy framework. We develop a theoretical model of state dependent net benefits of ratification predicting (i) strategic behavior with respect to the timing of ratification and (ii) that...

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Global climate change and the funding of adaptation

Buob, Seraina; Stephan, Gunter - 2008

Mitigation and adaptation are the most important strategies in combating global climate change. It is expected that in a post Kyoto world industrialized countries have to engage in greenhouse gas abatement, and to support developing countries in adapting to climate change. Within the framework...

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Trading off generations: Infinitely-lived agent versus OLG

Schneider, Maik T.; Traeger, Christian; Winkler, Ralph - 2010

The prevailing literature discusses intergenerational trade-offs predominantly in infinitely-lived agent models despite the finite lifetime of individuals. We discuss these trade-offs in a continuous time OLG framework and relate the results to the infinitely-lived agent setting. We identify...

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Climate (change) and conflict: Resolving a puzzle of association and causation

Almer, Christian; Boes, Stefan - 2012

There is an ongoing discussion especially among political scientists and economists whether and how climate variability affects civil conflicts and wars in developing countries. Given the predicted climatic changes, several studies argue that increasing temperatures or decreasing precipitation...

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Responding to Threats of Climate Change Mega-Catastrophes

Kousky, Carolyn; Rostapshova, Olga; Toman, Michael; … - 2009

qualitative analysis of three options for mitigating the risk of climate mega-catastrophes—drastic abatement of greenhouse gas … the risk of climate change mega-catastrophes. …

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Climate Change in a Public Goods Game: Investment Decision in Mitigation versus Adaptation

Hasson, Reviva; Löfgren, Åsa; Visser, Martine - 2009

We use behavioral and experimental economics to study a particular aspect of the economics of climate change: the potential tradeoff between countries’ investments in mitigation versus adaptation. While mitigation of greenhouse gases can be viewed as a public good, adaptation to climate change...

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Farmers’ Adaptation to Climate Change: A Framed Field Experiment

Alpízar, Francisco; Carlsson, Fredrik; Naranjo, Maria A. - 2010

The risk of losing income and productive means due to adverse weather can differ significantly among farmers sharing a … baseline of high levels of risk aversion, we still found that farmers more frequently chose the safe options when the setting … is characterized by unknown risk (that is, poor or unreliable risk information). Second, we found that farmers, to a …

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Use of wood fuels from boreal forests will create a biofuel carbon debt with a long payback time

Holtsmark, Bjart - 2010

Owing to the extensive critique of food-crop-based biofuels, attention and hopes have turned toward second-generation wood-based biofuels. An important question is therefore whether wood from boreal forests could serve as a source for biofuels. However, in a typical boreal forest, it takes...

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Comparing the Clean Air Act and a Carbon Price

Richardson, Nathan; Fraas, Arthur G. - 2013

Over the last half decade, a variety of federal legislative proposals for limiting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have been put forward, most of which would set a price on carbon. As of early 2013, the one politically plausible policy appears to be a carbon tax, passed as part of a larger fiscal...

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