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Fiscal policy response of local governments to floods in Italy
Lodi, Chiara; Marin, Giovanni; Modica, Marco - 2022
This paper aims at empirically testing the dynamics of budget outcomes of Italian municipalities in the aftermath of floods, by accounting for heterogeneous levels of resilience and vulnerability to natural disasters. Our findings, based on a dynamic difference-in-difference after propensity...
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An Exploration of the Link between Development, Economic Growth, and Natural Risk
Hallegatte, S. - 2013
This paper investigates the link between development, economic growth, and the economic losses from natural disasters in a normative analytical framework, with an illustration on hurricane flood risks in New Orleans. It concludes that, where capital accumulates through increased density of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083303
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Interactions between State and Federal Climate Change Policies
Goulder, Lawrence H. - 2010
Federal action addressing climate change is likely to emerge either through new legislation or via the U.S. EPA's authority under the Clean Air Act. The prospect of federal action raises important questions regarding the interconnections between federal efforts and state-level climate policy...
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A Tale of Two Countries : Emissions Scenarios for China and India
Massetti, Emanuele - 2011
The aim of the paper is to present evidence that China and India are, and will remain, two very different actors in … energy use and in energy supply and to assess the possible contribution of China and India to a future international climate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128326
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Breaking the Impasse in International Climate Negotiations : A New Direction for Currently Flawed Negotiations and a Roadmap for China to 2050
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2011
China's unilateral pledge to cut its carbon intensity by 40-45 percent by 2020 relative to its 2005 levels raises both … the stringency issue, and given that China's pledge is in the form of carbon intensity, reliability issues concerning … China's statistics on energy and GDP. Moreover, as long as China's commitments differ in form from those of other major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123268
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Carbon-Based Border Tax Adjustments and China's International Trade : Analysis Based on a Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Model
Tang, Ling - 2013
With large shares in global trade and carbon emissions, China's international trade is supposed to be significantly … and EU on China's international trade, based on a multi-sector dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. The … simulation results suggest that BTAs would have a negative impact on China's international trade in terms of large losses in both …
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Who Should Bear the Cost of China’s Carbon Emissions Embodied in Goods for Exports?
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2013
China's capital-intensive, export-oriented, spectacular economic growth since launching its open-door policy and … in China's trade differ, both single country studies for China and global studies show a hefty chunk of China's CO2 … emissions embedded in trade. This portion of CO2 emissions had helped to turn China into the world's largest carbon emitter, and …
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Making China the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy : Key Challenges and Responses
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2016
China has realized that for its own sake and from the international community's perspective, it cannot afford to … development. Specifically, to meet the grand goal involves not only capping China's nationwide coal consumption to let it peak … arguing why China's anti-pollution outcomes this time might be different from the previous ones …
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How Do Regional Interactions in Space Affect China's Mitigation Targets and Economic Development?
Wang, Lu - 2017
China is faced with the big challenge of maintaining a remarkable economic growth in an environmental friendly manner … find that difference in emissions between regions is narrowed but gap within the Western China is sharply expanding. Then … of 29 provinces ranging from 1995 to 2011. Results show that the peak of per capita carbon dioxide emissions in China …
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What Factors Affect the Competiveness of Power Generation Sector in China? An Analysis Based on Game Cross-Efficiency
Xie, Bai-Chen - 2017
China's unbundling reform in 2002 aimed to introduce competitiveness into the power industry, especially the generation … China's 30 provinces. It then employs a system generalized method of moments model to explore the determinants of their …
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