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Global Pricing of Carbon-Transition Risk

Bolton, Patrick; Kacperczyk, Marcin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Companies are exposed to carbon-transition risk as the global economy transitions away from fossil fuels to renewable … energy. We estimate the market-based premium associated with this transition risk at the firm level in a cross-section of …. Short-term transition risk is greater for firms located in countries with lower economic development, greater reliance on …

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Cross Country Fairness Considerations and Country Implications of Alternative Approaches to a Global Emission Reduction Regime

Tian, Huifang - 2012

The UNFCCC process of negotiating multilateral carbon emissions reductions thus far has focused on approximately equiproportional cuts in annual carbon emissions by country along the lines of the Kyoto Protocol agreement. But now, with the objective of involving large developing countries such...

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Carbon Motivated Regional Trade Arrangements : Analytics and Simulations

Dong, Yan - 2009

This paper presents both analytics and numerical simulation results relevant to proposals for carbon motivated regional trade agreements summarized in Dong & Whalley(2008). Unlike traditional regional trade agreements, by lowing tariffs on participant's low carbon emission goods and setting...

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Projections and Uncertainties About Climate Change in an Era of Minimal Climate Policies

Nordhaus, William D. - 2016

Climate change remains one of the major international environmental challenges facing nations. Up to now, nations have to date adopted minimal policies to slow climate change. Moreover, there has been no major improvement in emissions trends as of the latest data. The current study uses the...

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Will the Paris Accord Accelerate Climate Change?

Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 2016

Finally we question the standard use of infinitely-lived, single-agent models, which assume, unrealistically, intergenerational altruism in determining optimal abatement policy. Their prescriptions can differ, potentially dramatically, from those needed to correct the negative climate...

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Carbon Emissions Trading and Environmental Protection : International Evidence

Bai, Jennie; Ru, Hong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study how the implementation of emissions trading systems (ETS) impacts emissions reductions and the usage of renewable energy using a panel sample of the largest 100 countries worldwide. Exploiting the cross-country variations in ETS implementations, we show that ETS adoption materially...

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Policy Evaluation in Uncertain Economic Environments

Brock, William A. - 2003

This paper develops a decision-theoretic approach to policy analysis. We argue that policy evaluation should be conducted on the basis of two factors: the policymaker's preferences, and the conditional distribution of the outcomes of interest given a policy and available information. From this...

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Fighting Climate Change : International Attitudes Toward Climate Policies

Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Fabre, Adrien; Kruse, Tobias; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Using new surveys on more than 40,000 respondents in twenty countries that account for 72% of global CO2 emissions, we study the understanding of and attitudes toward climate change and climate policies. We show that, across countries, support for climate policies hinges on three key perceptions...

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Comparing the 'Four Pillars' of global economic governance : a critical analysis of the institutional design of the FSB, IMF, World Bank, and WTO

Wouters, Jan; Odermatt, Jed - In: Journal of international economic law 17 (2014) 1, pp. 49-76

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Institutions for High-Quality Growth : What They are and How to Acquire Them

Rodrik, Dani - 2000

This paper opens with a discussion of the types of institutions that allow markets to perform adequately. While we can identify in broad terms what these are, there is no unique mapping between markets and the non-market institutions that underpin them. The paper emphasizes the importance of...

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