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Is Radiative Forcing Cointegrated with Temperature? A Further Examination Using a Structural Time Series Approach

Balcombe, Kelvin; Fraser, Iain; Sharma, Abhijit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper re-examines the relationship between radiative forcing and temperatures from a structural time series modelling perspective. The results confirm that cointegration between radiative forcing and temperatures are consis- tent with the data. However, we produce results for which the...

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The Role of Transfer Payments in Mitigating Shocks: Evidence From the Impact of Hurricanes

Deryugina, Tatyana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Little is known about how aggregate economic shocks are mitigated by social safety nets. I use hurricanes as an exogenous shock to the economics of US counties and show that non-disaster government transfers, such as unemployment insurance and public medical spending, increase substantially in...

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Competitiveness and environmental protection: a dirty dilemma

Oliver, Geoffrey; Basak, Rishi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

Environmental authorities are regularly challenged to defend their regulations and policies in terms of how they impose additional costs on business and affect economic competitiveness. This paper discusses the links between environmental protection (and government policies and regulations more...

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Implications of declining discount rates: Climate Change Policy in the UK

Groom, Ben; Hepburn, Cameron; Koundouri, Phoebe; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Discussions about applied Cost Benefit Analysis are incomplete without the thorny issue of discounting emerging at some point. Indeed, since the calculation of Net Present Values (NPV), and hence the efficiency of a project or policy, hinges so crucially upon the level of the discount rate...

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Globalization and Environment: Can Pollution Haven Hypothesis alone explain the impact of Globalization on Environment?

Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

-OECD) country groups and the world as a whole. This paper examines the factor endowment and pollution haven hypotheses that predict …

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Drought Readiness and Anxiety of new and experienced Indian Farmers

Raval, Vishvesh; Vyas, Khyati - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Indian Farmers continue to suffer regularly from Droughts, as a frequent natural disaster and has profound effect individually and collectively. The mental health effects of natural disaster are well known however anxiety and readiness of likely Drought is less well understood. However, in...

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Climate Impacts in Europe - The JRC PESETA II Project

Ciscar, Juan-Carlos; Feyen, Luc; Soria, Antonio; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

(€120 billion). Moving to a 2°C world would reduce annual climate damages by €60 billion, to €120 billion (1.2% of GDP). …

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Determinants of farmers’ preference for adaptation strategies to climate change: evidence from north shoa zone of Amhara region Ethiopia

Mulatu Debalke, Negash - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Studies on climate change adaptation recognize the importance of agro-ecology based research for designing context-specific policies and programs to climate change. This study, therefore, applied a case-study approach to examine farmers’ preference for climate change adaptation strategies and...

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Greenhouse Gas Emissions of China

Mohajan, Haradhan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Every nation of the world confirms that human-related greenhouse gas emissions are the major driver of the present … global climate change. About 20% populations of the world live in China and the emissions of greenhouse gases of it are very … urbanization. China is now the second largest economy in the world, behind the USA but at present it is facing severe environmental …

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Environmental Management in Agriculture – Case of Bulgaria

Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper presents a holistic framework for analysing, assessment and improvement of environmental management in agriculture, and assesses the forms, factors and efficiency of agro-eco-management in Bulgaria during post-communist transition and EU integration. It incorporates an...

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