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Bushnell, James - 2014

Although international programs for carbon offsets play an important role in current and prospective climate-change policy, they continue to be very controversial. Asymmetric information creates several incentive problems, include adverse selection and moral hazard, in offset markets. The...

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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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On a World Climate Assembly and the Social Cost of Carbon

Weitzman, Martin - 2016

This paper postulates the conceptually useful allegory of a futuristic “World Climate Assembly” (WCA) that votes for a single worldwide price on carbon emissions via the basic democratic principle of one-person one-vote majority rule. If this WCA framework can be accepted in the first place,...

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Will the Paris Accord Accelerate Climate Change?

Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 2016

The 2015 Paris Accord is meant to control our planet's rising temperature. But it may be doing the opposite in gradually, rather than immediately reducing CO2 emissions. The Accord effectively tells dirty-energy producers to "use it or lose it." This may be accelerating their extraction and...

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Co-Optimization of Enhanced Oil Recovery and Carbon Sequestration

Leach, Andrew - 2014

In this paper, we present what is to our knowledge the first theoretical economic analysis of CO2- enhanced oil recovery (EOR). This technique, which has been used successfully in a number of oil plays (notably in West Texas, Wyoming, and Saskatchewan), entails injection of CO2 into mature oil...

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Climate Policy Under Cooperation and Competition between Regions with Spatial Heat Transport

Cai, Yongyang - 2018

We build a novel stochastic dynamic regional integrated assessment model (IAM) of the climate and economic system including a number of important climate science elements that are missing in most IAMs. These elements are spatial heat transport from the Equator to the Poles, sea level rise,...

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Linkage of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Systems : Learning from Experience

Ranson, Matthew - 2015

The last ten years have seen the growth of linkages between many of the world's cap-and-trade systems for greenhouse gases (GHGs), both directly between systems, and indirectly via connections to credit systems such as the Clean Development Mechanism. If nations have tried to act in their own...

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The Corrective Tax Versus Liability as Solutions to the Problem of Harmful Externalities

Shavell, Steven - 2010

harmful externalities, its actual use has been limited, mainly to the domain of pollution. Liability, in contrast, has great … importance in controlling harmful externalities. I compare the tax and liability here in theory and suggest that the conclusions … help to explain the observed predominance of liability over taxation, except in the area of pollution. The following …

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Corrective Taxation Versus Liability

Shavell, Steven - 2010

Taxation and liability are compared here as means of controlling harmful externalities. It is emphasized that liability … liability does not require the state to determine expected harm - it requires only that injurers pay for harm that occurs …. However, taxation enjoys an advantage over liability: incentives under liability are diluted to the degree that injurers might …

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Optimal Cleanup and Liability after Environmentally Harmful Discharges

Polinsky, A. Mitchell - 2011

This article studies how liability for environmentally harmful discharges affects the incentives of firms to engage in …

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