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model to investigate the optimal policy response to this risk. Adding the constraint of avoiding a thermohaline circulation …
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The problem of the commons is more important to our lives and thus more central to economics than a century ago when … the commons. Within the realm of natural resources, there are special challenges associated with renewable resources …. Critical commons problems are also associated with environmental quality. A key contribution of economics has been the …
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-parametric tests of behavior consistent with the tragedy of the commons model. Our approach derives testable implications of such … to panel data of Norwegian fishers, we find evidence rejecting the tragedy of the commons model. Significantly, we find … commons.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and residents of developing countries may download this …
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Judged by the principle of intertemporal Pareto optimality, insecure property rights and the greenhouse effect both imply overly rapid extraction of fossil carbon resources. A gradual expansion of demand-reducing public policies -- such as increasing ad-valorem taxes on carbon consumption or...
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Climate change management is a global challenge that requires social science as much as it requires natural science. We provide a brief introduction to the physical science of climate change, written to provide essential background for economists and other social scientists. We also highlight...
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Within the field of environmental economics, the role of technological change has received much attention. The long-term nature of many environmental problems, such as climate change, makes understanding the evolution of technology an important part of projecting future impacts. Moreover, in...
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This paper demonstrates how three important results in environmental economics, true under mild conditions in closed economies, are false or need serious amendment in a world with international trade in goods. Since the three results we highlight have framed much of the ongoing discussion and...
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the distribution for outcomes is fat-tailed. Furthermore, depending on the bound on marginal utility, the index of risk …
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Global climate change poses a threat to the well-being of humans and other living things through impacts on ecosystem functioning, biodiversity, capital productivity, and human health. This paper briefly surveys recent research on the economics of climate change, including theoretical insights...
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, using solar geoengineering as insurance against the risk of tipping points, or using solar geoengineering only as …
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