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Gillingham, Kenneth - 2014

Energy efficiency and conservation are considered key means for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and achieving other … energy policy goals, but associated market behavior and policy responses have engendered debates in the economic literature …. We review economic concepts underlying consumer decision making in energy efficiency and conservation and examine related …

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Is Sugar Sweeter at the Pump? The Macroeconomic Impact of Brazil's Alternative Energy Program

Weidenmier, Marc D. - 2015

The recent world energy crisis raises serious questions about the extent to which the United States should increase … oil production and (2) developing one of the world's largest and most competitive sources of renewable energy -- sugarcane … domestic oil production and develop alternative sources of energy. We examine the energy developments in Brazil as an important …

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Renewable Energy Policies and Technological Innovation : Evidence Based on Patent Counts

Johnstone, Nick - 2013

energy. The analysis is conducted using patent data on a panel of 25 countries over the period 1978-2003. It is found that … effective for different renewable energy sources …

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The Social Cost of Carbon Revisited

Pindyck, Robert S. - 2016

An estimate of the social cost of carbon (SCC) is key to climate policy. But how should we estimate the SCC? A common approach is to use an integrated assessment model (IAM) to simulate time paths for the atmospheric CO2 concentration, its impact on global mean temperature, and the resulting...

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Will the Paris Accord Accelerate Climate Change?

Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 2016

gradually, rather than immediately reducing CO2 emissions. The Accord effectively tells dirty-energy producers to "use it or …

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Estimating the Consequences of Climate Change from Variation in Weather

Lemoine, Derek - 2018

I formally relate the consequences of climate change to the time series variation in weather extensively explored by recent empirical literature. I show that reduced-form fixed effects estimators can recover the effects of climate if agents are myopic, if agents' payoff functions belong to a...

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The Biophysical and Economic Geographies of Global Climate Impacts on Agriculture

Baldos, Uris Lantz C. - 2018

This paper explores the interplay between the biophysical and economic geographies of climate change impacts on agriculture. It does so by bridging the extensive literature on climate impacts on yields and physical productivity in global crop production, with the literature on the economic...

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Hedging Climate Change News

Engle, Robert F. - 2019

We propose and implement a procedure to dynamically hedge climate change risk. To create our hedge target, we extract innovations from climate news series that we construct through textual analysis of high-dimensional data on newspaper coverage of climate change. We then use a mimicking...

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Overlapping Climate Policies

Perino, Grischa - 2019

coal, aviation taxes or support programs for renewable energy—that overlap with the wider carbon-pricing system. We develop …

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Winter is Coming : The Long-Run Effects of Climate Change on Conflict, 1400-1900

Iyigun, Murat; Nunn, Nathan; Qian, Nancy - 2021

We investigate the long-run effects of cooling on conflict. We construct a geo-referenced and digitized database of conflicts in Europe, North Africa, and the Near East from 1400-1900, which we merge with historical temperature data. We show that cooling is associated with increased conflict....

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