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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463767
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460218
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Flexibility of Adjustment to Shocks : Economic Growth and Volatility of Middle-Income Countries Before and After the Global Financial Crisis of 2008
Aizenman, Joshua - 2017
The pronounced and persistent impact of the global financial crisis of 2008 motivates our empirical analysis of the role of institutions and macroeconomic fundamentals on countries' adjustment to shocks. Our empirical analysis shows that the associations of growth level, growth volatility,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455214
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Current Account Adjustment : Some New Theory and Evidence
Ju, Jiandong - 2007
This paper aims to provide a theory of current account adjustment that generalizes the textbook version of the intertemporal approach to current account and places domestic labor market institutions at the center stage. In general, in response to a shock, an economy adjusts through a combination...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465262
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Tropics, Germs, and Crops : How Endowments Influence Economic Development
Easterly, William - 2002
Does economic development depend on geographic endowments like temperate instead of tropical location, the ecological conditions shaping diseases, or an environment good for grains or certain cash crops? Or do these endowments of tropics, germs, and crops affect economic development only through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469605
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The Possibilities For Global Poverty Reduction Using Revenues From Global Carbon Pricing
Davies, James B. - 2011
central case analysis, revenues from globally internalizing carbon pricing rise to 7% and then fall to 5% of gross world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461781
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How Large are the Impacts of Carbon Motivated Border Tax Adjustments
Dong, Yan - 2009
increases, and other country's production decreases compared with the case of no BTAs. With the contraction of world trade flows … caused by the financial crisis, carbon motivated BTAs offer a prospect of a compounding effect in a world which is going …This paper discusses the size of impact of carbon motivated border tax adjustments on world trade. We report numerical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463037
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Global Financial Structure and Climate Change
Whalley, John - 2009
This paper analyzes the medium to long-term implications of global warming for the evolution of global financial structures. Stern (2007) and other related scientific literature reports that greenhouse gas emissions generated by human activities will very possibly lead to global temperature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463760
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Carbon, Trade Policy, and Carbon Free Trade Areas
Dong, Yan - 2008
, forms and possible impacts of each variant. We also speculate as to how the world trading system may evolve in the next few …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464216
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Carbon Motivated Border Tax Adjustments : Old Wine in Green Bottles?
Lockwood, Ben - 2008
as the EU, if making commitments to reduce emissions which go beyond those undertaken in other regions of the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464622