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Global Pricing of Carbon-Transition Risk
Bolton, Patrick; Kacperczyk, Marcin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Companies are exposed to carbon-transition risk as the global economy transitions away from fossil fuels to renewable … energy. We estimate the market-based premium associated with this transition risk at the firm level in a cross-section of …. Short-term transition risk is greater for firms located in countries with lower economic development, greater reliance on …
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Carbon Emissions Trading and Environmental Protection : International Evidence
Bai, Jennie; Ru, Hong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study how the implementation of emissions trading systems (ETS) impacts emissions reductions and the usage of renewable energy using a panel sample of the largest 100 countries worldwide. Exploiting the cross-country variations in ETS implementations, we show that ETS adoption materially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435149
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Fighting Climate Change : International Attitudes Toward Climate Policies
Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Fabre, Adrien; Kruse, Tobias; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using new surveys on more than 40,000 respondents in twenty countries that account for 72% of global CO2 emissions, we study the understanding of and attitudes toward climate change and climate policies. We show that, across countries, support for climate policies hinges on three key perceptions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334482
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Institutions and Global Crop Yields
Wuepper, David; Wang, Haoyu; Schlenker, Wolfram; Jain, Meha - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We estimate annual discontinuities in remotely-sensed crop yields at all international land borders and link them to changes in the economic freedom index by the Fraser Institute, a country-level measure of institutional quality. Each point of the ten-point index increases the discontinuity by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322813
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Quantifying Climate Change Loss and Damage Consistent with a Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases
Burke, Marshall; Zahid, Mustafa; Diffenbaugh, Noah; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Climate change is generating demonstrable harm around the world. Political and legal efforts have sought to associate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372415
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The Environmental Bias of Trade Policy
Shapiro, Joseph S. - 2020
This paper documents a new fact, then analyzes its causes and consequences: in most countries, import tariffs and non-tariff barriers are substantially lower on dirty than on clean industries, where an industry's "dirtiness" is defined as its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per dollar of output....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481652
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Global Transportation Decarbonization
Rapson, David S.; Muehlegger, Erich - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
countries, it will face steep obstacles. In other sectors and in the developing world, it's not even in pole position. Global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322899
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International Climate Agreements and the Scream of Greta
Maggi, Giovanni; Staiger, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Current policies directed at mitigating global warming appear unlikely to prevent temperatures from rising to levels that would trigger a precipitous increase in the costs of climate change. Various attempts at international cooperation to avoid this outcome have failed. Why is this problem so...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462728
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Firm Commitments
Bolton, Patrick; Kacperczyk, Marcin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
A growing fraction of companies globally have made commitments to reduce their carbon emissions by a certain date. While the companies that make commitments subsequently reduce their emissions, the effect on overall emissions of companies (including those that do not commit) has been small; the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287345
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Disaster Management
Van Reenen, John; Norris Keiller, Agnes - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
such disasters and adapt to their increased frequency. We examine this issue using a the latest wave of the World … to adapt to climate change both overall and in response to their perceived climate risk. Other aspects of firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576624