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Putting Global Governance in its Place
Rodrik, Dani - 2019
In a world economy that is highly integrated, most policies produce effects across the border. This is often believed to be an argument for greater global governance, but the logic requires scrutiny. There remains strong revealed demand for policy and institutional diversity among nations,...
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Uncertainty, Climate Change and the Global Economy
von Below, David - 2008
The paper illustrates how one may assess our comprehensive uncertainty about the various relations in the entire chain from human activity to climate change. Using a modified version of the RICE model of the global economy and climate, we perform Monte Carlo simulations, where full sets of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464221
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Globalization, Government Popularity, and the Great Skill Divide
Aksoy, Cevat G. - 2018
How does international trade affect the popularity of governments and leaders? We provide the first large-scale, systematic evidence that the divide between skilled and unskilled workers worldwide is producing corresponding differences in the response of political preferences to trade shocks....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480715
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Globalization, Governance, and the Returns to Cross-Border Acquisitions
Ellis, Jesse - 2011
Using a sample of control cross-border acquisitions from 61 countries from 1990 to 2007, we find that acquirers from countries with better governance gain more from such acquisitions and their gains are higher when targets are from countries with worse governance. Other acquirer country...
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Cape Verde and Mozambique as Development Successes in West and Southern Africa
de Macedo, Jorge Braga - 2010
This paper applies an interpretation of how globalization and governance (G&G) interact with convergence given Cape … Verde and Mozambique's particular geographical and historical contexts. We hold that development success under globalization … diversification (an indicator of globalization) and income convergence (an indicator of governance) in the sub-regions of West and …
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The IPCC Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) : Explained, Evaluated, Replaced
Welch, Ivo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) are perhaps the most influential economic policy analyses today. My paper evaluates their development, natural associations, logical consequences, and economic identification. All five SSP baseline scenarios are predicting scenarios that historical...
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Climate Change and Downstream Water Quality in Agricultural Production : The Case of Nutrient Runoff to the Gulf of Mexico
Elbakidze, Levan; Xu, Yuelu; Gassman, Philip W.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Nitrogen (N) fertilizer use in agricultural production is a significant determinant of surface water quality. As climate changes, agricultural producers are likely to adapt at extensive and intensive margins in terms of land and per acre input use, including fertilizers. These changes can affect...
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An Assessment of the Energy-Efficiency Gap and its Implications for Climate-Change Policy
Gerarden, Todd D. - 2015
Improving end-use energy efficiency--that is, the energy-efficiency of individuals, households, and firms as they consume energy--is often cited as an important element in efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. Arguments for improving energy efficiency usually rely on the idea that...
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Climate Adaptive Response Estimation : Short And Long Run Impacts Of Climate Change On Residential Electricity and Natural Gas Consumption Using Big Data
Auffhammer, Maximilian - 2018
This paper proposes a simple two-step estimation method (Climate Adaptive Response Estimation - CARE) to estimate sectoral climate damage functions, which account for long- run adaptation. The paper applies this method in the context of residential electricity and natural gas demand for the...
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The Impacts of the Climate Change Levy on Manufacturing : Evidence from Microdata
Martin, Ralf - 2011
We estimate the impacts of the Climate Change Levy (CCL) on manufacturing plants using panel data from the UK production census. Our identification strategy builds on the comparison of outcomes between plants subject to the CCL and plants that were granted an 80% discount on the levy after...
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