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Can simple government programs effectively promote voluntary initiatives to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions? This paper provides an evaluation of how the Connecticut Clean Energy Communities program affects household decisions to voluntarily purchase "green" electricity, which is electricity...
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world-wide survey of agents involved in international climate policy, we show that the perceived support of different equity …
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fairness and social justice are increasingly voiced by citizens and their governments around the world. Taking a novel "bottom …The legitimacy of the world trading system is under growing attack, as challenges to its conformity with norms of …-related fairness concerns of their citizens. More generally, our findings point to a detailed understanding of real-world perceptions …
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economies, are false or need serious amendment in a world with international trade in goods. Since the three results we … a re-examination may be in order. Specifically, we demonstrate that in an open trading world, but not in a closed …
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This paper shows that greater global spatial correlation of productivities can increase cross-country welfare dispersion by increasing the correlation between a country's productivity and its gains from trade. We causally validate this prediction using a global climatic phenomenon as a natural...
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world real GDP per capita by 7.22 percent by 2100. On the other hand, abiding by the Paris Agreement, thereby limiting the …
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Empirical analyses of climatic event impacts on growth, while critical for policy, have been slow to be incorporated into macroeconomic climate-economy models. This paper proposes a joint empirical-structural approach to bridge this gap for tropical cyclones. First, we review competing empirical...
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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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Climate change effects on agricultural yields will be uneven over the world with a few countries, mostly in high …
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This research explores the origins of loss aversion and the variation in its prevalence across regions, nations and ethnic group. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the evolution of loss aversion in the course of human history can be traced to the adaptation of humans to...
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