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econometric advancements, shifting focus to direct measures of biodiversity, filling the knowledge gap on the effect of protected …
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The pace of biodiversity loss requires drastic shifts in conservation efforts that carry substantial costs. We … initiative launched by the Chinese central government in 2017 to enforce biodiversity preservation rules in national nature … reserves. We document that, while improving local biodiversity, the initiative led to a significant increase in bond yields for …
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biodiversity. This paper uses the staggered introduction of protected-area policies between 1985 and 2020 to study the selection of …
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We develop theory and present a suite of theoretically consistent empirical measures to explore the extent to which market intervention inadvertently alters resource allocation in a sequentialmove principal/agent game. We showcase our approach empirically by exploring the extent to which the...
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We explore the effects of physical and regulatory risks related to biodiversity loss on economic activity and asset … values. We first develop a news-based measure of aggregate biodiversity risk and analyze how it varies over time. We also … construct and publicly release several firm-level measures of exposure to biodiversity risk, based on textual analyses of firms …
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This paper discusses the likely evolution of the trade and environment issue in the World Trade Organization after the upcoming ministerial meeting in Singapore this December. It makes a number of points. Progress within the GATT/WTO on this issue looks likely to be slow and painfully...
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By reducing the costs of environmental protection, technological change is important for promoting green growth. This entails both the creation of new technologies and more widespread deployment of existing green technologies. This paper reviews the literature on environmentally friendly...
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The purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept of power density [Watts/m²] into economics. By introducing an explicit spatial structure into a simple general equilibrium model we are able to show how the power density of available energy resources determines the extent of energy...
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Green growth is about making growth resource-efficient, cleaner and more resilient without slowing it. This paper aims at clarifying this in an analytical framework and proposing foundations for green growth. This framework identifies channels through which green policies can potentially...
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of a regulated market for pollution rights (the EU emissions trading scheme) and a voluntary market for the provision of … design considerations take precedence. Both markets also face challenges: volatile prices in the EU emissions scheme and low …
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