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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
the Gulf of Mexico by 0.4%-1.58% relative to the baseline scenario with no climate change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334372
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512032
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Modeling Uncertainty in Climate Change : A Multi-Model Comparison
Gillingham, Kenneth - 2015
The economics of climate change involves a vast array of uncertainties, complicating both the analysis and development of climate policy. This study presents the results of the first comprehensive study of uncertainty in climate change using multiple integrated assessment models. The study looks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457032
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Policies, Projections, and the Social Cost of Carbon : Results from the DICE-2023 Model
Barrage, Lint; Nordhaus, William D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The present study examines the assumptions, modeling structure, and preliminary results of DICE-2023, the revised …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250130
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The 2008 Financial Crisis and the Lack of Retaliatory Trade Intervention
Li, Chunding - 2016
The 2008 financial crisis did not precipitate global retaliatory trade intervention, in seeming contrast to the Great Depression in 1930s. This paper discusses the influence of model structure in optimal tariff (OT) calculations in explaining this puzzle. We emphasize how earlier literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456819
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Level versus Equivalent Intensity Carbon Mitigation Commitments
Tian, Huifang - 2009
Large population / rapidly growing economies such as China and India have argued that in the upcoming UNFCCC … explicit models or experimental design are used to support this claim. Here we use a modeling framework in which countries face …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463280
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China's Participation in Global Environmental Negotiations
Tian, Huifang - 2008
In the paper we discuss China's participation in both the 2009 Copenhagen negotiations on a post-Kyoto global climate … change regime currently under way and out beyond Copenhagen in further negotiations likely to follow. China is now both the …. In the Copenhagen negotiation, there will be strong pressure on China to take on emissions reduction commitments and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464187
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Improved Transportation Networks Facilitate Adaptation to Pollution and Temperature Extremes
Barwick, Panle Jia; Donaldson, Dave; Li, Shanjun; Lin, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
records from the world's largest payment network, this research compiles daily travel flows and documents that China's rapid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388818
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Scenarios for the Transition to AGI
Korinek, Anton; Suh, Donghyun - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We analyze how output and wages behave under different scenarios for technological progress that may culminate in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), defined as the ability of AI systems to perform all tasks that humans can perform. We assume that human work can be decomposed into atomistic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512109
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Electoral Competition with Fake News
Grossman, Gene M. - 2019
Misinformation pervades political competition. We introduce opportunities for political candidates and their media supporters to spread fake news about the policy environment and perhaps about parties' positions into a familiar model of electoral competition. In the baseline model with full...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480353