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The Distribution of Environmental Damages
Hsiang, Solomon - 2017
empirical investigations. We apply our framework to findings related to the economic impact of air pollution, deforestation, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453831
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Taxes, Permits, and Climate Change
Kaplow, Louis - 2010
This essay revisits the question of instrument choice for the regulation of externalities in the context of climate change. The central point is that the Pigouvian prescription to equate marginal control costs with the expected marginal benefits of damage reduction should guide the design of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462388
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GHG Targets as Insurance Against Catastrophic Climate Damages
Weitzman, Martin L. - 2010
A critical issue in climate-change economics is the specification of the so-called "damages function" and its interaction with the unknown uncertainty of catastrophic outcomes. This paper asks how much we might be misled by our economic assessment of climate change when we employ a conventional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462520
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The Environment and Globalization
Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2003
measures of air pollution such as SO2 concentrations. Perceptions that WTO panel rulings have interfered with the ability of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468604
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Trade and Environment Beyond Singapore
Whalley, John - 1996
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473066
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Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India
Greenstone, Michael - 2011
Using the most comprehensive data file ever compiled on air pollution, water pollution, environmental regulations, and … infant mortality from a developing country, the paper examines the effectiveness of India's environmental regulations. The … air pollution regulations were effective at reducing ambient concentrations of particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461447
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Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on Crop Yields : The Importance of Nonlinear Temperature Effects
Schlenker, Wolfram - 2008
The United States produces 41% of the world's corn and 38% of the world's soybeans, so any impact on US crop yields will have implications for world food supply. We pair a panel of county-level crop yields in the US with a fine-scale weather data set that incorporates the whole distribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464847
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Food Policy in a Warming World
Hsiao, Allan; Moscona, Jacob; Sastry, Karthik - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Do governments systematically intervene in agricultural markets in response to climate shocks? If so, what are the aggregate and distributional consequences? We construct a global dataset of agricultural policies and extreme heat exposure by country and crop since 1980. We find that extreme heat...
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Climatic Constraints on Aggregate Economic Output
Burke, Marshall - 2019
Efficient responses to climate change require accurate estimates of both aggregate damages and where and to whom they occur. While specific case studies and simulations have suggested that climate change disproportionately affects the poor, large-scale direct evidence of the magnitude and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479729
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Pareto-Improving Carbon-Risk Taxation
Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 2020
Anthropogenic climate change produces two conceptually distinct negative economic externalities. The first is an expected path of climate damage. The second, which is this paper's focus, is an expected path of economic risk. To isolate the climate-risk problem, we consider mean-zero, symmetric...
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