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This paper distinguishes relative risk aversion and resistance to intertemporal substitution in climate risk modelling …. Stochastic recursive preferences are introduced in a stylised numeric climate-economy model using preliminary IPPC 1998 scenarios …
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This paper evaluates energy tax reform in the Netherlands between 1988 and 2002 from a climate change perspective. A …
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The purpose of this paper is to compare the effect of different domestic climate policy instruments under asymmetric … with an emission tax regime. The climate policy instruments considered in this paper are tradable emission permits with …
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therefore important to incorporate factors influencing technological change in climate policy analyses. This paper studies … climate policy when there are technology spillovers between countries, and there is no instrument that (directly) corrects for … are better off in the tax case than in the quota case. Next we study two types of international climate agreements with …
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. Climate change can be expected to have an effect on this attractiveness and will subsequently alter patterns of demand. An … study. Data on the climate, beach length and indicators of cultural, natural resource and economic attractiveness of the … destination countries are used in the regression analysis. Optimal climate values were calculated and a climate index was used to …
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sunny yet mild climate, shun climes that are too hot or too cold. A country's tourists' aversion for poverty and distance … can be predicted by that country's average per capita income. The preferred holiday climate is the same for all tourists …, independent of the home climate. However, tourists from hotter climates have more pronounced preferences. …
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This study uses the hedonic approach to measure the amenity value of climate in Germany. Unlike in earlier research … undertaken to determine whether the coefficients describing the impact of climate variables are homogenous across these areas …. Evidence suggests that German households are compensated for climate amenities mainly through hedonic housing markets. Given …
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In this paper, the reaction of firms to the introduction of environmental charges in a given industry is analysed. Firms may decide either to relocate their plants abroad or to adopt a new environmental-friendly technology. The latter can be either developed by investing in R&D or obtained by...
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This paper focuses on the link between the group co-operation and the unilateral commitment behaviour of some countries in the presence of global environmental problems. As we consider that this last behaviour occurs when bargaining failed, we call it a precautious commitment. We also show that...
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This paper analyses environmental fiscal policy within a two-sector endogenous growth model with elastic labour supply. Pollution is modelled as a side product of production. The framework allows us to analyse the consequences of an environmental tax on the economic dynamics. Both transitional...
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