The problem of the commons is more important to our lives and thus more central to economics than a century ago when … the commons. Within the realm of natural resources, there are special challenges associated with renewable resources …. Critical commons problems are also associated with environmental quality. A key contribution of economics has been the …

We illuminate several important aspects of the nature and causes of growth and institutional change. To do this, we …

organizations: the Bretton Woods Institutions (IMF, World Bank) and MNCs. This piece extends and generalizes "Bargaining to lose …" providing economic models that validate the original conclusions, and exploring its implications for the global commons: the … institutions that better explain the dynamics of the global commons. We show that the permeable state complements other …

I propose a new conceptual framework to disentangle the impacts of weather and climate on economic activity and growth …

We study the impact of climate volatility on economic growth exploiting data on 133 countries between 1960 and 2005. We … conditions less predictable across countries, with important implications for growth. Controlling for concomitant changes in … temperatures, a +1oC increase in temperature volatility causes on average a 0.9 per cent decline in GDP growth and a 1.3 per cent …

(LAC) countries, while also providing comparisons with several regions of the world. Climatic variability is introduced in …

greenhouse gas emissions and hence to climate forcing.This paper explores whether decarbonisation and economic growth are … compatible or whether the world economy needs to grow less to be able to reduce greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to reach net … spectrum that extends from the most optimist version of 'green growth' theories to sceptical 'degrowth' theories. While …

based on models and scenarios of economic growth. Economic growth itself, however, is likely to be affected by climate …, production and consumption patterns. We use a new dynamic, multi-regional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model of the world … economy to answer the following questions: Will climate change impacts significantly affect growth and wealth distribution in …