In October 1998, we convened scholars, policy makers, and practitionersto review what we know about the processes that affect childdevelopment and how we might wisely increase public and privateinvestments in children to promote both their well-being and theproductivity of the next generation....

This paper deals with marginal cost of transport.

... Thema dieses Grünbuchs ist die Preisgestaltung. Der Schwerpunkt derVerkehrspolitik lag in der Vergangenheit vor allem auf direktenReglementierungsmaßnahmen ...

... this Green Paper explores ways of making transport pricing systems fairer and more efficient - by giving users and manufacturers incentives to adjust their transport behaviour ...

Im Frühjahr 2010 hat die Eurokrise mit dem drohenden Staatsbankrott von Griechenland und Irland einen Höhepunkt erreicht. Durch hohe Milliardenkredite an diese zwei Mitgliedsländer hat die Europäische Union einen Rettungsschirm (750 Mrd. Euro) aufgespannt, unter anderem deshalb, weil...

The paper provides a methodology which is suitable for the analysis of the socialcost of disease and the benefits and cost of health intervention by integrating public healthanalysis and economics. The approach developed in the paper is applied to food-bornediarrhea in Rwanda. The results...

PAGE09 is an updated version of the PAGE2002 integrated assessment model (Hope, 2011a). Thedefault PAGE09 model gives a mean estimate of the social cost of CO2 (SCCO2) of $106 per tonne ofCO2, compared to $81 from the PAGE2002 model used in the Stern review (Stern, 2007). The mainreasons for the...

A new version of the PAGE integrated assessment model, PAGE09, is introduced. The mostimportant scientific, impact, emission and adaptation inputs in the latest default version of themodel, PAGE09 v1.7 are described. The scientific and economic impact results are presented for abusiness as usual...

What would be the effect of CO2 pricing on global oil supply and demand? This paper introduces a model describing the interaction between conventional and non-conventional oil supply in a Hotelling framework and under CO2 constraints. The model assumes that non-conventional crude oil enters the...