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Anticipated International Environmental Agreements

Acikgöz, Ömer T.; Benchekroun, Hassan - 2016

Consider a situation in which countries anticipate an international environmental agreement (IEA) to be in effect sometime in the future. What is the impact of the future IEA on current emissions after its announcement? We show that the answer to this question is ambiguous. We examine four types...

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The voracity effect and climate change: The impact of clean technologies

Benchekroun, Hassan; Chaudhuri, Amrita Ray - 2011

We show that a technological breakthrough that reduces CO2 emissions per output can exacerbate the climate change problem: countries may respond by raising their emissions resulting in an increase of the stock of pollution that may reduce welfare. Using parameter values based on empirical...

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Unilateral emission reductions when there are cross-country technology spillovers

Golombek, Rolf; Hoel, Michael - 2004

With limited participation in an international climate agreement, standard economic analysis suggests that a unilateral action taken by a group of countries in order to reduce its emissions is likely to be undermined by increases in emissions from other countries (carbon leakage). While analyses...

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Transboundary Externalities and Reciprocal Taxes: A Differential Game Approach

Mason, Charles F. - 2017

I investigate the interaction between a country that imports a commodity whose production contributes to a stock pollution, such as electricity, from a country that produces that commodity. If the transboundary externality is priced improperly, the application of a feed-in tariff or border tax...

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Catastrophes and expected marginal utility: How the value of the last fish in a lake is infinity and why we shouldn't care (much)

Nævdal, Eric - 2015

Catastrophic risk is currently a hotly debated topic. This paper contributes to this debate by showing two results. First it shown that the value function in dynamic optimization can have an infinite derivative at some point even if the model specification has functional forms that are finite...

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What social cost of carbon? A mapping of the climate debate

Perrissin Fabert, Baptiste; Dumas, Patrice; Hourcade, … - 2012

Given disparate beliefs about economic growth, technical change and damage caused by climate change, this paper starts with the seeming impossibility of determining a unique time profile of the social costs of carbon as a benchmark for climate negotiations and for infrastructure decisions that...

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Optimal emission policy under the risk of irreversible pollution

Kama, Alain Ayong le; Pommeret, Aude; Prieur, Fabien - 2011

We consider an optimal consumption and pollution problem that has two important features. Environmental damages due to economic activities may be irreversible and the level at which the degradation becomes irreversible is unknown. Particular attention is paid to the situation where agents are...

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Migration and Climate Change in Rural Africa

Cattaneo, Cristina; Massetti, Emanuele - 2015

We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If … migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it … generated by General Circulation model reveal that, ceteris paribus, migration may decline in Ghana and in Nigeria. …

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Natural Disaster, Migration, and Regional Development

Ikazaki, Daisuke - 2015

economic activities and migration. Section 2 introduces a simple matching theory model based on previous studies. This theory …. Results show that once migration and a population drain occur, such fiscal policies might deteriorate the regional economy …

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Ambient Temperature During Gestation and Cold-Related Adult Mortality in a Swedish Cohort, 1915 to 2002

Bruckner, Tim A.; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Smith, Kirk R.; … - 2014

For all climatic regions, mortality due to cold exceeds mortality due to heat. We examine whether cold-related mortality in adulthood varies positively with unusually benign ambient temperature during gestation, using data on over 13,500 Swedes from the Uppsala Birth Cohort Study born in...

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