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Adaptation vs. climate protection : responses to climate change and policy preferences of individuals in China, Germany, and the USA

Schwirplies, Claudia - 2015

This paper investigates the interrelation between adaptation and climate protection efforts of individuals in a cross-country comparison. The theoretical predictions based on a subjective utility framework demonstrate that, at the individual level, private adaptation and climate protection...

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The determinants of voluntary carbon offsetting : a micro-econometric analysis of individuals from Germany and the United States ; conference paper

Schwirplies, Claudia; Ziegler, Andreas - 2014 - Preliminary version

This paper examines the determinants of voluntary individual carbon offsetting, i.e. the financial compensation of emissions from energy use. In contrast to former studies in this field, we particularly consider a comprehensive set of factors that are discussed in the context of voluntary...

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On the interrelation between carbon offsetting and other voluntary climate protection activities : theory and empirical evidencey

Lange, Andreas; Schwirplies, Claudia; Ziegler, Andreas - 2014

This paper provides theoretical and empirical insights on the extent to which the availability of carbon offsetting may substitute the individual use of other carbon-reducing measures. Theoretically, we demonstrate an ambiguous impact of offsetting on the use of other measures and derive...

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Offset carbon emissions or pay a price premium for avoiding them? : a cross-country analysis of motives for climate protection activities

Schwirplies, Claudia; Ziegler, Andreas - 2015

This paper contributes to the economic literature on pure and impure public goods by considering two alternatives for contributing to the public good climate protection: compensating carbon emissions from conventional consumption or paying higher prices for climate-friendly products. We...

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Climate change and industrial policy

Naudé, Wim - 2011

This paper explores the implications of climate change for industrial policy (IP). Five implications are discussed, namely the need for international coordination of IPs; for putting human development, and not emission targets, as the overriding objective of low-carbon IP; of stimulating...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009381960

Modeling Myths : On the Need for Dynamic Realism in DICE and other Equilibrium Models of Global Climate Mitigation

Grubb, Michael - 2020

We analyze and critique how optimizing Integrated Assessment Models, and specifically the widely-used DICE model, represent abatement costs. Many such models assume temporal independence – abatement costs in one period are not affected by prior abatement. We contrast this with three dimensions...

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The Economics of Climate Change

Chi, Joseph; Pellerin, Mathieu; Rodriguez, Jacobo - 2021

This paper summarizes the economics of climate change. We first review the basics of climate science and the historical evolution of greenhouse gas emissions. We then discuss the relation between climate change and economics and assess the economic costs, direct and indirect, of climate change....

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Instrument choice and stranded assets in the transition to clean capital

Rozenberg, Julie; Vogt-Schilb, Adrien; Hallegatte, Stéphane - 2017 - This version: March 2017

To mitigate climate change, some governments opt for instruments focused on investment, like performance standards or feebates, instead of carbon prices. We compare these policies in a Ramsey model with clean and polluting capital, irreversible investment and a climate constraint. Alternative...

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Global demographic change and climate policies

Gerlagh, Reyer; Jaimes, Richard; Motavasseli, Ali - 2017

Between 1950 and 2017, world average life expectancy increased from below-50 to above-70, while the fertility rate dropped from 5 to about 2.5. We develop and calibrate an analytic climate-economy model with overlapping generations to study the effect of such demographic change on capital...

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Emission targets and coalition options for a small, ambitious country : an analysis of welfare costs and distributional impacts for Norway

Fæhn, Taran; Yonezawa, Hidemichi - 2021

domestic income groups. Our example is the EU 2030 policies and Norway’s linking to it. In spite of theoretical ambiguity, the … findings suggest that the tighter the links with the EU, the lower the abatement costs for Norway. The distributional profile … cap-and-trade system without linking to the EU is the least cost-effective option for Norway but also the most progressive …

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