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concerns are supported by quantitative evidence. It thus focuses on key economic indicators, such as costs, competitiveness and … European experience shows that the worries about the costs and competitiveness losses induced by climate regulation are usually …
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The goal of the present paper resides in the comparative analysis of the statistical FAOSTAT data and information in the last 25 years, for the EU countries and other European countries, completed with data and information from the well known literature and from webographics, refering to the...
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The European Union (EU) has redefined the energy sphere in Europe over the last three decades. Transnational policies targeting liberalization and integration, energy efficiency, renewables, carbon pricing, and energy security have led to major steps forward in terms of a more secure,...
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The Great Tōhoku-Earthquake and the following nuclear meltdown in Fukushima called the world's attention to Japans' energy and climate policy. Japan is one of the biggest emitters of greenhouses gases in the world and still far away from reaching its Kyoto target. Emissions trading systems have...
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Reducing greenhouse gas emissions not only lowers expected damages from climate change but also reduces the risk of catastrophic impacts. However, estimates of the social cost of carbon, which measures the marginal value of carbon dioxide abatement, often do not capture this risk reduction...
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Abstract Reducing greenhouse gas emissions not only lowers expected damages from climate change but also reduces the risk of catastrophic impacts. However, estimates of the social cost of carbon, which measures the marginal value of carbon dioxide abatement, often do not capture this risk...
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The paper compares the effects of market-based and command-and-control climate policies on the direction of technical change and the prevention of environmental disasters. Drawing on the model proposed in Acemoglu et al. (2012, American Economic Review), we show that market-based policies...
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Asset pricing and climate policy are analyzed in a global economy where consumption goods are produced by both a green and a carbon-intensive sector. We allow for endogenous growth and three types of damages from global warming. It is shown that, initially, the desire to diversify assets...
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Extreme weather events have significant adverse costs for individuals, firms, communities, regional, and national …-change-induced component of these costs. We use EEA to aggregate the global economic damage from extreme weather events that is attributable to … Attributable Risk (FAR) for extreme events, and combine these FAR estimates with data on the socio-economic costs of these events …
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Extreme weather events have significant adverse costs for individuals, firms, communities, regional, and national …-change-induced component of these costs. We use EEA to aggregate the global economic damage from extreme weather events that is attributable to … Attributable Risk (FAR) for extreme events, and combine these FAR estimates with data on the socio-economic costs of these events …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014242787