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Did the Japanese Patient Follow the Doctor's Orders? Mostly No! A Public Choice Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Schemes in Japan Before and after the Earthquake
Rudolph, Sven - 2013
The Great Tōhoku-Earthquake and the following nuclear meltdown in Fukushima called the world's attention to Japans …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092105
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Unconventional Determinants of Greenhouse Gas Emissions : The Role of Trust
Carattini, Stefano; Baranzini, Andrea; Roca, Jordi - 2013
Social norms have been included in the theory of collective action to overcome difficulties in explaining why commons may perform better when self-regulated. The role of trust has been identified in several contexts of local social dilemmas, but only recently has been extended to global commons,...
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Unconventional Determinants of Greenhouse Gas Emissions : The Role of Trust
Carattini, Stefano; Baranzini, Andrea; Roca, Jordi - 2016
Social norms have been included in the theory of collective action to overcome difficulties in explaining why commons may perform better when self-regulated. The role of trust has been identified in several contexts of local social dilemmas, but only recently has been extended to global commons,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014156309
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Risk premia and the social cost of carbon : a review
Kousky, Carolyn; Kopp, Robert E.; Cooke, Roger - 2011
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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Risk premia and the social cost of carbon : a review
Kousky, Carolyn; Kopp, Robert E.; Cooke, Roger M. - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009520355
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Preventing environmental disasters : market-based vs. command-and-control policies
Lamperti, Francesco; Napoletano, Mauro; Roventini, Andrea - 2015
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 diversification versus climate action
Hambel, Christoph; Kraft, Holger; Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2020
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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The global costs of extreme weather that are attributable to climate change
Newman, Rebecca; Noy, Ilan - 2022
Extreme weather events have significant adverse costs for individuals, firms, communities, regional, and national economies. Extreme Event Attribution (EEA), a methodology that examines the degree to which anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions had changed the occurrence of specific extreme...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426527
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The Global Costs of Extreme Weather that are Attributable to Climate Change
Newman, Rebecca; Noy, Ilan - 2022
Extreme weather events have significant adverse costs for individuals, firms, communities, regional, and national economies. Extreme Event Attribution (EEA), a methodology that examines the degree to which anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions had changed the occurrence of specific extreme...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014242787
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A fair share : burden-sharing preferences in the United States and China
Carlsson, Frederik; Kataria, Mitesh; Krupnick, Alan J.; … - 2010
in the two largest CO2-emitting countries: the United States and China. We asked respondents about their preferences for … preferences was much stronger in China, suggesting that how mitigation costs are shared across countries is more important there …. -- Climate ; burden-sharing ; fairness ; China ; United States …
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